US 11,913,539 B1
Sphere-type shift control apparatus for electronic shift system
Sung Hun Lee, Seoul (KR); Chul Ho Chun, Gyeongju-Si (KR); Min Gwon Lee, Gyeongsan-Si (KR); and Tae Jo Kim, Daegu (KR)
Assigned to Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul (KR); and Kia Corporation, Seoul (KR)
Filed on Apr. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/134,417.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0144637 (KR), filed on Nov. 2, 2022.
Int. Cl. F16H 59/08 (2006.01); F16H 59/02 (2006.01)
CPC F16H 59/08 (2013.01) [F16H 59/0278 (2013.01); F16H 2059/026 (2013.01); F16H 2059/081 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A spherical shift control apparatus of an electronic shift system, the apparatus comprising:
a housing;
a spherical mechanism rotatably mounted in the housing and including a shift control portion on a first hemispherical portion of the spherical mechanism and a design portion on a second hemispherical portion of the spherical mechanism; and
a power transmission component coupling a motor and the spherical mechanism and configured to transmit power from the motor to the spherical mechanism, the power transmission component including a timing belt or a wire;
a driving pulley and a driven pulley coupled to the motor and a rotation shaft of the spherical mechanism, respectively, wherein the timing belt or the wire couples the driving pulley and the driven pulley; and
a swaging pin provided on a line of the wire to be fixed to an external diameter portion of the driving pulley,
wherein a pair of pulley levers are provided coaxially with the driven pulley, with first and second end portions of the wire being coupled to the pulley levers, respectively.