Kongsberg Automotive Ab

Mattias Gudasic

A shifter for controlling a transmission of a motor vehicle includes a rotatably mounted actuation element, a sensor assembly including a first element having a plurality of binary sensors and a second element having a trigger device. A control unit determines an angular position of the actuation element based on an input signal from the sensor assembly. The binary sensors and the trigger device are arranged such that each binary sensor corresponds to one trigger line comprising a plurality of trigger elements. The trigger elements are distributed along the trigger line such that at least one the binary sensors is able to detect a presence of a trigger element for each angular position of the actuation element. At least one trigger element from each trigger line together form a trigger pattern, and the trigger pattern is repeated at least twice on the trigger device to initiate a shift command.

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Habo, Sweden

Mattias Gudasic