Pop-up type electronic auto shift lever

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9303755-B2
Application number	US-201314098483-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 5, 2013
Priority date	Aug 21, 2013
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

A pop-up type electronic auto shift lever is disposed in a console of a vehicle and interworks with an automatic transmission control unit of an automatic transmission. The pop-up type electronic auto shift lever may include a pop-up lever, a pop-up part and a controller which controls the pop-up lever and the pop-up part. The controller controls the pop-up lever to be inserted into the console of the vehicle when the pop-up lever is not used, and controls the pop-up lever to protrude outside the console of the vehicle when the pop-up lever is used.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pop-up type electronic auto shift lever, which is disposed in a console of a vehicle, and interworks with an automatic transmission control unit of an automatic transmission, the pop-up type electronic auto shift lever comprising:
a pop-up lever which includes a gear shift stage input unit including a touch screen, generates a gear shift stage input signal according to a touch input of the gear shift stage input unit, and outputs the generated gear shift stage input signal;
a pop-up part which includes a pop-up motor, is disposed at a lower end of the pop-up lever, and pops up the pop-up lever when being driven; and
a controller which controls the pop-up lever and the pop-up part, provides gear shift stage information to the gear shift stage input unit of the pop-up lever, generates a shift signal based on the gear shift stage input signal received from the gear shift stage input unit, and transmits the generated shift signal to the automatic transmission control unit of the vehicle;
wherein the controller controls the pop-up lever to be inserted into the console of the vehicle by driving the pop-up part when the pop-up lever is not used, and controls the pop-up lever to protrude outside the console of the vehicle by driving the pop-up part when the pop-up lever is used, and
wherein the controller interworks with a collision detection sensor of the vehicle, and drives the pop-up motor during a vehicle collision to control the pop-up lever to be inserted into the console.

2. The pop-up type electronic auto shift lever of claim 1 , wherein the pop-up lever includes:
a head part which includes the gear shift stage input unit;
a supporting part which is disposed under the head part, and hinge-coupled to the head part, and supports the head part to be rotatable in a vertical direction; and
an internal rotation motor which is embedded inside the head part, rotates the head part when being driven, and is controlled by the controller.

3. The pop-up type electronic auto shift lever of claim 2 , wherein the head part further includes an informal display unit which includes one or more touch screens, and is disposed on a side surface of the head part; and
wherein the gear shift stage input unit is disposed at a lower surface of the head part, wherein when a touch is input from the information display unit, the controller drives the internal rotation motor to control the head part to rotate by about 180°, to upwardly expose the gear shift stage input unit.

4. The pop-up type electronic auto shift lever of claim 1 , further comprising:
a rotation torque motor which is disposed between the pop-up lever and the pop-up part in a vertical direction and connects the pop-up lever and the pop-up part, wherein the rotation torque motor is controlled by the controller, and when the rotation torque motor operates, the pop-up lever is rotated in a horizontal direction.

5. The pop-up type electronic auto shift lever of claim 4 , wherein:
a body of the rotation torque motor is coupled with and fixed to a lower end of a supporting part of the pop-up lever;
a rod of the rotation torque motor is fixedly coupled to an upper end of the pop-up part, and
the pop-up lever and the pop-up part are connected with each other.

6. The pop-up type electronic auto shift lever of claim 4 , wherein the controller interworks with a navigation system provided in the vehicle, receives steering guide information of the navigation system, and controls the rotation torque motor to be rotated in a direction corresponding to a direction of the steering guide information.

7. The pop-up type electronic auto shift lever of claim 1 , wherein the controller controls the internal rotation motor so as for the head part to be rotated by about 90° when the pop-up lever is first popped-up.

8. The pop-up type electronic auto shift lever of claim 1 , wherein the head part further includes a speaker unit including one or more speaker means, and the controller provides one or more of the emotion information and the notification information to the speaker unit.

9. The pop-up type electronic auto shift lever of claim 1 , wherein:
in the gear shift stage information provided by the controller, relative information between each gear shift stage and an adjacent gear shift stage is preset and stored in setting a plurality of elements of gear shift stage information of the vehicle;
when a slide input is performed on the gear shift stage input unit, the gear shift stage input unit outputs slide input information including a slide direction, and the controller provides the gear shift stage input unit with information about the adjacent gear shift stage corresponding to the direction of the slide input information, and
when the touch input is performed on the gear shift stage input unit, the gear shift stage input unit generates the gear shift stage input signal and outputs the generated gear shift stage input signal.

10. The pop-up type electronic auto shift lever of claim 1 , further comprising:
a pop-up button unit which is disposed on the console of the vehicle and outputs a pop-up signal during an input, wherein the controller is connected with the pop-up button unit to drive the pop-up part to pop up the pop-up lever when receiving the pop-up signal.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Eun-Sik

Classifications

• Y10T74/2014

  Manually operated selector [e.g., remotely controlled device, lever, push button, rotary dial, etc.] · CPC title

• F16H59/105 Primary

  consisting of electrical switches or sensors · CPC title

• F16H2063/423

  Range indicators for automatic transmissions, e.g. showing selected range or mode · CPC title

• B60K20/04 Primary

  floor mounted · CPC title

• F16H59/10

  comprising levers · CPC title