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US 6,282,975 B1Granted
Mounting bracket for automatic transmission shift control
AssigneeNavistar International Transportation Corp.
InventorsTrevor Harrison, Erik C. Wilson
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AssigneeNavistar International Transportation Corp.
InventorsTrevor Harrison, Erik C. Wilson
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A one-piece mounting bracket (30) for mounting an automatic transmission shift control in the cab of a truck has a top wall (34) and laterally spaced apart side walls (36, 38) depending from the top wall and extending rearward into covering relation to laterally opposite sides of the shift control. A face plate (70) spans the side walls of the bracket in covering relation to the shift control, and a shift lever (62) for operating the shift control to shift the transmission extends from the shift control through an opening (72) at the face plate to provide a grip by which a driver of the vehicle can operate the shift control. The side walls are symmetric about an imaginary medial plane that perpendicularly bisects an imaginary plane occupied by the top wall. The side walls also have symmetric hole patterns (50, 52) providing shift cable attachment features that are symmetric about the imaginary medial plane. The bracket may be used in either a right- or left-hand drive vehicle.
An automotive vehicle comprising a powertrain including a multi-gear transmission that is placed in a selected gear by a shift control that is remote from the transmission, and a one-piece bracket for the shift control, the bracket having a top wall and laterally spaced apart side walls depending from the top wall and extending rearward into covering relation to laterally opposite sides of the shift control, a face plate spanning the side walls of the bracket in covering relation to the shift control, and a shift member for operating the shift control to shift the transmission, the shift member extending from the shift control through an opening at the face plate to provide a grip by which a driver of the vehicle can operate the shift control, in which an operative coupling that includes a sheathed cable couples the shift control to the transmission to correlate different transmission gears to different positions of the shift member, at least a portion of the length of the sheathed cable extends along one of the side walls of the bracket, and a fastener grounds the sheathed cable to that one side wall.
An automotive vehicle that has a powertrain including a multi-gear transmission that is placed in a selected gear by a remote shift control disposed for manual operation by a driver of the vehicle, and a one-piece bracket for mounting the shift control in the vehicle, the bracket comprising a top wall and laterally spaced apart side walls depending from the top wall and extending rearward for covering laterally opposite sides of the shift control, the portions of the side walls that are in covering relation to laterally opposite sides of the shift control comprising top margins that are spaced apart laterally to define an opening, and fasteners that associate with the top wall of the bracket to fasten the bracket to a panel of the vehicle via the top wall of the bracket;
An automotive vehicle that has a powertrain including a multi-gear transmission that is planed in a selected gear by a remote shift control disposed for manual operation by a driver of the vehicle, and a one-piece bracket for mounting the shift control in the vehicle, the bracket comprising a top wall and laterally spaced apart side walls depending from the top wall and extending rearward for covering laterally opposite sides of the shift control, the portions of the side walls that are in covering relation to laterally opposite sides of the shift control comprising top margins that are spaced apart laterally to define an opening, and fasteners that associate with the top wall of the bracket to fasten the bracket to a panel of the vehicle via the top wall of the bracket;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.