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AssigneesAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKaoru Tsubouchi, Takeo Yamazaki, Tomio Tachino, Takuya Inaba, Yoshihiro Nakagiri, Hiroshi Uemura, Juichi Shibatani
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A hand brake lever assembly includes a plunger mounted on a support for axial slidable movement and for rotation about its axis and being connected at its one end to a parking brake, a locking mechanism associated with the plunger to retain the plunger in a pulled out position against a returning effort of the parking brake acting thereon and being arranged to be released by rotation of the plunger, a sleeve member secured to the other end of the plunger and having an annular end wall formed with a first annular cam surface and an axial key groove, a handle having a shaft extending therefrom and inserted into the sleeve member, the handle shaft being formed with an axial guide groove and being integrally provided with a cam member which is formed with a second annular cam surface complementary with the first cam surface and is axially slidably coupled within the sleeve member, a first spring for pressing the annular cam surfaces in contact with each other, a release rod axially slidably coupled with the guide groove for rotation with the handle, the release rod being formed at its one end with a key to be brought into engagement with the axial key groove and being provided at its other end with a knob, and a second spring for biasing the knob toward the plunger to disengage the key of the release rod from the axial key groove of the sleeve member.
A hand brake lever assembly for a parking brake, said hand brake lever assembly comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.