Patent ID: 8312787

Claim:
A shift lever assembly with a shift knob comprising: a lower skirt slidably fitted around a shift rod; an upper skirt disposed above the lower skirt and rotatably coupled to the lower skirt to be allowed to make relative rotation therebetween and prevented from making relative upward straight motion therebetween; and a shift knob screwed on an upper end of the shift rod and having an insertion hole to slidably receive the upper skirt moving upward and an elastic member elastically biasing downward the upper skirt; wherein the lower skirt has snap-fit protrusions protruding radially outward to restrict relative the upward straight motion of the upper skirt, and the upper skirt has a circular step around an inner circumference thereof where the snap-fit protrusions are inserted and seated; and wherein the upper skirt includes an inserting member protruding toward the insertion hole and being selectively inserted in the insertion hole, the inserting member being offset from a center axis of the shift rod.