Patent ID: 11859655
Assignee: HI-LEX CORPORATION
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 0:
1. A coupling mechanism, comprising:
a cable including a cable end at an end portion of the cable;
a slider including a coupling part configured to be coupled with the end portion of the cable; and
a joint case including a housing space configured to house the slider in a slidable manner,
wherein the coupling part includes:
a cable end housing part configured to house the cable end, and
a separation restraining part configured to restrain separation of the cable from the slider,

wherein the separation restraining part includes:
an installation space extended in a sliding direction of the slider, the installation space being a space in which the cable extended from the cable end is disposed in a state where the cable is coupled with the slider,
an inlet configured to open in a direction perpendicular to an axis of the cable with a gap equal to or greater than a wire diameter of the cable, and allow the cable to move in the direction perpendicular to the axis and to pass through the inlet,
a passage part communicated with the installation space and the inlet, and configured to allow the cable to move to the installation space through the inlet, and
a first restriction part configured to block a movement direction of the cable when the cable disposed in the installation space moves in a direction parallel to an extending direction of the passage part, wherein

the cable includes:
a first cable and a second cable disposed parallel to each other, and
a coupling end configured to couple the first cable and the second cable; and

wherein the installation space is configured such that when one of the first cable and the second cable moves through the passage part through the inlet and reaches a position separated from the passage part by a rotation of the coupling end at the cable end housing part, the other of the first cable and the second cable is allowed to move from the passage part to the installation space.