Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Tomoyuki Shibata

Satoshi Ogawa

Yoshimi Noro

Kazuyoshi Ishiguro

Yoshiyuki Aoki

Fusatomo Miyake

Ryoji Watanabe

Shouji Kimura

A mode selection unit, a blower unit and a temperature control unit are mounted on a cluster panel of a vehicle. The mode selection unit, the blower unit and the temperature control unit have a function of controlling the wind blow position, a function of controlling the wind blow rate and a function of controlling the wind blow temperature respectively, and are constituted by operating mechanisms mechanically separated from one another. Accordingly, the degree of freedom in the layout of the mode selection unit to the temperature control unit is improved so that it becomes easy to dispose them in accordance with the vehicle-side design.

Operating device of vehicle air conditioner

A gear portion is provided on the inner peripheral surface of a dial, and a large diameter portion of a main driving gear is mated with the gear portion. A driven gear is mated with a small diameter portion of the main driving gear, and the state of an air conditioner is switched based on the moving operation of a cable through the gear portion, the main driving gear and the driven gear in the rotating operation of the dial. With this structure, it is not necessary to provide a rotary shaft as a member for transmitting an operating force to the central part or the dial. Consequently, it is possible to maintain a space in the central part of the dial. Thus, restrictions can be decreased in the case in which a knob is to be arranged.

Operating device of air conditioner for vehicle

A plurality of click portions is formed integrally with a unit body. The click portions are arranged on a common circular track, and a dial is engaged with the click portions so as to be unstable and to be prevented from slipping off. Therefore, it is not necessary to provide a D spring for coupling the dial to a shaft so as to be unstable and to be prevented from slipping off. Consequently, it is possible to reduce the number of components and a cost.

Operating device for air conditioner for vehicle

A rotary body ( ) rotating around a shaft center (O ) is provided at a main case body ( ). A cam ( ) is provided at the outer periphery of the potion ( ) of the rotary body ( ). A supporting shaft ( ) is provided at the main case body ( ) and a cam driving force transmission rod ( ) is rotatably supported by the supporting shaft ( ). When the cam abutment portion ( ) of the cam driving force transmission rod ( ) abuts against the cam ( ), the pressing portion ( ) of the cam driving force transmission rod ( ) pushes an interlock member ( ) to turn on a switch. A virtual circle (K) is a moving locus of the outermost portion of a cable operation member which swings around a guide tube ( ), and the cam ( ) is disposed within the virtual circle (K).

Operation switch unit for vehicle

The connector connecting device includes: a connector receiving main-part that is molded with a row of connecting terminals after inserting the connecting terminals therein, has mold extracting holes respectively formed in an upper side wall and a lower side wall of the connector receiving main-part surrounding tips of the row of the connecting terminals; and a connector receiving auxiliary-part that is molded with a row of the connecting terminals after inserting the connecting terminals therein so that tips of the connecting terminals are not molded. The connector receiving auxiliary-part having the connecting terminals that is mounted from one of the mold extracting holes into the connector receiving main-part.

Connector connecting device

A coil-spring-supporting device includes a tension coil spring which includes two small-diameter portions near both ends which portions are smaller in winding diameter than the remaining portion, and a pair of engaging devices provided at a spring mounting region where the tension coil spring is to be mounted, the engaging devices being engaged with the two small-diameter portions in such a manner that the small-diameter portions are held by the engaging devices. Each of the engaging devices is made up of a pair of supporting cylindrical pins.

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Aichi, Japan

Tomoyuki Shibata