Fixing structure

Inventors: Kohei Sakakibara (Kariya, JP); Naoya Yoshizawa (Kariya, JP)

Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION

G01D5/142 F16F1/00 F16F15/067 F16F15/167 F16F15/18 B60K26/02 B60T7/042

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Patent No.: US 11,578,994
App. No.: 16/818,238
Granted: Feb 14, 2023
Kind: B2

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Abstract

A fixing structure includes a housing including a first hole, an input member including a second hole, and rotating relative to the housing, depending on input of rotational force, a torsion spring being biased so as to return, to a predetermined reference position, a position of the input member relative to the housing, and a fixing member inserted into the first hole and the second hole in a state where the input member is rotated against biasing force of the torsion spring from the reference position to a predetermined rotational position. The fixing member includes a first insertion portion including a part press-fitted into and fixed to the first hole, and a second insertion portion including a part inserted into the second hole, and fixes the input member at the predetermined rotational position.

Claims (38)

1. A fixing structure comprising:

a housing that includes a first hole;

an input member that includes a second hole and rotates relative to the housing, depending on input of rotational force;

a torsion spring that is biased so as to return, to a predetermined reference position, a position of the input member relative to the housing in a rotational direction; and

a fixing member that is inserted extending over the first hole and the second hole in a state where the input member is rotated against biasing force of the torsion spring from the reference position to a predetermined rotational position where the first hole and the second hole at least partially overlap with each other in a plan view, and includes a first insertion portion including a part press-fitted into and fixed to the first hole, and a second insertion portion including a part inserted into the second hole, wherein

the fixing member fixes the input member at the predetermined rotational position.

2. The fixing structure according to claim 1 , wherein

the first hole includes a first surface perpendicular to a rotational direction of the input member, and a second surface parallel with the first surface,

the second surface is a surface to which the input member applies force of causing the input member to return to the reference position, depending on biasing force of the torsion spring, and

a first pressing portion that presses the fixing member toward the first surface is provided on the second surface.

3. The fixing structure according to claim 2 , wherein a surface being included in the first insertion portion and facing the first surface is configured on a same plane including a surface that is included in the second insertion portion and to which the force of causing the input member to return is applied from the input member.

4. The fixing structure according to claim 3 , wherein