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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1990
Keith V Leigh-Monstevens, Troy, MI (US);
David C Peterson, Walled Lake, MI (US);
Automotive Products (USA) Inc., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
Electric control apparatus for a motor vehicle including a push button module to indicate the operator choice of transmission state, an encoder tracking the annular position of the mode select shaft of the transmission and operative to provide a transmission state signal, and a logic module receiving the operator input request from the push button module, receiving a present transmission state signal from the encoder, and operating to shift the transmission to the requested position, provide enabling of the starter motor circuit in response to receipt of a neutral or park transmission state signal from the encoder, and energize the backup lamp circuit in response to receipt of a reverse transmission state signal from the encoder.