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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2000
Dale A. Beattie, Muskegon, MI (US);
Robert D. Brock, Grand Haven, MI (US);
Robert A. DeJonge, West Olive, MI (US);
Grand Haven Stamped Products, division of JSJ Corporation, Grand Haven, MI (US);
Abstract
A shifter is provided for shifting a vehicle transmission between an automatic shifting mode that includes the automatically shifting gear positions of park, reverse, neutral, drive, and low drive, and a manual-shifting mode including upshift and downshift gear positions. The shifter includes a base, a lever carrier pivoted to the base for movement along a center shift path and side shift paths, and a shift lever pivoted to the lever carrier for movement between the different shift paths. The lever carrier has notches corresponding to the gear positions, and the shift lever has a pawl operably engaging the notches to control movement of the shift lever between the automatically shifting gear positions on the center shift path. The pawl is disengaged when the shift lever is moved into the side-located shift paths.