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US 2015/0219207 A1Published application
Transmission shift selector assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorDONALD MORRISSETT
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to various shift selector assemblies having a shift gate with a plurality of indentations corresponding to transmission shift selections. At least one of the indentations is configured to have a flexible depth so as to selectively restrict and accept a pawl pin, thereby mitigating shift position overshoot.
Claims7
A method of mitigating overshoot in a transmission shift selector, comprising:
- forming a shift gate with a plurality of indentations that correspond to different shift selections;
- and
- altering the depth of at least one indentation in the shift gate between a restricted position and a receptive position;
- wherein the restricted position mitigates overshoot in a first direction and wherein the receptive position mitigates overshoot in a second direction.
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A method of mitigating overshoot in a transmission shift selector, comprising:
- moving a spring-loaded retractable plunger relative to one indentation of a shiftgate having multiple indentations of different radial distance from a pivot, producing a greater radial distance from the pivot that admits a pawl pin into the one indentation;
- moving the plunger relative to the one indentation, producing a lesser radial distance from the pivot that restricts the pawl pin from the one indentation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.