Patent ID: 8113082

Claim:
An external gear shift for a gear selection in a manual transmission, comprising: a link plate having guide fingers; a selector track; a plurality of shifting tracks; a gearshift/selector lever that is guided in the link plate and movable along the selector track and the plurality of shifting tracks; a measuring sensor adapted to detect an instantaneous position of the gearshift/selector lever, wherein the guide fingers of the link plate are disposed between the plurality of shifting tracks and the selector track and each have flanks oriented obliquely to the plurality of shifting tracks and the selector track, and wherein the measuring sensor generates first and second coordinate values corresponding to position of the gearshift/select lever, the first coordinate value corresponding to the position of the gearshift/selector within the selector track and the second coordinate value corresponding to the position of the gearshift/selector in the direction of the shifting tracks; and a control circuit coupled to the measuring sensor for receiving the first and second coordinate values; and an actuator device coupled to the electronic control circuit, the actuator having first and second degrees of freedom.