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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2021
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Subaru Corporation, Shibuya-ku Tokyo, JP;
Kazunori Masaoka, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Naoki Yamada, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Junya Ono, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Naofumi Ota, Shibuya-ku Tokyo, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A selector unit includes a panel, and a dial member that protrudes in a first direction from an opening of the panel. A surface of the panel includes a concave surface having a depth that increases toward the opening. The dial member has an operation portion gripped by a user, and a base shaft portion that extends from the operation portion through the opening of the panel. At least a part of an outer circumferential surface of the base shaft portion is an inclined surface that is inclined radially outward as being away from the panel, and the inclined surface is opposed to the surface of the panel in the first direction. The distance from the surface of the panel to the inclined surface of the dial member in the first direction continuously increases, as a radial distance from the opening to the inclined surface increases.