Device for controlling a gearbox
AssigneeTeleflex Automotive France SAS
InventorsGeorges Rapin, Jean-Pierre Baz
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Abstract
A device for controlling a gearbox, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising fixed permanent magnets, mounted on a gearbox casing and cooperating by magnetic attraction or repulsion with a mobile permanent magnet mounted on a transmitter member driving into rotation or translation a shaft for selecting and/or changing gears, in order to define stable gear selecting or changing positions.
Claims14
A device for controlling a gearbox, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising at least one mobile permanent magnet displaceable by a control lever in front of a group of fixed permanent magnets borne by a support and cooperating by magnetic attraction or repulsion with the mobile magnet in order to define at least one position of the lever and to compensate the play of the lever in this position, wherein the mobile permanent magnet is borne by a transmitter means driving the end of a shaft for selecting or changing gears, emerging from the casing of the gearbox and wherein the group of fixed permanent magnets is borne by the casing of the gearbox.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.