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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2010
Yosuke Kato, Gotemba, JP;
Michitaka Tsuchida, Miyoshi, JP;
Yosuke Kato, Gotemba, JP;
Michitaka Tsuchida, Miyoshi, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a parking lock apparatus which can prevent an electric actuator from being accessed from the outside of the vehicle, and thereby can prevent the function of the parking lock apparatus from being lowered as well as can reduce the production cost in comparison with the conventional parking lock apparatus. The parking lock apparatus comprises an electric actuatorto be activated in response to the shift operation, and a parking lock apparatuscapable of selectively taking a parking lock maintained state to have the stoppage state of a vehiclemaintained or a parking lock released state to have the stoppage state of the vehiclereleased. The electric actuatoris disposed between a first housingH partly constituting an enginefor generating a power and a second housingH partly constituting a transaxlefor transmitting the power generated by the engine