Patent ID: 8720294

Claim:
A shifting apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a main shaft; a shifting lever installed to slide in a straight line and pivot along the main shaft; and a gate plate limiting a reciprocation path of the shifting lever such that the shifting lever reciprocates on a single path while sliding in a straight line and pivoting along the main shaft, the gate plate including a gate pattern having a plurality of shift ranges arranged in a line on the reciprocation path; wherein the gate pattern of the gate plate is formed in such a manner that a D range among the plurality of shift ranges is discriminated from other shift ranges in the plurality of shift ranges, and the D range is set in such a manner that the shifting lever forms consecutive displacements with respect to the gate plate; and the gate pattern of the gate plate includes: a first section formed as a straight portion, in which the other shift ranges except the D range among the plurality of shift ranges are sequentially disposed at a predetermined distance from each other; a second section formed as a straight portion, in which the D range is arranged, wherein the second section is disposed to deviate from the first section and is substantially parallel to the first section; and a connection section which is inclined to connect the first and second sections, a guide wing protruding from a side surface of a slide portion of the shifting lever, in order to pivot the shifting lever along the connection section when the shifting lever is moved from the first section to the second section through the connection section; and a pivot guide installed to come in contact with the guide wing, when the guide wing is moved in a straiht line along the main shaft, and pivot the slide portion on the main shaft; wherein the guide wing and the pivot guide include inclined surfaces, respectively, which are opposite to each other and come in surface contact with each other, and, while the inclined surface of the guide wing is moved along the inclined surface of the pivot guide, the shifting lever is moved along the connection section.