Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Nippon Cable System Inc.

Shinichi Yone

Atsushi Komatsu

Lee N Bowers

Ken Shibazaki

Toru Ishino

Shinji Oka

Takashi Ishikawa

Youichi Sugimoto

Masaharu Ikawa

A shift apparatus includes a shift lever operable to select a first mode of a transmission when the shift lever is disposed at a first position and to select a second mode of the transmission when the shift lever is disposed at a second position, and a base supporting the shift lever. The shift lever automatically returns to a home position after selecting the first mode or the second mode. When moving the shift lever from the home position to the first position to select the first mode, the shift lever is moved in a first direction and then in a second direction which is different from and not directly opposite to the first direction. When moving the shift lever from the first position to the second position to select the second mode, the shift lever is moved in a third direction which is different from the first and second directions and not directly opposite to the second direction.

Shift apparatus

A transmission operating apparatus for a vehicle includes a shift lever manipulable by a driver, and at least one counterforce applying unit which electrically applies a counterforce counteracting a shifting operation of the shift lever to the shift lever corresponding to a respective position of the shift lever. The counterforce to be applied to the shift lever by the counterforce applying unit is changed when predetermined conditions are satisfied.

Transmission operating apparatus for vehicle

Vehicular manual transmission control apparatus is of the type in which two or more selectable shift positions of a shift lever () can be varied on the basis of a travel control state (e.g., position of the shift lever) of the vehicle. The apparatus includes a guide section (various shift patterns), which allows shift operation of the shift lever along a given shift path, assigned a high selection priority, to be performed with ease when the lever is to be shifted to a desired one of the shift positions. The guide section is implemented by a reactive force generation mechanism () which is in turn implemented by a control device ().

Vehicular manual transmission control apparatus

A transmission operating apparatus A mainly includes: a forward/backward direction sensorwhich detects positions of a shift levermanipulated by the driver; an operation mode selecting switchwhich selects one of two operation modes to be manipulated by the shift lever; a forward/backward manipulation reaction force actuator; and a controller. The controllerfurther includes: an operation panel setting sectionA which virtually sets an operation panel corresponding to the operation mode selected by the operation mode selecting switch; a reaction force control sectionB which sets a reaction force corresponding to the position of the shift leverin accordance with the operation panel; and a transmission control sectionC which controls a transmissionbased on the position of the shift leverin relation to the operation panel.

An apparatus for generating tactile force for a vehicle is provided, which includes a motor for generating the tactile force, a spring for generating the tactile force, an electromagnetic brake for cooperatively generating the tactile force with at least one of the motor and the spring, an accelerator pedal and a shift lever. The apparatus generates the tactile force for at least one of the accelerator pedal and the shift lever with a drive-by-wire method.

Apparatus for generating tactile force for a vehicle

A one-touch cap () for fixing a control cable end to a bracket () provided with a U-shaped slot (). The one-touch cap () has a cap () and a lock piece (). The cap () has a tubular body () having a cable fixing part in its one end, a first flange () and a second flange () laid on the periphery of the body () at an interval and one pair of elastic pieces () between the both flanges. The lock piece () is a member to lock the bend of the elastic pieces (). Each elastic piece () is connected to the bottom of the body (), and has a knob () at the free end thereof. An engaging claw () for engaging with the first stepped latching part () of the bracket () is formed on the outer surface of the elastic piece (). A hook block () to hook into the second stepped latching parts () is formed on the outer surface of each elastic piece ().

One-touch cap for fixing a control cable

An accelerator pedal device includes a pedal reaction force providing device for providing a reaction force to an accelerator pedal according to an amount of depression of the accelerator pedal operated by a driver. The reaction force to be provided from the pedal reaction force providing device to the pedal is controlled based on the depression amount of the accelerator pedal. This reaction force control allows precise agreement between throttle opening timing and pedal reaction force timing to produce a predetermined pedal reaction force at a desired degree of throttle opening.

Vehicle accelerator pedal device

Vehicular accelerator pedal device includes: a depression amount detection section for detecting an amount of depression, by a human operator, of an accelerator pedal and generating a depression amount signal; a throttle control section for controlling a throttle opening based upon the depression amount signal; a pedal reaction impartment section for imparting the accelerator pedal with a reaction force in accordance with the amount of depression; and a pedal reaction control section for, when operation has been performed for returning the pedal from a depressed position, controlling the reaction force based upon the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal.

Vehicular accelerator pedal device

An escutcheon and vehicle console assembly characterized by an assembly arrangement wherein resilient locking tabs serve to facilitate locking and disengagable cooperation between an escutcheon and console and prevent rattling of the escutcheon relative to the console.

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