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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1985
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1982
Kotei Takahashi, Yokohama, JP;
Nissan Motor Company, Ltd., , JP;
Abstract
In an automotive manual transmission comprising a common fork shaft on and along which a plurality of shift forks are slidable, a control rod rotatable about and slidable along the axis thereof which is normal to the axis of the common fork shaft, a pivotting pin extending normal to both the axes of the common fork shaft and the control rod, a plurality of pivotting levers pivotally mounted on the pivotting pin and jointly engaged at their one ends with the corresponding shift forks, a selecting head member secured to the control rod and engageable with the other end of selected one of the pivotting levers when the control rod is rotated about the axis thereof into an angular position, an interlock plate rotatably mounted on the control rod to ensure that only the selected pivotting lever is rotatable at any given time, and a supporting member removably connected to the transmission housing and mounting thereon the pivotting pin, there is proposed a positioning arrangement in which the supporting member is provided with at least one positioning means which is, when the supporting member is mounted to the transmission housing, brought into a locking engagement with a partner positioning means provided at the transmission housing.