Turn signal switch device
View Patent ↗A turn signal switch device has a manipulation lever and a cancel lever that can advance and retract to and from the rotation path of a cancel protrusion, which is shaped like a sector and rotates together with a shaft. A cancel protrusion engaging part that engages a cancel protrusion is formed at the front end of the cancel lever. The cancel protrusion engaging part is disposed at a position offset from the lever body of the cancel lever in the axial direction of the shaft.
1. A turn signal switch device comprising:
a steering shaft;
a manipulation lever swingable to a left-turn indicating position or a right-turn indicating position through a neutral position, the manipulation lever being automatically returned to the neutral position from one of the left-turn indicating position or the right-turn indicating position as the steering shaft is rotated;
a holding body that holds a bottom end of the manipulation lever, the holding body being swingable together with the manipulation lever;
a housing that swingably supports the holding body;
a lever guide member attached to the housing;
a cancel lever supported by the lever guide member so that a front end of the cancel lever is movable toward and away from the steering shaft when the manipulation lever is manipulated so as to swing, the cancel lever having a lever body; and
a cancel cam member that rotates together with the steering shaft, the cancel cam having a cancel protrusion; wherein:
a cancel protrusion engaging part is disposed at the front end of the cancel lever so as to be able to advance and retract to and from a rotation path of the cancel protrusion of the cancel cam member, and
the cancel protrusion engaging part is disposed at a position offset from the lever body of the cancel lever in an axial direction of the steering shaft;
wherein the cancel protrusion engaging part comprises a bent portion provided at a front end, the bent portion of the engaging part comprising a bent portion of the cancel lever bent in the axial direction of the steering shaft and a bent portion of the cancel lever bent toward the steering shaft;
wherein the lever guide member comprises a lever guide hole so that the cancel protrusion engaging part protrudes from the housing and is swingable and movable reciprocally; and
wherein the lever guide member comprises an insertion hole that communicates with the lever guide hole, and the bent portion of the engaging part is inserted into the insertion hole such that the insertion hole is used to assemble the cancel protrusion engaging part to the lever guide hole when the cancel lever is incorporated.
2. The turn signal switch device according to claim 1 , wherein the insertion hole is at a position outside a movable range of the cancel protrusion engaging part in the lever guide hole.
3. The turn signal switch device according to claim 1 , wherein a lever stopping part, which stops a backward movement of the cancel protrusion engaging part, is in the lever guide hole.