Mazda Motor Corporation

Etsuo Shirai

Kazuhiko Moriyama

Hiroaki Nagamatsu

Wataru Kuwahara

Kenji Sakamoto

A shift lever assembly for an automotive transmission including a lower shift lever for engaging and operating an automotive transmission to select a desired gear stage. An upper shift lever is detachably coupled to the lower lever and serves for manual actuation to effect movement of the lower shift lever. One of the upper and lower shift levers terminates at one end in a shaft. The other of the upper and lower shift levers terminates at one end in a bore into which is received the shaft. The coupling is effected by a fastener that cams and secures the shaft in the bore. The coupling may be easily detached.

Shift lever assembly and method of assembling

A gear type transmission apparatus comprises a transmission case containing a plurality of gear trains and an output shaft to which an output of an engine is transmitted through the gear trains and provided with an opening at an upper portion thereof, a cover member mounted on the upper portion of the transmission case to cover the opening, a holder member formed separately from the cover member and fixed on an under surface of the cover member to be positioned at the inside of a contacting face of the cover member provided for coming into contact with an upper end face of the transmission case, and a shift rod supported by the holder member to be movable in a direction along its axis at a position above the output shaft for causing the gear trains to be in operation to transmit the output of the engine selectively.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Etsuo Shirai