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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2006
Michael Sickart, Heimsheim, DE;
Michael Sickart, Heimsheim, DE;
Dr Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A selector device for an automated or automatic transmission, in particular of a motor vehicle, has a selector lever for selecting automatic shift stages and gears of the transmission. It being possible to move the selector lever from a stable initial position into a plurality of directly adjacent labile selector positions for selecting the automatic shift stages and the gears, from which labile selector positions, the selector lever automatically returns into the initial position. The selector device further has a display for visualizing the currently engaged gear and/or the currently activated automatic shift stage. To increase operating comfort, the selector lever can also be moved from the initial position into a stable rest position, from which the selector lever can be moved only in the direction of the initial position.