Operation device and vehicular shifting apparatus using operation device
AssigneeAlps Alpine Co., Ltd.
InventorsYu IGARASHI, Takashi UENOMACHI, Toshio OGAWA, Yoshitsugu WAKITA
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Abstract
An operation device includes a support for pivotally supporting a shift lever, a first movable member configured to be pivotally operated from home position in a direction in conjunction with the shift lever, a pair of permanent magnets supported, at an operation reference position, by the support so as to be opposite the first magnetic body, and first plate springs for biasing the first movable member in a direction in which the first magnetic body moves toward the permanent magnets.
Claims9
An operation device that includes an operation member and a support for pivotally supporting the operation member, and in which the operation member is pivotally shifted to a predetermined position with a click feeling, the operation device, comprising;
- a first movable member supported by the support so as to interlock with a pivotal motion of the operation member;
- a first magnetic body provided with the first movable member;
- a permanent magnet supported by the support so as to be opposite the first magnetic body when the operation member is at an operation reference position of the operation member;
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- an elastic member for biasing the first movable member in a direction in which the first magnetic body moves toward the peiivanent magnet, and
- wherein the operation member is supported at the operation reference position by an attraction force acting between the first magnetic body and the permanent magnet when the operation member is at the operation reference position, and
- wherein the movable member positions the first magnetic body away from the permanent magnet against the attraction force acting between the first magnetic body and the permanent magnet as well as a biasing force of the elastic member when the operation member is pivotally shifted to a first step position, so that the operation member is pivotally shifted to a predetermined position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.