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US 9,989,145 B2Granted
Drive selector
AssigneeClub Car, Inc.
InventorRichard Marcus Mansfield
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Abstract
An exemplary drive selector includes a housing, a cam positioned in the housing, a follower coupled to a shaft and in contact with the cam, and a biasing member urging the cam toward the follower. One of the cam and the follower includes at least one protrusion, and the other of the cam and the follower includes a plurality of recesses configured to receive the protrusion. When the protrusion is received in the recess, the force provided by the biasing member resists relative rotation of the cam and the follower.
Claims22
A drive selector system comprising:
- a housing having a cavity defined by a rim extending in an axial direction therefrom;
- an inner body with at least one radially outward extending spline positioned within the cavity;
- a biasing member positioned between the inner body and the rim;
- a cam slidingly engaged with the inner body;
- a cam follower engaged with the cam;
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- a shaft rotatably supported through an aperture formed in the inner body and fixed to the cam follower.
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A drive selector system comprising:
- a housing having a cavity defined by a rim extending in an axial direction therefrom;
- an inner body with at least one radially outward extending spline positioned within the cavity;
- a biasing member positioned between the inner body and the rim;
- a cam slidingly engaged with the inner body;
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- a cam follower engaged with the cam;
- a plurality of arcuate grooves formed within a face of one of the cam and the cam follower;
- a plurality of recesses corresponding to a defined gear formed in each of the plurality of arcuate grooves;
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- at least one protrusion extending away from a face of the other one of the cam and the cam follower.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.