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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2014
Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, Windsor Locks, CT (US);
Cory M. Crandall-Seibert, Roscoe, IL (US);
Andrew N. Baines, Rockton, IL (US);
Timothy Michael Mayer, Belvidere, IL (US);
Gary L. Voss, Bryon, IL (US);
Sean Bradshaw, Rockford, IL (US);
Roger F. Glenn, South Beloit, IL (US);
HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION, Windsor Locks, CT (US);
Abstract
A selector lever that comprises a shaft rotatably attached to a pivot and arranged between two detent plates, each of the detent plates having a plurality of slots arranged for receiving a detent pin located on the shaft. Each of the plurality of slots on each of the two detent plates is defined by a radial depth. One or more of the plurality of slots is a failure detection slot having an extended radial depth. When one of the detent pins has failed, the opposing detent pin is allowed to travel into the extended radial depth when placed in the failure detection slot. This action reveals a failure indicator, providing a visual indication that one of the detent pins has failed.