Mercedes-Benz Aktiengesellschaft

Friedhelm Nebel

Hartmut Nied

Heinz Alber

In a gearbox of a motor vehicle, a shift console is installed with a shifter shaft unit as a preassembled module in a housing opening of a transmission housing that houses a driveshaft. The shift housing part has a mounting flange extending transversely to a geometric bearing axis with a flange opening flush with the geometric bearing axis. One bearing system is located in the vicinity of the flange opening, and the other bearing system is located on an end of shift console opposite the mounting flange. A shaft end of the shifter shaft adjacent the bearing system located in the vicinity of flange opening includes the connection for operating the shifter shaft. The transmission housing has a housing opening coverable externally by the mounting flange for inserting the shift console into the transmission housing. The shift console with the shift finger and the shift rail which has the shifting groove are located inside the transmission housing, with the geometric bearing axis being perpendicular to a rotational axis of the driveshaft.

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Friedhelm Nebel