US 12,455,589 B2
Shift device
Haruki Seto, Aichi (JP); and Kazuhiro Saito, Aichi (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI-RIKA-DENKI-SEISAKUSHO, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Jun. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/209,368.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-098395 (JP), filed on Jun. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0409071 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. F16H 59/08 (2006.01); F16H 59/10 (2006.01); G05G 5/03 (2008.04)
CPC G05G 5/03 (2013.01) [F16H 59/08 (2013.01); F16H 2059/081 (2013.01); F16H 59/105 (2013.01); G05G 2505/00 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shift device comprising:
a shift body that is moved to change a shift position of the shift body;
a click mechanism having a click member and a click surface against which the click member is biased to abut, the click mechanism being configured so that, when the shift body is movably operated, one of the click member or the click surface moves in accompaniment with movement of the shift body and imparts a clicking feel to the shift body; and
at least one guide portion that guides the click member to the click surface and that is disposed in a position in which it does not oppose the click surface,
wherein the shift body includes an insertion hole into which the click member is inserted and a pair of separated pendent portions that protrude toward the click surface from a click surface side end of the insertion hole,
wherein each of the at least one guide portion is a groove provided at the pair of pendent portions,
the click member includes at least one guided portion which is inserted into the at least one guide portion, and
the pair of pendent portions include the at least one guide portion, which is provided in a position offset on one lateral side relative to the click surface as seen from an opposite side of the click surface.