US 11,796,050 B2
Shift device with shift body that can be inhibited from displacement
Hiroki Ono, Aichi-ken (JP); and Nobuhisa Inoue, Aichi-ken (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, Aichi (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-Ken (JP)
Filed by KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, Aichi-ken (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Apr. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/222,615.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-071903 (JP), filed on Apr. 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0317909 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. F16H 59/08 (2006.01)
CPC F16H 59/08 (2013.01) [F16H 2059/081 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shift device comprising:
a protruding portion that protrudes towards a vehicle cabin side, a protruding direction of the protruding portion being a distal direction, a direction opposite from the protruding direction being a base direction, and a radial direction outer side of the protruding portion being an outer side; and
a shift body disposed at the outer side of the protruding portion, and having a shift position that is altered as a result of the shift body being rotated towards a circumferential direction side of the protruding portion and also being displaced along an axial direction of the protruding portion,
wherein a portion of the protruding portion in the distal direction from the shift body protrudes toward the outer side such that the portion partly covers the shift body in the distal direction of the shift body.