Shift lever device
AssigneeFuji Kiko Co., Ltd.
InventorFumio Kurogane
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Abstract
A shift lever device includes a housing fixed to a vehicle body, and a shift lever swingably supported on the housing. The shift lever includes a tubular member, a rod disposed in the tubular member and having a spring support portion at an axially intermediate part thereof, a spring support sleeve fixedly disposed in the tubular member and having a spring support surface at a lower end thereof, and a spring placed around the rod and between the spring support portion of the rod and the spring support surface of the spring support sleeve so as to urge the rod to lockingly engage at a lower end with the housing.
Claims10
A shift lever device comprising:
- a housing;
- and
- a shift lever swingably supported on the housing;
- the shift lever including:
- a tubular member having a recessed portion at an inner circumferential surface;
- a rod axially movably disposed in the tubular member and having a spring support portion;
- a spring placed around the rod and abuttingly engaged at one of opposite ends with the spring support portion so as to urge the rod to lockingly engage at a lower end with the housing;
- a knob connected to an end of the tubular member;
- a knob button movably installed on the knob and operatively connected to the rod to cause, when pushed, the rod to be pulled upward against the bias of the spring thereby disengaging the rod from the housing to make the shift lever swingable;
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- a spring support sleeve disposed within the tubular member for supporting the other of the opposite ends of the spring, the spring support sleeve having at an outer circumferential surface a projection that is engaged in the recessed portion of the tubular member.
A shift lever device for an automatic transmission of a vehicle comprising:
- a housing fixed to a vehicle body;
- and
- a shift lever swingably mounted on the housing;
- the shift lever including:
- a tubular member;
- a rod axially movably disposed in the tubular member and having a spring support portion at an axially intermediate part thereof;
- a spring support sleeve fixedly disposed in the tubular member and having a spring support surface at a lower end thereof;
- a spring placed around the rod and between the spring support portion of the rod and the spring support surface of the spring support sleeve so as to urge the rod to lockingly engage at a lower end with the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.