Patent ID: 7056125

Claim:
Connection device for connecting one end of an operating cable to a control member, particularly a control lever of a vehicle gearbox; the device comprising an outer body intended to be attached to the operating cable and having a cavity; a pin intended to be connected to the control member and having a ball head; and a bush intended to be inserted into the cavity and having a snap-action spherical seat for receiving the ball head; wherein the bush is provided at its lower end with a first elastically deformable element in the form of a circumferential edge of smaller diameter than that of the ball head, in such a manner that the circumferential edge has to be elastically expanded for allowing insertion of the ball bead into the spherical seat; wherein the bush is further provided with a second elastically deformable element which in its undeformed condition forms an abutment surface arranged in the space enclosed by the surface of the spherical seat so as to avoid erroneous insertion of the ball head into the spherical seat.