Patent ID: 7650812

Claim:
A shift lever comprising: a lever main body which is hollow and which can rotate around one of a longitudinal direction intermediate portion thereof and a proximal end side thereof; a moving body provided within the lever main body so as to be movable along a longitudinal direction of the lever main body; a knob graspably mounted to a distal end portion of the lever main body, an attachment hole, which communicates with an interior of the lever main body, being formed in the knob; an operation member at least a portion of which is mounted one of directly and indirectly to the knob so as to be reciprocatingly movable at an inner side of the attachment hole, and due to the operation member moving in a going direction toward an inner side of the knob, the operation member abuts the moving body and moves the moving body toward a longitudinal direction proximal end side of the lever main body, and due to the operation member moving a predetermined amount in at least one direction of the reciprocal movement, the operation member impacts a predetermined region of the knob that interferes with the operation member such that movement of the operation member in said going direction is stopped; and an elastic member provided at at least one of the operation member and the predetermined region, and in a state in which the predetermined region interferes with the operation member, the elastic member is present between the operation member and the predetermined region and elastically deforms when said operation member impacts said predetermined region of the knob such that impact noise is prevented.