Patent ID: 7854139
Filing Date: 2010-12-21
Classification: B60H,G05G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A vehicular air conditioning control operating apparatus comprising: a base member having a gear lever arranged portion having a bearing portion and an approximately tubular pinion member arranged portion integrally provided in an outer peripheral portion of the gear lever arranged portion and including an axis extending approximately in an orthogonal direction to an axis of the bearing portion, closing an end portion in a side of the bearing portion in the pinion member arranged portion, and provided with a communication hole communicating with the gear lever arranged portion in a closed wall portion thereof; a gear lever rotatably arranged in a bearing portion of the gear lever arranged portion, having a gear portion and driving an output member based on a rotation; an approximately tubular pinion member rotatably arranged in the pinion member arranged portion and having a pinion portion engaging with the gear portion via the communication hole; a holder passing through the pinion member, having a retention portion retaining the pinion member in a state of arranging in the pinion member arranged portion in one end, and having a fixing portion for fixing to the base member in the other end; and an operation knob arranged so as to be outside fitted to the pinion member and integrally rotating the pinion member.