Selector device for the gearbox of a motor vehicle
AssigneeZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG
InventorAndreas Giefer
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Abstract
A shifting device of a motor vehicle transmission with a selector lever (3) and a kinematic elements (4-9) for transmitting the selection movements to the automatic transmission, wherein the selector lever can be moved in an automatic shift gate for selecting automatic gears and in a sequence shift gate for manually upshifting and downshifting gears. The shifting device (1) has three movement spaces (I, II, III), which are located next to one another and are preferably directed essentially in parallel to one another, and two adjacent movement spaces (I, II and/or II, III) each are provided for different functions.
Claims23
A shifting device of a motor vehicle transmission, the shifting device comprising:
- a selector lever;
- an automatic shift gate and a sequence shift gate, the selector lever being movable in the automatic shift gate for selecting automatic gears and in the sequence shift gate for manually upshifting and downshifting gears;
- moveable elements for transmitting selection movements to the motor vehicle transmission, the shifting device having three movement spaces located next to one another and directed essentially in parallel to one another, two adjacent said movement spaces being provided for different functions;
- a movement shift gate limiting movement of said selector lever and forming only a single said automatic shift gate assigned to a middle one of said movement spaces, said movement shift gate forming only a single said sequence shift gate assigned to one of said outer movement spaces, said movement shift gate forming a connection gate between said automatic shift gate and said sequence shift gate.
A shifting device of a motor vehicle transmission, the shifting device comprising:
- a selector lever;
- an automatic shift gate and a sequence shift gate, the selector lever being movable in the automatic shift gate for selecting automatic gears and in the sequence shift gate for manually upshifting and downshifting gears;
- moveable elements for transmitting selection movements to the motor vehicle transmission, the shifting device having three movement spaces located next to one another and directed essentially in parallel to one another, two adjacent said movement spaces being provided for different functions, said selector lever has a first shift axis in the automatic shift gate and a second shift axis is provided in the sequence shift gate, wherein said selector lever is movable around one of the shift axes only, depending on the shift gate selected.
A shifting device arrangement comprising:
- a selector lever;
- moveable elements connected to said selector lever and defining three movement spaces of said selector, said movement spaces being arranged substantially parallel to each other, two of said movement spaces being arranged on opposite sides of a middle said movement space, said movable elements transmitting individual movement of said selection lever in adjacent said movement spaces for different functions in a transmission;
- a gate portion around said selector lever and defining a first shift gate corresponding with said middle movement space, said gate portion also defining a second shift gate corresponding with one of said two movement spaces, said gate portion defining a connection gate connecting said first shift gate and said second shift gate, said gate portion blocks movement of said selector lever into the other of said two movement spaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.