Smart touch type electronic auto shift lever

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9593765-B2
Application number	US-201314099757-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 6, 2013
Priority date	Apr 29, 2013
Publication date	Mar 14, 2017
Grant date	Mar 14, 2017

Abstract

An electronic auto shift lever, and more particularly, a smart touch type electronic auto shift lever configures a shift operating unit of the auto shift lever. The auto shift lever includes a touch screen and provides a predetermined shift pattern to a user to perform a shift operation by an input through the touch screen, in which the user is allowed to arbitrarily change the shift pattern to provide various shift patterns corresponding to a user's taste, in an auto shift lever of an automatic transmission vehicle.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A smart touch type electronic auto shift lever, comprising:
a touch screen mounted on a console of a vehicle; and
a shift stage controlling unit that generates shift pattern information and transmits the generated shift pattern information to the touch screen for controlling stage shifting of an electronic auto transmission of the vehicle to correspond to input information input from the touch screen,
wherein the shift stage controlling unit previously sets and stores shift stage information including P, R, N, D, M, +, and − stages, positional information including positions where the shift stages included in the shift stage information are to be displayed, and relative positional information among the respective stages, which are included in the shift stage information, the relative positional information being set such that the P, R, N, D, and M stages are sequentially placed,
wherein the shift stage controlling unit generates shift pattern information based on the shift stage information, the positional information, and the relative positional information and transmits the generated shift pattern information to the touch screen,
wherein the touch screen displays the shift pattern information received from the shift stage controlling unit and transmits input information to the shift stage controlling unit when a touch input occurs,
wherein the shift stage controlling unit generates stage shift information allocated corresponding to the input information received from the touch screen and transmits the generated stage shift information to a control unit of the electronic auto transmission of the vehicle, and
wherein:
the shift stage controlling unit sets the relative positional information among the shift stages as first relative positional information and second relative positional information in advance;
the shift stage controlling unit sets and stores mode switching button information in advance and provides the mode switching button information to the touch screen;
the touch screen displays a mode switching button based on the mode switching button information; and
the shift stage controlling unit cross-switches the relative positional information to any one of the first relative positional information and the second relative positional information when the mode switching button is input.

2. The smart touch type electronic auto shift lever of claim 1 , wherein the shift stage controlling unit generates and outputs stage shift information corresponding to a finally input shift stage only when the input information received from the touch screen is sequentially input according to placement of the shift stage starting from any one of the P, R, N, D, and M stages which are sequentially placed.

3. The smart touch type electronic auto shift lever of claim 1 , wherein:
the shift stage controlling unit generates and outputs stage shift information corresponding to the R stage when the P and R stages are sequentially input;
the shift stage controlling unit generates and outputs stage shift information corresponding to the N stage when the P, R, and N stages are sequentially input;
the shift stage controlling unit generates and outputs stage shift information corresponding to the D stage when the P, R, N, and D stages are sequentially input; and
the shift stage controlling unit generates and outputs stage shift information corresponding to the M stage when the P, R, N, D, and M stages are sequentially input.

4. The smart touch type electronic auto shift lever of claim 1 , wherein:
the shift stage controlling unit sets and stores pattern changing button information in advance and provides the pattern changing button information to the touch screen;
the touch screen displays the pattern changing button based on the pattern changing button information; and
the shift stage controlling unit controls the shift pattern to be changed when the pattern changing button is input.

5. The smart touch type electronic auto shift lever of claim 4 , wherein:
the shift stage controlling unit determines the touch input on the touch screen when the pattern changing button is input;
the shift stage controlling unit moves the position of the shift stage corresponding to the position of an initial touch point to a final position of the touch point when a touch input of one point on the touch screen is present and the position of the corresponding touch point is moved;
the shift stage controlling unit increases the size of the shift stage when determining that touch inputs of two points on the touch screen are present and a distance between respective touch points is increased; and
the shift stage controlling unit decreases the size of the shift stage when determining that touch inputs of two points on the touch screen are present and the distance between respective touch points is decreased.

6. The smart touch type electronic auto shift lever of claim 4 , wherein:
the shift stage controlling unit determines the touch input on the touch screen when the pattern changing button is input;
the shift stage controlling unit moves the position of the shift stage corresponding to the position of the initial touch point to the final position of the touch point when the touch input of one point on the touch screen is present and the pattern changing button is continuously input and the position of the corresponding touch point is moved;
the shift stage controlling unit increases the size of the shift stage when determining that touch inputs of two points on the touch screen are present and the pattern changing button is continuously input and the distance between respective touch points is increased; and
the shift stage controlling unit decreases the size of the shift stage when determining that touch inputs of two points on the touch screen are present and the pattern changing button is continuously input and the distance between respective touch points is decreased.

7. A smart touch type electronic auto shift lever, comprising:
a touch screen mounted on a console of a vehicle; and
a shift stage controlling unit that generates shift pattern information and transmits the generated shift pattern information to the touch screen for controlling stage shifting of an electronic auto transmission of the vehicle to correspond to input information input from the touch screen,
wherein the shift stage controlling unit previously sets and stores shift stage information including P, R, N, D, M, +, and − stages, positional information including positions where the shift stages included in the shift stage information are to be displayed, and relative positional information among the respective stages, which are included in the shift stage information, the relative positional information being set such that the P, R, N, D, and M stages are sequentially placed,
wherein the shift stage controlling unit generates shift pattern information based on the shift stage information, the positional information, and the relative positional information and transmits the generated shift pattern information to the touch screen,
wherein the touch screen displays the shift pattern information received from the shift stage controlling unit and transmits input information to the shift stage controlling unit when a touch input occurs,
wherein the shift stage controlling unit generates stage shift information allocated corresponding to the input information received from the touch screen and transmits the generated stage shift information to a control unit of the electronic auto transmission of the vehicle, and
wherein:
the shift stage controlling unit sets and stores the pattern changing button information and the mode switching button information in advance and provides the pattern changing

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Eun Sik
• Lee Jeongseop

Classifications

• F16H59/08 Primary

  Range selector apparatus · CPC title

• Y10T74/2003

  Electrical actuator · CPC title

• F16H2063/423

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

• F16H59/12 Primary

  comprising push button devices · CPC title

• F16H59/02

  Selector apparatus · CPC title