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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Valeo, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
74523 ; 200 6188 ;
Abstract
A polarised manual gearchange lever for a motor vehicle gearbox or the like comprises an upstream part having a knob and carried by a downstream part of the lever, with a slight misalignment between the two parts occurring on manipulation of the knob, together with a force threshold detector which includes electrical sensor means. The force threshold detector comprises a resiliently deformable, or elastic, bar having a head portion, which is fixed with respect to the knob, and a foot portion which is fixed against deflection in a female element that is itself fixed to the downstream part of the lever.