Input device for transmission
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorKenji Fujii
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Abstract
An input device for a transmission includes, a knob with which an operator performs rotation and press operations, a rotation detector for detecting that the knob is rotated, a press detector for detecting that the knob is pressed, and a controller for performing, based on results of detection by the rotation detector and the press detector, a range shift between a first forward travel range where a gear shift operation performed by the operator is not accepted and a second forward travel range where the gear shift operation is accepted, and for performing a gear shift in the second forward travel range.
Claims6
An input device for a transmission, comprising:
- a knob for performing rotation and press operations;
- a rotation detector for detecting that the knob is rotated;
- a press detector for detecting that the knob is pressed;
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- a controller for performing, based on results of detection by the rotation detector and the press detector, a range shift between a first forward travel range where a gear shift operation is not accepted and a second forward travel range where the gear shift operation is accepted, and for performing a gear shift in the second forward travel range,
- wherein the controller is configured to, in the first forward travel range, when a predetermined operation is performed with the knob, perform a range shift to the second forward travel range, and, in the second forward travel range, when the knob is rotated with the knob being pressed, perform a gear shift based on the rotation of the knob.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.