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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2023
Alps Alpine Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Daisaku Sugawara, Tokyo, JP;
ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A rotary shifter includes a knob, a cam mechanism to hold the knob at holding positions corresponding to respective predetermined shift positions whose number is N, an electromagnetic brake including a yoke and an armature to restrict the rotation of the armature and the knob, and a hardware processor to determine a predetermined shift position of the knob to control the operation of the electromagnetic brake. The rotation pitch angle between the holding positions of the knob at the time of switching the predetermined shift positions is set to an angle obtained by dividing 360 degrees by a first integer A (A≥N). The rotation pitch angle between stopping positions of the armature corresponding to the holding positions at the time of switching the predetermined shift positions is set to an angle obtained by dividing 360 degrees by a second integer B (A>B≥N).