Transmission
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShigeru Koyama, Shinichi Kojima
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Abstract
A positioning means for a reverse shifting fork includes a toggle spring for biasing the reverse shifting fork toward one of a reverse position shown by a solid line and a neutral position shown by a dashed line with a dead point set as a boundary between the reverse position and the neutral position, and a stopper pin for stopping the reverse shifting fork in the reverse position and the neutral position against a biasing force of the toggle spring. The toggle spring is a torsional coil spring and is compressed so that a biasing force is generated in a direction to move opposite ends of the spring connected respectively to the reverse shifting fork holder and the reverse shifting fork away from each other, and the distance between the opposite ends is smallest in the dead point.
Claims6
A transmission comprising a reverse shifting fork, a reverse shifting fork holder and a positioning means for positioning the reverse shifting fork swingably supported on the reverse shifting fork holder in a reverse position and a neutral position,
- wherein the positioning means includes a toggle spring for biasing the reverse shifting fork toward one of the reverse position and the neutral position with a dead point set as a boundary between the reverse position and the neutral position, a first stopper means for stopping the reverse shifting fork in the reverse position against a biasing force of the toggle spring, and a second stopper means for stopping the reverse shifting fork in the neutral position against the biasing force of the toggle spring.
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