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US 2015/0101438 A1Published application
Drive selector
AssigneeClub Car, Inc.
InventorRichard Marcus Mansfield
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Abstract
An exemplary drive selector includes a housing, a cam positioned in the housing, a follower coupled to a shaft and in contact with the cam, and a biasing member urging the cam toward the follower. One of the cam and the follower includes at least one protrusion, and the other of the cam and the follower includes a plurality of recesses configured to receive the protrusion. When the protrusion is received in the recess, the force provided by the biasing member resists relative rotation of the cam and the follower.
Claims21
A drive selector system comprising:
- a housing having a cavity defined by a rim extending in an axial direction therefrom;
- an inner body with at least one radially outward extending spline positioned within the cavity;
- a biasing member positioned between the inner body and the rim;
- a cam slidingly engaged with the inner body;
- and
- a cam follower engaged with the cam.
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A drive selector system for a vehicle comprising:
- a selector housing having an inner wall;
- a cavity formed by an arcuate rim extending from the inner wall;
- an inner body having at least one radially outward projecting spline and a through hole formed therein;
- a bias member, a cam and a cam follower positioned adjacent one another within the cavity;
- a pivot shaft rotatably positioned through each of the selector housing, inner body, bias member, cam and fixed to the cam follower;
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- an input crank coupled to one end of the pivot shaft and an output crank coupled to the other end of the pivot shaft, the output crank operably coupled to a transmission with at least one forward gear, a neutral gear and a reverse gear.
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A method comprising:
- moving an input crank between first and second positions, wherein the first position corresponds to a first gear of a transmission and the second position corresponds to a second gear of a transmission;
- biasing a cam follower and a cam toward one another;
- moving the cam follower with respect to the cam between first and second positions in response to the moving of the input crank, wherein the cam follower and cam have one of either a protrusion and a groove slidingly engaged with one another during the moving;
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- wherein the groove includes first and second recessions formed therein corresponding to first and second gears of the transmission.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.