Patent ID: 6948399

Claim:
A manual gearshift device for providing a shift-up or a shift-down command signal operative to cause an automotive automatic transmission to shift one gear up or down every time of manual operation thereof, said manual gearshift device comprising: a steering wheel having at least a wheel ring and a pair of spokes extending in substantially diametrically opposite directions: a manually operable first gearshift switch having a first actuation capable of pivotally turning about an axis extending substantially horizontal in a transverse direction when said steering wheel is in a neutral position, said manually operable first gearshift switch being installed to said spoke at an obverse side of said steering when so as to be actuated to provide either one of said shift-up command signal and said shift-down command signal when said first actuator is operated toward a reverse side of said steering wheel; and a manually operable second gearshift switch having a second actuator capable of pivotally turning about an axis spatially orthogonal with said axis for said first actuator of said manually operable first gearshift switch, said manually operable second gearshift switch being installed to said steering wheel at said reverse side of said steering wheel so as to be actuated to provide another one of said shift-up command signal and said shift-down command signal, when said second actuator is operated toward said obverse side of said steering wheel.