Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Masami Watanabe

Noriyuki Suzuki

Minoru Morikawa

Tomonori Kawachi

Nobuyoshi Yasuhara

Yoshitaka Sato

In a shift lever locking device for an automatic transmission of column type, a drive cam is turned with a key rotor mounted on a steering column, a shift shaft arranged along the steering column is turned by operating a shift lever so that the automatic transmission is shifted to a plurality of positions, a lock part is formed on the shift shaft, a link mechanism provided movably has at least a lever which is swung to operate in a link mode a drive part confronting with the driving cam of the key rotor and a lock member confronting with the lock part of the shift shaft; and an adjusting mechanism is provided for the lever of the link mechanism to adjust the positional relationships between the driving cam and the drive part and between the lock part and the lock member, whereby the assembling errors are absorbed which may be involved in assembling work.

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Aichi, Japan

Masami Watanabe