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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1995
Seiji Nishide, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai-Rika-Denki-Seisakusho, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A return preventing device preventing return of an object driven when a vehicle suddenly decelerates includes: a gear receiving drive force of a drive device, which drives the object, so as to rotate in a first direction, and transmitting the drive force to the object so as to drive the object; a rotation-preventing pawl disposed so as to be meshable with the gear, and preventing rotation of the gear in a second direction opposite the first direction in a state in which the rotation-preventing pawl and the gear are meshed; and an elastic member for making the rotation-preventing pawl mesh with the gear substantially synchronously with rotation of the gear in the second direction. Accordingly, the rotation-preventing pawl reliably meshes with the gear substantially synchronously with rotation of the gear in the second direction.