Shift position indicating device for automatic transmission

A gear shift position indicating device for use with a shift lever, comprising:

• an opaque plastic case;
• a light conductive structure having a horizontal wall and a vertical wall, the walls being integral with each other;
• first and second groups of projections integrally formed in the horizontal wall, one of said group of projections having indicia representative of gear shift position, a rounded cut formed in the lower edge of the vertical wall, the light conductive structure being embedded in the plastic case by means of monobloc molding, the first and second groups of projections on the horizontal wall being exposed to the outside of the plastic case while the lower edge of the vertical wall is contained within the interior of the plastic case;
• a pointer located within the plastic case below the horizontal wall of the light conductive structure, the pointer being movable with the shift lever;
• light conductive means in the plastic case exposing a lower surface of the horizontal wall to the interior of the plastic case;
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• a light source for illuminating the interior of the plastic case and further illuminating said projections by providing light which passes through the rounded cut in the vertical wall of the light conductive structure, the pointer being illuminated by the light source and visable on the outside of the plastic case through a projection with which it is in registration to indicate shift position.