Shifting control system for automotive automatic power transmission with neuron computer with refined data sampling and shifting pattern recollection characteristics

Claim 1

In an automotive vehicle: an automatic transmission shiftable in speed ratios; means for detecting a plurality of predetermined parameters related to driving conditions in which said automotive vehicle is involved and generating a plurality of output signals indicative of said plurality of predetermined parameters detected, respectively; means for modifying some of said plurality of output signals and generating modified output signals; switch means manually operable by a driver of said automotive vehicle; a programmable computer based control unit operatively coupled with said detecting means, said modifying means and said switch means, said programmable computer based control unit being operative according to associatron logic or neuron logic and including means for forming driving pattern data out of said plurality of output signals and said modified output signals and storing said driving pattern data correlated to an output of said switch means; means for updating said driving pattern data under a predetermined condition of said automotive vehicle; and means for recollecting said driving pattern data upon receiving said output signals and said modified output signals which generally represent said driving pattern data; and means responsive to said driving pattern data recollected for effecting shift control of said automatic transmission.