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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:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
May. 06, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
John J Bair, Plainwell, MI (US);
Assignee:
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05G / ; B60K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
7447 / ;
Abstract
A directly mounted shift lever assembly (30) for a manually shifted vehicular transmission (16) for minimizing shift lever-induced jumpout. A counterweight (52) is mounted to the shift lever (31) in a forwardly extending manner to move the center of gravity (CG) of the resultant shift lever assembly forward of the shift lever Y--Y pivot axis (34).