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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1997
Robert A. DeJonge, West Olive, MI (US);
Daniel J. Fisher, West Olive, MI (US);
Eric W. Bryant, Grand Haven, MI (US);
Grand Haven Stamped Products, Grand Haven, MI (US);
Abstract
A shifter system for shifting a transmission on a vehicle includes a shifter having a manually-operated shift lever movable between various gear positions, an electrical sensing device on the shifter for sensing positions of the shift lever, and a controller electrically connected to the sensing device and constructed to control shifting of a transmission based on signals from the sensing device indicative of the position of the shift lever. The controller and the sensing device as a system are capable of sensing speed of movement of the shift lever and the controller is programmed to change control of the shifting of the transmission in accordance therewith. In one form, the sensing device includes one of a continuous output potentiometer, a discrete output potentiometer, a membrane potentiometer, and a deformable variable-resistance potentiometer.