Shift device
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
InventorsTomonori Hayase, Koji Imai, Tomoaki Asai, Kota Nishida, Yohei Nakano, Yosuke Murakami, Munetoshi Makimura
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Abstract
In this shift device, in a case in which an external force has acted on a lever when an operating mechanism is causing the lever to pivot, a clutch mechanism permits rotation of a first detent plate with respect to a second detent plate, such that pivoting of the lever is permitted. Note that a restraining mechanism urges the lever toward a shift position. This enables to the restraining mechanism to urge the lever separately to the clutch mechanism, thereby enabling the degrees of freedom for setting a biasing load on the lever by the restraining mechanism to be increased.
Claims10
A shift device comprising:
- a shift body that is moved to change a shift position;
- an urger configured to urge the shift body toward a shift position;
- an operator that is capable of being operated;
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- a connector including a first connecting section provided at a shift body side of the connector and a second connecting section provided at an operator side of the connector, and urging the shift body separately from the urger, the connector connecting the shift body to the operator upon operation of the operator such that the shift body is moved while the first connecting section and the second connecting section are moving as an integral unit and the urger is urging the shift body, and the first connecting section being moved to a rotation axis direction of the shift body from the second connecting section due to an external force acting on the shift body in a case in which the operator is being operated such that connection of the shift body to the operator is released.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.