Patent ID: 6477873
Filing Date: 2002-11-12
Classification: F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
A car lock structure in an automatic transmission shift rod, comprising:a shift rod head, being mounted onto the top of a shift rod body, forming a shift rod hole and a cylinder lock hole, and forming an accommodation chamber capable of passing through the shift rod hole and the cylinder lock hole on the lateral side such that a push rod in the shift rod body extends into the accommodation chamber; a lock cylinder, being mounted into the cylinder lock hole, and a lock bracket extends into the accommodation chamber for latching a press button: a fixed cover, being mounted into the accommodation chamber of the shift rod head, and having a penetrating press button hole, and its bottom being a penetrating section into where a push rod extends, and its top being a latching section into where the lock bracket latches; a press button, being mounted and passing through the press button hole, and its bottom has a push rod insert hole for triggering the push rod, and its top forms a locking section for latching the lock bracket, and a latching edge being formed at the rear end of the opening of the push rod insert hole for latching the push rod; wherein the fixed cover being mounted into the accommodation chamber of the shift rod head, and the press button being inserted into the press button hole of the fixed cover, and then the entire structure including the shift rod head of the lock being mounted onto the top of the shift rod body such that the push rod extends into the push rod hole of the press button in order to complete the assembly of the entire lock structure; and the press button does not fall off from a side of the fixed cover due to the insertion of the push rod, and the fixed cover cannot be removed from the shift rod head since the latching section and the lock bracket are latched with each other, thereby such arrangement can prevent the entire lock from being damaged by an unauthorized user.