Gear Transmission
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsYusuke Morita, Toshifumi Yasuda
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Abstract
A detent mechanism 70 is provided for fixing a shift drum 58 in position at a rotation operation position where shift gears 36, 37 become engageable. The detent mechanism 70 includes a positioning rotation portion 71 formed in the shift drum 58, a positioning arm 72 engageable with a positioning action portion 74 formed in the positioning rotation portion 71 for fixing the shift drum 58 at a rotation position corresponding to a rotation operation position of the shift drum 58, and a positioning spring 73 for urging the positioning arm 72 for its engagement with the positioning action portion 74. The positioning arm 72, as being rotatably supported to a speed changing operation shaft 61 for rotating the shift drum 58, is extended from a speed changing operation shaft 61.
Claims4
A gear transmission comprising:
- a plurality of shift gears;
- a plurality of shifters slidably supported on a shifter support shaft and engaged, respectively, with the plurality of shift gears;
- a shift drum having a drum axis parallel with a support axis of the shifter support shaft and having, at an outer circumference portion, a plurality of shifter operational cam portions to which the plurality of shifters are engaged, respectively;
- and
- a speed changing operation shaft operably coupled to the shift drum;
- wherein, as the shift drum is rotated about the drum axis by a rotation operation of the speed changing operation shaft, the plurality of shifters are slid by the shifter operational cam portions, thereby to engage/disengage the shift gears to/from speed changing gears for setting speeds;
- a detent mechanism for fixing the shift drum in position at a rotation operation position where the shift gear becomes engageable;
- wherein the detent mechanism comprises:
- a positioning rotation portion formed in the shift drum;
- a positioning arm engageable with a positioning action portion formed in the positioning rotation portion for fixing the positioning rotation portion at a rotation position corresponding to the rotation operation position of the shift drum;
- and
- a positioning spring configured to urge the positioning arm for its engagement to the positioning action portion;
- wherein the speed changing operation shaft is provided in parallel juxtaposition with the drum axis;
- and
- wherein the positioning arm is rotatably supported to the speed changing operation shaft, and is extended from the speed changing operation shaft to the positioning rotation portion during rotation of the speed changing operation shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.