Patent ID: 6282975
Filing Date: 2001-09-04
Classification: F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
An automotive vehicle comprising a powertrain including a multi-gear transmission that is placed in a selected gear by a shift control that is remote from the transmission, and a one-piece bracket for the shift control, the bracket having a top wall and laterally spaced apart side walls depending from the top wall and extending rearward into covering relation to laterally opposite sides of the shift control, a face plate spanning the side walls of the bracket in covering relation to the shift control, and a shift member for operating the shift control to shift the transmission, the shift member extending from the shift control through an opening at the face plate to provide a grip by which a driver of the vehicle can operate the shift control, in which an operative coupling that includes a sheathed cable couples the shift control to the transmission to correlate different transmission gears to different positions of the shift member, at least a portion of the length of the sheathed cable extends along one of the side walls of the bracket, and a fastener grounds the sheathed cable to that one side wall.