20150159750 | SHIFTING LEVER DEVICE FOR ACTUATING A VEHICLE GEARBOX - A gearshift lever assembly for actuating a vehicle transmission, having a mounting, a gearshift lever moveably supported on the mounting and which can be moved to predefined gearshift lever positions, a blocking device that can be moved to predefined blocking device positions, in which the gearshift lever can be locked to the mounting in a first gearshift lever position by means of the blocking device, a release mechanism, comprising a switch that responds to magnetic fields and a magnet, the spacing of which to one another can be varied by moving the blocking device such that, in the first gearshift lever position, the switch can be activated by the magnetic field of the magnet when the blocking device is in a first blocking device position, and at least one shielding element between the magnet and the switch can be placed in a positioned and removed from this position, by means of which the switch can be shielded from the magnetic field of the magnet in at least one other gearshift lever position of the predefined gearshift lever positions of the gearshift lever. | 06-11-2015 |