Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Keisuke Kameyama

Kenji Nakanishi

Naomi Asahina

Yutaka Inamura

Mizuho Maruyama

In a shift device, as a result of lower sliding projections of a lever moving slidingly against lower sliding plates of soft materials, the slidability of the lever is improved. Moreover, as a result of restricting projections of the lever being abutted against stoppers of the soft materials, noise generated when a sliding motion of the lever is restricted is reduced. Additionally, because the lower sliding plates and the stoppers are formed integrally with each other, the structure can be simplified.

Shift device

In a shift device, a lever is able to slide in a front-rear direction relative to a housing, and an FFC electrically connects a sensor substrate of the housing to an operating substrate of the lever. Here, the lever is moved slidingly in the front-rear direction, which is on a perpendicular direction side relative to a width direction of the FFC. Because of this, a reduction in the durability of the FFC can be inhibited.

At a shift lever device, at a time when a lever is rotated in a left-right direction, a joint of the lever moves a joint tube of a link in an up-down direction. Moreover, at a time when the lever is rotated in a front-rear direction, a link operating portion of the lever rotates an operation tube of the link in the front-rear direction around the joint side. Here, at the time when the lever is rotated in the left-right direction, the joint is moved in the left-right direction with respect to the joint tube. Therefore, the need to provide parts between the lever and the joint can be eliminated, and a number of parts can be reduced.

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Keisuke Kameyama