Patent ID: 8186241

Claim:
A shifting device for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle comprising: a gear-shift lever which can be moved in an automatic shift track to select gear-shift positions; a locking mechanism for blocking adjusting movements of the gear-shift lever into at least one of the gear-shift positions and/or out of at least one of the gear-shift positions; a release button arranged on the gear-shift lever to release the blocking action of the locking mechanism; a drive connection established between the release button and two blocking elements of the gear-shift lever which are arranged redundantly on the gear-shift lever with the freedom to move up and down such that an actuation of the release button produces a synchronous stroke of the two blocking elements of the gear shift lever, wherein each of the blocking elements of the gear-shift lever cooperates with one of two arresting gates, each arresting gate comprising gate sections assigned to the gear-shift positions, wherein the two arresting gates are formed as a common component in such a way that the gate sections of the two arresting gates merge continuously with each other; and a blocking mechanism for blocking the gear-shift lever in a Park position, said blocking mechanism comprising two redundantly arranged blocking elements, each blocking element of the blocking mechanism cooperating with one of two blocking gates, each blocking gate comprising a gate section assigned to the Park position such that when the Park position is present, the blocking elements of the blocking mechanism are aligned with the gate sections assigned to the Park position and can engage therein to produce a blocking effect.