Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideki Tsutsui

Daisuke Kobayashi

Masao Nakayama

Hirotaka Sunada

Shintaro Nakano

A clutch is provided with a drive-side rotational body and a driven-side rotational body, which can move in the axial direction between a coupled position and a decoupled position. The driven-side rotational body has a groove having a helical portion and an annular portion that is deeper than the helical portion. The driven-side rotational body is urged toward the coupled position by an urging member. The driven-side rotational body is moved to the decoupled position against the urging force of the urging member by insertion of a pin into the helical portion. A projection is provided on the tip of the pin, and a recessed groove for accommodating the projection when the pin is inserted into the helical portion is provided in the bottom surface of the helical portion.

Growing community of inventors

Yokkaichi, Japan

Hideki Tsutsui