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US 5,626,057 AGranted
Change lever supporting structure
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Atsumitec
InventorsYukio Nishigai, Shigeo Matsumoto, Takatoshi Harada
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Abstract
Main and subsidiary levers 24 and 25 forming a change lever are intersected and coupled to each other to form a T-shape. A pair of hemispherical bodies forming a fulcrum member are formed, at their coupled end surfaces, with supporting recesses extended in three directions and fitted to outer peripheral surfaces of the intersected main and subsidiary levers. With this arrangement, it is possible to reliably and easily mount the spherical fulcrum member to the change lever.
Claims6
A change lever supporting structure, comprising:
- a change lever including a main lever having a knob, and a subsidiary lever projected from one side of a lower end portion of said main lever;
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- a spherical fulcrum member having a center at an intersection between axes of both said main and subsidiary levers and attached to said change lever;
- said fulcrum member being supported on a housing of a lever bracket for swinging movement in a select direction and a shift direction of said change lever,
- wherein said main and subsidiary levers are intersected integrally coupled so as to form a T-shape, said fulcrum member is formed by coupling a pair of hemispherical bodies, and said hemispherical bodies are formed at their coupled end surfaces with semi-cylindrical supporting recesses extending in three directions so as to be fitted around outer peripheral surfaces of said main and subsidiary levers wherein each of said hemispherical bodies is formed of synthetic resin by molding, and is provided at an outer periphery of an end portion thereof with an annular chamfer formed during molding.
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