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US 5,893,439 AGranted
Parking mechanism for a vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorDong Hoon Park
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Abstract
Disclosed is a parking mechanism comprising a parking stopper which is integrally formed on one end of a parking rod of the parking mechanism, mounted within a parking groove in a transmission case, biased by an elastic member, and operated by the operation of a shift lever; and a parking gear, a plurality of which protrude from a transfer gear for the engagement with the parking stopper when the same is moved through a penetrating hole formed in the transmission case, thereby parking a vehicle.
Claims1
A parking mechanism for a vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission, comprising:
- a parking rod cooperating with a shift lever, said parking rod having an axis and linearly moving along the axis;
- a parking stopper integrally formed on one end of the parking rod and disposed within a parking groove of a transmission case, said parking stopper having the same axis as that of said parking rod and linearly moving along the axis;
- a flange formed between said parking rod and said parking stopper;
- a parking gear formed on a transfer gear for engagement with said parking stopper when said parking stopper linearly moves toward said parking gear along the axis by an operation of the shift lever;
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- an elastic member biasing the flange in a direction where the parking stopper is released from the engagement with said parking gear when the shift lever is released from a parking position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.