Patent ID: 9573465
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: B60K

Claim:
1. A vehicle comprising: a transmission that is capable of changing a change gear ratio at which power is transmitted to rear left and right rear drive wheels from a power unit; a propeller shaft that is connected to the transmission and transmits power to the rear left and right rear drive wheels; a rear differential mechanism that generates a difference in rotational speed between the rear left and right drive wheels; a differential lock mechanism that is configured to bring the rear differential mechanism into a non-differential state; a shift lever that is supported on a vehicle body frame and changes a traveling mode of the vehicle and the change gear ratio of the transmission, the traveling mode of the vehicle is one of forward traveling mode, a neutral mode, and a backward traveling mode; and a shift lever panel on which a plurality of gates into which the shift lever is inserted are formed; a switch lever for changing a drive mode of the vehicle, the drive mode of the vehicle is one of a two-wheel drive mode and a four-wheel drive mode; wherein the transmission includes a drive force transmission/interruption mechanism that restricts rotation of the propeller shaft, the shift lever is mechanically connected to the transmission and is also mechanically connected to the differential lock mechanism, and the vehicle includes a shift lever mechanism that is configured to perform a shift operation of the transmission and an operation of the drive force transmission/interruption mechanism by operating the shift lever and is configured to perform a lock operation and an unlock operation of the differential lock mechanism by operating the shift lever.