Patent ID: 6490946
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: F16C,F16D,Y10T

Abstract:
An operating cable apparatus comprising;a strut, one end thereof engaging with one responsive member, an actuating lever pivotally mounted on another end of said strut and engaging with another responsive member in the vicinity of a pivot section between said actuating lever and the other end of said strut, in which a free end of said actuating lever, rotatably disposed in a space between two opposed splitting walls at an intermediate portion between both ends of said strut, branches away two opposed splitting plates being separated in a direction of a rotation axis of said actuating lever, a cable end nipple, comprised of a flat portion and projections projecting from two flat side surfaces of said flat portion, said projections being securely fixed on one end of the operating cable, in which said flat portion is positioned between said two opposed splitting plates of said actuating lever, and said projections being hooked on said free end of the actuating lever in a cable operating direction, said cable end nipple being connected to said free end of the actuating lever and establishing a connection between said cable end nipple and said free end of the actuating lever, wherein outer edge lines on said two opposed splitting walls of said strut at their cable operating direction side located around an intermediate portion between the two strut ends are oppositely inclined to intercross each other viewed from the direction of the rotation axis of the actuating lever, and regardless of a location that said cable end nipple interferes with said outer edge lines on the two opposed splitting walls of said strut, when said cable end nipple is pushed in a cable releasing direction, said cable end nipple is aligned so as to permit said cable end nipple to enter a space between said two opposed splitting walls of said strut while applying a rotational force around an operating cable axis against said oppositely inclined intercrossing outer edge lines of said two opposed splitting walls of said strut.