Patent ID: 7334496
Filing Date: 2008-02-26
Classification: F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A shifting device for controlling the gear selection of a motor vehicle transmission, the shifting device comprising: a housing; a gearshift lever, which is arranged within a recess of the housing and can be pivoted in at least one vertical plane; a cover plate, which follows the pivoting movement of the gearshift lever due to its coupling with the gearshift lever; a scanning device with at least one sensor arranged stationarily at the housing and a linear signal transmitter unit at the cover plate, said signal transmitter unit includes a plurality of mark points that sweep over the scanning range of the one sensor during the movement of the cover plate; and a processor unit, wherein the signals picked up by the sensor from the plurality of mark points sweeping past the one sensor are sent to the processor unit for evaluation of gear positions and for forwarding.