Mazda Motor Corporation

Kouji Tokunaga

Hiroki Uemura

Tomonori Ohtsubo

Toshihiro Matsuoka

Yoshito Hirata

Yohsuke Takenaga

Masanori Taguchi

Daiki Nakata

Akira Michinaga

Norimichi Tanaka

A shift device comprises a shift lever and a shift knob. A driver moves the shift knob in a longitudinal direction when a shift change is conducted between plural traveling positions. The driver moves the shift knob, in a lateral direction, toward a driver's side when the shift change is conducted from a R position to a P position. When viewed from a vehicle rear side, the shift lever located at the traveling positions takes a first position where the shift lever is inclined, relative to its upright state, in a direction of separating its upper end portion with the shift knob from a driver's seat, whereas the shift lever located at the P position takes a second position where the shift lever is in the upright state or in a state which is closer to the upright state than the first position.

Vehicle shift device with lateral and longitudinal motion

A shift lever is configured to take deceleration-requesting positions through its operation in a specified direction from an M-range position for a manual mode. A control is configured such that vehicle's deceleration is larger when an operational quantity of a one-time operation of the shift lever operated toward the deceleration-requesting positions B, B, Bis larger. For example, when the shift lever is operated to the position B, one-stage shift down is performed, when the shift lever is operated to the position B, two-stage shift down is performed, and when the shift lever is operated to the position B, three-stage shift down is performed.

Deceleration control device of vehicle

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Hiroshima, Japan

Kouji Tokunaga