Selector lever assembly for selecting and switching different driving modes in a vehicle transmission
AssigneeSignata GmbH
InventorsCarsten Bode, Jan Szekeres-Kriselius
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Abstract
A selector lever assembly for selecting and shifting to various driving modes in a vehicle transmission may have a rotary switch that is rotatably mounted in a housing, where the driving modes are assigned to the rotational range and separated from one another by a latching contour in a manner that can be felt by a driver, where the rotational movement of the rotary switch can be blocked by a locking contour, and where the locking contour and latching contour are integrally formed on the rotary switch.
Claims14
A selector lever assembly for selecting and shifting to various driving modes in a vehicle transmission, comprising:
- a rotary switch rotatably mounted in a housing,
- wherein the driving modes are assigned along a rotational range, and separated from one another by a latching contour that can be felt by a driver;
- and
- a locking contour configured to selectively block a rotation of the rotary switch,
- wherein the locking contour and latching contour are integrally formed on the rotary switch,
- wherein the integral rotary switch has a disk-shaped body, which has a knob for manipulation thereof formed on a first axial side, and a sleeve formed on a second axial side, with which it can be rotatably mounted on the housing,
- wherein the latching contour has a dedicated spring-loaded latching pin fixed in place on the housing, wherein the latching pin functionally interacts with the latching contour to generate a latching effect that the driver can feel during the rotation of the rotary switch,
- wherein the locking contour is formed by a plurality of stop regions on the disk-shaped body of the rotary switch,
- wherein each stop region has an adjacent recess on the disk-shaped body of the rotary switch, and
- wherein each stop region is connected radially on an outside of the disk-shaped body to a wave-shaped annular contour and radially on an inside of the disk-shaped body to a mechanically stabilizing annular region on the disk-shaped body.
A selector lever assembly for selecting and shifting to various driving modes in a vehicle transmission, comprising:
- a rotary switch rotatably mounted in a housing,
- wherein the driving modes are assigned along a rotational range, and separated from one another by a latching contour that can be felt by a driver;
- and
- a locking contour configured to selectively block a rotation of the rotary switch,
- wherein the locking contour and latching contour are integrally formed on the rotary switch,
- wherein the integral rotary switch has a disk-shaped body, which has a knob for manipulation thereof formed on a first axial side, and a sleeve formed on a second axial side, with which it can be rotatably mounted on the housing,
- wherein the latching contour has a dedicated spring-loaded latching pin fixed in place on the housing, wherein the latching pin functionally interacts with the latching contour to generate a latching effect that the driver can feel during the rotation of the rotary switch, and
- wherein the rotary switch has three stop regions forming the locking contour, with five dedicated locking pins.
A selector lever assembly for selecting and shifting to various driving modes in a vehicle transmission, comprising:
- a rotary switch rotatably mounted in a housing,
- wherein the driving modes are assigned along a rotational range, and separated from one another by a latching contour that can be felt by a driver;
- and
- a locking contour configured to selectively block a rotation of the rotary switch,
- wherein the locking contour and latching contour are integrally formed on the rotary switch,
- wherein the integral rotary switch has a disk-shaped body, which has a knob for manipulation thereof formed on a first axial side, and a sleeve formed on a second axial side, with which it can be rotatably mounted on the housing,
- wherein the latching contour has a dedicated spring-loaded latching pin fixed in place on the housing, wherein the latching pin functionally interacts with the latching contour to generate a latching effect that the driver can feel during the rotation of the rotary switch, and
- wherein the rotary switch has four stop regions forming the locking contour, with four dedicated locking pins.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.