Patent ID: 7900534

Claim:
A shifter for use with a vehicle transmission, comprising: a shift lever having a base end; a holder section comprising a holder body which holds the base end of the shift lever rotatably in first and second directions perpendicular to each other; a cam member formed with a slot-shaped protrusion fitting hole and rotatably held by the holder body a follower shaft coupled to the base end of the shift lever; and a shift-cable connection member formed with a slot-shaped shaft insertion hole and swingably held by the holder section, the shift-cable connection member being adapted to be connectable with a selected one of a shift cable connected to an automatic transmission and a shift cable connected to a manual transmission, wherein the follower shaft is formed to have a distal end connectable with a selection cable connected to the manual transmission, and inserted into the shaft insertion hole to allow the distal end to protrude from the shaft insertion hole, in such a manner that the follower shaft is swingingly moved in conjunction with a tilt movement of the shift lever in the first direction to press an inner surface of the shift-cable connection member defining the shaft insertion hole so as to swingingly move the shift-cable connection member, and the follower shaft being moved inside and along the slot-shaped shaft insertion hole in conjunction with a tilt movement of the shift lever in the second direction, and the base end of the shift lever includes a spherical portion having a protrusion which is fittingly inserted into the slot shaped protrusion fitting hole of the cam member movably in a lengthwise direction of the protrusion fitting hole, in such a manner that the protrusion is moved to press an inner surface of the protrusion fitting hole in conjunction with a rotation of the spherical portion in the first direction so as to rotate the cam member, and moved inside the protrusion fitting hole in a lengthwise direction of the protrusion fitting hole, in conjunction with a rotation of the spherical portion in the second direction.