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US 11,236,822 B2Granted
Shift device
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Saisakusho
InventorKunihiro Morimura
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Abstract
In a shift device, a first mechanism of a restriction mechanism restricts rotation of a knob in one direction, and a second mechanism of the restriction mechanism restricts rotation of the knob in another direction. Drive devices of the restriction mechanism are configured solely by a solenoid of the first mechanism and a solenoid of the second mechanism. This thereby enables configuration of the restriction mechanism to be simplified.
Claims3
A shift device comprising:
- a shift body that is movable in one direction or another direction, in a range between a restriction shift position of one direction side and a restriction shift position of another direction side, to change a shift position;
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- a restriction mechanism that includes a first mechanism with an action toward a lateral direction of the shift body to restrict movement of the shift body in the one direction and to permit movement of the shift body in the other direction, and a second mechanism with another action toward the lateral direction of the shift body to restrict movement of the shift body in the other direction and to permit movement of the shift body in the one direction, wherein the lateral direction of the shift body is orthogonal to a height of the shift body,
- wherein, in a case in which movement of the shift body in the one direction has been restricted, by the first mechanism, at a physical position of the shift body which is beyond the restriction shift position of the one direction side and at which the shift position of the shift body has not been set when the shift body has moved within the range, a controller sets the shift position of the shift body so as to be at the restriction shift position of the one direction side.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.