Smart touch type electronic auto-shift lever

• US 8,989,975 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2013
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Eun-Sik
• Primary Examiner(s): Wright, Dirk
• Application Number:
  US14/106,746
• Publication Number:
  US 20140283639A1
• Time in Patent Office: 465 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 701/56
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2063/423 Range indicators for automatic transmissions, e.g. showing selected range or mode
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 59/08 Range selector apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/2003 Electrical actuator

Abstract

A smart touch type electronic auto-shift lever may include a shift stage controller which is connected to a controller of an electronic auto-transmission of a vehicle and a touch screen which is arranged on a console of a vehicle and is connected to the shift stage controller to display information of a shift pattern received from the shift stage controller and transmit input information produced by a touch to the shift stage controller. The shift stage controller generates the information of the shift pattern including the shift pattern and transmits it to the touch screen, and generates stage shift information allotted to the input information received from the touch screen and transmits it to the controller of the electronic auto-transmission of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A smart touch type electronic auto-shift lever, comprising:

a shift stage controller which is connected to a controller of an electronic auto-transmission of a vehicle; and

a touch screen which is arranged on a console of a vehicle and is connected to the shift stage controller to display information of a shift pattern received from the shift stage controller and transmit input information produced by a touch to the shift stage controller,

wherein the shift stage controller generates the information of the shift pattern including the shift pattern and transmits it to the touch screen, and generates stage shift information allotted to the input information received from the touch screen and transmits it to the controller of the electronic auto-transmission of the vehicle.

2. The smart touch type electronic auto-shift lever of claim 1, wherein the shift stage controller:

stores the shift stage information of shift stages including P stage, R stage, N stage, D stage, M stage, + stage and −

stage, location information including a location where a shift stage contained in the shift stage information is to be displayed and relative location information including relative locations between respective shift stages contained in the shift stage information, as pre-set information;

generates the information of the shift pattern based on the shift stage information, the location information and the relative location information; and

transmits the information of the shift pattern to the touch screen.

3. The smart touch type electronic auto-shift lever of claim 2, wherein the relative location information is configured by storing the relative locations of the respective shift stages for the P stage, R stage, N stage, D stage and M stage to be arranged in sequence among the shift stages contained in the shift stage information, as pre-set information.

4. The smart touch type electronic auto-shift lever of claim 2, wherein the shift stage controller provides information of a button for varying pattern to the touch screen, the touch screen displays the button for varying the pattern based on the information of the button for varying the pattern, and the shift stage controller controls the shift pattern to be varied in accord with input of the button for varying the pattern.

5. The smart touch type electronic auto-shift lever of claim 3, wherein the shift stage controller generates the stage shift information and outputs it only when the input information received from the touch screen is input in sequence along a sequence arrangement of P stage, R stage, N stage, D stage and M stage.

6. The smart touch type electronic auto-shift lever of claim 2, wherein:

the relative location information includes a first relative location information and a second relative location information, which set different shift patterns, respectively, as pre-set information,

the shift stage controller provides information of a button for converting a mode to the touch screen,

the touch screen displays the button for converting the mode based on the information of the button for converting the mode, and

the shift stage controller controls the relative location information to be cross-converted into one of the first relative location information or the second relative location information in accord with input of the button for converting the mode.

7. The smart touch type electronic auto-shift lever of claim 3, wherein the shift stage controller provides information of a button for varying pattern to the touch screen, the touch screen displays the button for varying the pattern based on the information of the button for varying the pattern, and the shift stage controller controls the shift pattern to be varied in accord with input of the button for varying the pattern.