US 11,920,674 B2
Shift device
Tomonori Hayase, Aichi-ken (JP); Koji Imai, Aichi-ken (JP); Tomoaki Asai, Aichi-ken (JP); Kota Nishida, Aichi-ken (JP); Yohei Nakano, Aichi-ken (JP); Yosuke Murakami, Aichi-ken (JP); and Munetoshi Makimura, Aichi-ken (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, Aichi (JP)
Filed by KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, Aichi (JP)
Filed on Mar. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/698,395.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-051946 (JP), filed on Mar. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0307590 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. F16H 59/10 (2006.01)
CPC F16H 59/105 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shift device comprising:
a shift body that is moved to change a shift position;
an urger configured to urge the shift body toward a shift position;
an operator that is capable of being operated; and
a connector including a first connecting section provided at a shift body side of the connector and a second connecting section provided at an operator side of the connector, and urging the shift body separately from the urger, the connector connecting the shift body to the operator upon operation of the operator such that the shift body is moved while the first connecting section and the second connecting section are moving as an integral unit and the urger is urging the shift body, and the first connecting section being moved to a rotation axis direction of the shift body from the second connecting section due to an external force acting on the shift body in a case in which the operator is being operated such that connection of the shift body to the operator is released.