Patent ID: 6976402

Claim:
A parking brake lever of a vehicle, comprising: a supporting member adapted to be fixed to a frame of the vehicle and provided with a ratchet portion; an oscillating member mounted on the supporting member and oscillatable between a braked position and a released position; a push button provided in one end of said oscillating member; a pawl being rotatable with respect to said oscillating member and engagable with said ratchet portion while said oscillating member is in the braked position, thereby preventing said oscillating member from oscillating to the released position; and a connecting member extending between said push button and said pawl and transmitting a pressing force from said push button to rotating force of said pawl, wherein at least a portion of said connecting member includes a flexible cable; wherein said flexible cable has a characteristic of a material that can transmit the pressing force of the push button to the pawl so as to rotate the pawl when the oscillating member is slightly pulled upward from its braking position and that cannot transmit the pressing force of the push button to the pawl when the oscillating member is not pulled upward from the braking position.