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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1995
Yukio Nishigai, Shizuoka, JP;
Shigeo Matsumoto, Shizuoka, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Atsumitec, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
A ball joint connects a swinging shaft and a bell-crank provided on a change lever for transmitting a swinging movement of the change lever in a select direction to the bell-crank. The ball joint includes a ball having a pair of flat surfaces for defining a width smaller than the maximum diameter of the ball, a ball hole which is formed at one end of the bell-crank and in which the ball is rotatably fitted, a shaft hole which formed in the ball so as to open through both the flat surface and in which the swinging shaft of the change lever is slidably fitted. A rotation of the ball in the ball hole permits a relative swinging movement between the swinging shaft and the bell-crank. A sliding movement of the swinging shaft in the shaft hole permits an axial displacement of the swinging shaft with respect to the bell-crank.