Saturn Corporation

Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Richard Allen White

David R Peterson

John J Berndtson

Mark T Traxler

Michael Allen Peters

Timothy James Kline

John K Quinlan

Robert Louis Adduci

A vehicle door arrangement is provided including inner and outer panels. The inner panel has a through opening, a tubular grommet which is received in the opening and snap-fittingly secured to the inner panel, and a plurality of electrical conductors extending through the grommet. The through opening in the inner panel extends inwardly from a side edge of the inner panel. The inner panel has at least one ear extending transversely into the opening adjacent the side edge. The grommet is resilient and has a groove which extends inwardly from its outer periphery and whose outwardly facing bottom is shaped substantially complementary to the opening. The ear engages the bottom of the groove and deflects the grommet as the latter is transversely inserted into the opening until the grommet is fully received in the opening and the ear is aligned with a deeper portion of the groove whereupon the grommet, due to its inherent resiliency, returns toward its normal free state position and locks behind the ear to lock the grommet to the panel.

Vehicle door and wire harness arrangement

A manual shift lever for an automatic transmission has a park position and a plurality of drive positions. The shift lever is detented into each position and has both a brake/transmission shift interlock (BTSI) and an ignition interlock which independently inhibit shifting from the park position prior to predetermined operating inputs, such as manipulating the ignition key and/or the brake pedal. A bell crank connected with the interlocks provides the inhibiting structure. To limit the operator input force on the bell crank, a lost motion structure is provided between an operator button on the shift lever handle and an actuator rod and pin which engage the bell crank.

Transmission manual shift lever assembly

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Franklin, TN, United States of America

Richard Allen White