Patent ID: 8485061

Claim:
An operating device for selecting shift stages in a shift-by-wire gearbox, the operating device comprising: a selector lever ( 3 ) being movable between at least one drive gear position and a park position with stable selector lever positions as well as a locking device with a spring-loaded detent pin ( 10 ) and a lock-in gate ( 9 ), an actuator device for actuator-induced movement of the selector lever ( 3 ), the actuator device comprising an actuator-powered disengagement device ( 13 ) whereby the detent pin ( 10 ) and the lock-in gate ( 9 ) are biased, via the disengagement device ( 13 ), from a first relative position, in which the detent pin ( 10 ) engages in a shifting track ( 8 ) of the lock-in gate ( 9 ), into another relative position, in which the detent pin ( 10 ) disengages the shifting track ( 8 ); and the disengagement device ( 13 ) being a device which causes actuator-induced movement of the lock-in gate ( 9 ) relative to a housing base ( 1 ) of the operating device; wherein the lock-in gate ( 9 ) has a return track ( 12 ), and the shifting track ( 8 ) and the return track ( 12 ) intersect with one another, at the park position, and extend at an acute angle, with respect to one another, from the park position.