Gear shift lever apparatus of electronic manual transmission for vehicle
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorsEun Sik Kim, Jeong Seop Lee
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Abstract
A gear shift lever apparatus of an electronic manual transmission for a vehicle may include a spherical gear shift lever installed in a console to be rotated in leftward and rightward selecting directions and in forward and rearward shifting directions, a lever guide unit installed in the spherical gear shift lever and the console, for guiding rotation of the spherical gear shift lever when the spherical gear shift lever is rotated in the selecting directions and the shifting directions, and a lever sensor unit installed in the spherical gear shift lever and the console, for detecting a neutral position and/or a selected gear shaft stage of the spherical gear shift lever.
Claims18
A gear shift lever apparatus of an electronic manual transmission for a vehicle, comprising:
- a spherical gear shift lever installed in a console to be rotated in leftward and rightward selecting directions and in forward and rearward shifting directions;
- a lever guide unit installed in the spherical gear shift lever and the console, for guiding rotation of the spherical gear shift lever when the spherical gear shift lever is rotated in the selecting directions and the shifting directions;
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- a lever sensor unit installed in the spherical gear shift lever and the console, for detecting a neutral position and/or a selected gear shift stage of the spherical gear shift lever among gear shift stages,
- wherein the lever sensor unit includes:
- a lower end center magnet installed at a center of a lower end of the spherical gear shift lever;
- an attractive force generating member fixedly installed on a bottom surface of the console facing the lower end center magnet, for applying an attractive force with the lower end center magnet;
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- a three-dimensional sensor for detecting a position of the lower end center magnet when the spherical gear shift lever is selecting-rotated and/or shifting-rotated to detect the neutral position and/or the selected gear shift stage of the spherical gear shift lever, and
- wherein the three-dimensional sensor is embedded in the attractive force generating member and an upper surface of the three-dimensional sensor is exposed to the outside of the attractive force generating member to face the lower end center magnet, and the gear shift lever apparatus of an electronic manual transmission for a vehicle has only one sensor which is the three-dimensional sensor.
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