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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2022
Delta Kogyo Co., Ltd., Hiroshima, JP;
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Keita Nishimo, Hiroshima, JP;
Tetsuya Obata, Hiroshima, JP;
Yoh Yamazaki, Hiroshima, JP;
Yohsuke Takenaga, Hiroshima, JP;
Akira Michinaga, Hiroshima, JP;
DELTA KOGYO CO., LTD., Hiroshima, JP;
MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
A shift lever includes a lever main body and a shift knob located at a distal end of the main body. The lever main body has a lever shaft and a push rod located in the lever shaft. The shift knob has a button for unlocking that receives a pushing manipulation force in a direction intersecting the push rod, a holder fixed to the lever shaft for holding the button, and a converter that converts a momentum in a pushing manipulation direction of the button into a momentum in an axial direction of the push rod to shift the push rod. The converter has a pushed surface to be pushed by the button, the pushed surface occupying only a region of the converter that is away from a central axis of the push rod in a releasing direction that is opposite to a pushing direction.