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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2001
Akio Matsuzaki, Saitama, JP;
Takahito Sekita, Saitama, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a parking brake device allowing a vehicle to be kept in a wheel lock state by a parking brake when the vehicle is parked and a driver is separated from the vehicle and when an engine of a vehicle in a parking state is started. In a parking brake device in which a pull-up force of a parking lever supported by a base plate fixed on a vehicular body side is transmitted to a brake device of a vehicle via a wire to lock the brake device, an ignition block is provided on the parking lever. This parking brake device includes a lock pin projecting when a key cylinder is located in a LOCK position, and further the lock pin projects through a cutout only when the parking lever is in a brake lock state. With this configuration, the wheel is already in the lock state by the parking brake if an ignition key is inserted or removed in or from the key cylinder in the LOCK position.