Patent ID: 8532894

Claim:
A shifting range sensing device comprising: an electronic communication unit that includes: a housing fixed to an outside of an external bracket of a shift lever; a magnet being disposed in the housing and rotatable in a forward-backward direction therein wherein the magnet pivotally engaged with the housing via a rotary fixing pin pivots with rotation of the shift lever in the forward-backward direction; and a Hall sensor sensing the forward-backward direction movement of the magnet; and a microswitch electrically connected with the electronic communication unit and engaged to a side of the shift lever, wherein the microswitch is turned on/off in accordance with a left-right rotation of the shift lever, and two arc-shaped slots formed to the housing and symmetrical with respect to the rotary fixing pin; wherein the microswitch transmits on/off signal to the electronic communication unit and the electronic communication unit transmits information sensed by the Hall sensor and the on/off signal received from the microswitch to a transmission controller; wherein the electronic communication unit further includes a power transmission assembly that transmits a rotational displacement of the shift lever as a rotational displacement of the magnet while the magnet rotates with respect to the rotary fixing pin with the forward-backward rotation of the shift lever; and wherein the power transmission assembly has: a connecting rod integrally connected with the magnet and protruding outward from the housing through one of the two arc-shaped slots; and a connection groove through which the connecting rod is inserted in the shift lever, wherein the connection groove is formed to the shift lever.