Patent ID: 6101890
Filing Date: 2000-08-15
Classification: F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
A gear shifting apparatus, comprising:a fork shaft held in a housing, said fork shaft being slidable in an axial direction of said housing and being rotatable, and an inner lever disposed on the fork shaft;a plurality of shift forks slidably disposed on said fork shaft, in an axial direction of said fork shaft;an operation lever connected with said fork shaft, said operation lever being operable in a selecting direction to rotate said fork shaft in the peripheral direction so as to selectively engage the inner lever with one of said shift forks, and being operable in a shifting direction to slide said fork shaft in the axial direction so as to move said one of said shift forks engaged with the inner lever, thereby carrying out gear shifting by thus operating said fork shaft;a received member disposed on and fastened to said fork shaft, said received member having a connector projecting oppositely with respect to a lower end of the received member, said connector being fastened onto said fork shaft by a split pin, said received member having a head connected rotatably with said operation lever;a receiving member disposed in the housing and slidably receiving an end of said received member; anda groove formed in one of said received member and said receiving member, the groove engaging with the other one of said received member and said receiving member so as to define the movement of said fork shaft in the selecting direction.