Delta Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Mazda Motor Corporation

Keita Nishimo

Yoh Yamazaki

Ichiro Yamamoto

Yuji Shiwa

Tetsuya Obata

Akira Michinaga

A shift lever includes a lever main body and a shift knob located at a distal end of the main body. The lever main body has a lever shaft and a push rod located in the lever shaft. The shift knob has a button for unlocking that receives a pushing manipulation force in a direction intersecting the push rod, a holder fixed to the lever shaft for holding the button, and a converter that converts a momentum in a pushing manipulation direction of the button into a momentum in an axial direction of the push rod to shift the push rod. The converter has a pushed surface to be pushed by the button, the pushed surface occupying only a region of the converter that is away from a central axis of the push rod in a releasing direction that is opposite to a pushing direction.

Shift lever

An automatic transmission shifter includes: a shifter body; a shift lever; a control switch unit for controlling the shift lever; and a switch-unit holding member holding the control switch unit. The switch-unit holding member is attached to the shifter body. The control switch unit has a shifter body-based positioning portion configured to be positioned with respect to the shifter body during an operation of attaching the switch-unit holding member to the shifter body.

Automatic transmission shifter

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Hiroshima, Japan

Keita Nishimo