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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 10, 1986
Yutaka Inuzuka, Nishio, JP;
Akiyoshi Hirai, Toyota, JP;
Michiyuki Murakami, Toyoake, JP;
George Suzuki, Chiryu, JP;
Takahiko Watanabe, Kariya, JP;
Takeshi Kondo, Nagoya, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Tsuda Industries Co., Ltd., Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A shift lever assembly operatively linked with a transmission, for manually operating the transmission, including a shift lever, a support, and a pair of stationary retainer plates. The shift lever has a handle portion at which the shift lever is manipulated, and a spherical coupling portion at which the shift lever is universally supported. The support consists of two halves in the form of a pair of support sheets which have respective adjoining surfaces substantially parallel to a plane in which the shift lever extends. The support sheets cooperate with each other to provide a spherical support portion which engages the spherical coupling portion of the shift lever for universally supporting the shift lever. Each support sheet has an outer surface opposite to the corresponding adjoining surface. The stationary retainer plates are disposed in spaced-part relation with each other on opposite sides of the support, so as to hold the pair of support sheets at their outer surfaces. The assembly may further include a plurality of bolts which penetrate through the thickness of the support sheets and the retainer plates, for fastening the pair of support sheets to each other via the retainer plates.