Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Driver interface
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Application No.: US15136212Application Date: 2016-04-22
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Publication No.: US10253872B2Publication Date: 2019-04-09
- Inventor: Anthony Sebastian Riera , Edwin D. Robertson , Charles William Suter , Majed Samhan Mohammed
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Brooks Kushman P.C.
- Agent David Kelley
- Main IPC: F16H61/02
- IPC: F16H61/02 ; F16H59/02 ; F16H61/16 ; F16H63/42 ; F16H59/08

Abstract:
A vehicle driver interface includes a mode selector, such as a shift lever, and two shift paddles. The shift paddles perform different functions according to which driving mode is selected via the mode selector. In a manual mode, driver activation of one of the shift paddles results in an upshifts and driver activation of the other shift paddle results in a downshift. In a snowplow mode, driver activation of one of the shift paddles shifts the transmission to reverse while driver activation of the other shift paddle shifts the transmission to forward.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170307069A1 Driver Interface Public/Granted day:2017-10-26
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