Parking brake apparatus for a vehicle
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorHwan Chul Kim
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Abstract
A parking brake apparatus of a vehicle, includes: a support plate fixed on a vehicle; a ratchet including a gear unit including a plurality of teeth and provided adjacent to the support plate; an operation lever connected to a rotation shaft passing through the ratchet, wherein the rotation shaft is rotatable in operation of the operation lever; and a pawl coupled to the operation lever, and including an edge portion elastically in contact with the teeth, wherein the operation lever is provided with a locking jaw for preventing contact between the pawl and the gear unit, wherein the locking jaw is provided between the gear unit and the pawl.
Claims11
A parking brake apparatus of a vehicle, the parking brake apparatus comprising:
- a support plate fixed on a vehicle;
- a ratchet including a gear unit, wherein the gear unit includes a plurality of teeth and the ratchet is provided adjacent to the support plate;
- an operation lever connected to a rotation shaft passing through the ratchet, wherein the rotation shaft is rotatable in operation of the operation lever;
- and
- a pawl coupled to the operation lever, and including an edge portion elastically in contact with the teeth,
- wherein the operation lever is provided with a locking jaw for preventing contact between the pawl and the gear unit,
- wherein the locking jaw is provided between the gear unit and the pawl, and
- wherein the locking jaw is formed by cutting a portion of a side surface of the operation lever and then bending the cut portion.
A parking brake apparatus of a vehicle, the parking brake apparatus comprising:
- a support plate fixed on a vehicle;
- a ratchet including a gear unit, wherein the gear unit includes a plurality of teeth and the ratchet is provided adjacent to the support plate;
- an operation lever connected to a rotation shaft passing through the ratchet,
- wherein the rotation shaft is rotatable in operation of the operation lever;
- and
- a pawl coupled to the operation lever, and including an edge portion elastically in contact with the teeth,
- wherein the operation lever is provided with a locking jaw for preventing contact between the pawl and the gear unit,
- wherein the locking jaw is provided between the gear unit and the pawl, and
- wherein the locking jaw is formed of a plurality of pins protruding from an internal surface of the operation lever.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.