Mazda Motor Corporation

Hirokazu Nishikado

Keisuke Miyoshi

Yasushi Yanai

A shift lever of a shifting arrangement for manually shiftable automatic transmission is movable between a drive range position in which the transmission is automatically shifted and a manual shift position in which the shift lever is shiftable forward or backward to cause a manual shift of the transmission. The shift lever is brought into engagement with an actuator member when moved to the manual shift position when a lock/release button is depressed before movement of the shift lever to the manual shift position and subsequently released with an intention to cause a manual shift after the movement of the shift lever to the manual shift position. A shift switch is actuated by the actuator member forced by the shift lever in response to operation of the shift lever in the manual shift position.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Hirokazu Nishikado