Automatic transmission shifter with speed sensitive damping

An electronic shifter assembly, the shifter assembly comprising:

• a shift lever;
• a coupling member pivotably coupling the shift lever to a base of the shifter assembly, the coupling member having a toothed member;
• a speed sensitive damping arrangement housed in the base, the damping arrangement including:
• a housing associated with the base and defining an internal cavity;
• a shaft disposed in the internal cavity and having an end extending from the housing;
• a gear member coupled to the end of the shaft and configured for rotation therewith, the gear member meshingly engaged with the toothed member such that pivotable movement of the coupling member via the shift lever rotates the gear member and the shaft;
• a damping member coupled to the shaft and positioned in the internal cavity such that rotation of the shaft via movement of the shift lever causes relative rotation of the damping member;
• and
• a damping substance packed into the internal cavity and about the damping member such that the damping substance provides resistance to movement of the damping member;
• wherein pivotal movement of the shift lever causes the gear member and the damping member to rotate faster than the shift lever such that damping to movement of the shift lever provided by the speed sensitive damping arrangement is proportional to a square of a speed of movement of the shift lever.