US 11,959,544 B2
Shift device
Keisuke Sato, Miyagi (JP)
Assigned to ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/937,481.
Application 17/937,481 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/015096, filed on Apr. 9, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-072960 (JP), filed on Apr. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0023240 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. F16H 59/10 (2006.01); F16H 59/02 (2006.01)
CPC F16H 59/10 (2013.01) [F16H 59/0278 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shift device comprising:
a case having a cylindrical portion;
a shift lever configured to include a base portion provided to be rotatable inside the cylindrical portion, with which an operator performs a rotation operation;
a shift position holding mechanism configured to hold the shift lever at a predetermined shift position; and
an elastic member configured to protrude from one of the cylindrical portion or the base portion so as to face another of the cylindrical portion or the base portion, and contact either an outer circumferential surface of the base portion or an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion, to impose a rotational load on the shift lever.