Parking device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10071714-B2
Application number	US-201414891487-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 17, 2014
Priority date	Jun 17, 2013
Publication date	Sep 11, 2018
Grant date	Sep 11, 2018

Abstract

A hydraulic unit and an electromagnetic unit are disposed such that a piston rod of the hydraulic unit and a solenoid shaft of the electromagnetic unit are orthogonal to each other. The electromagnetic unit is configured such that an end surface of an expanded diameter portion of a shaft portion of the solenoid shaft on the piston rod side is pressed against an attracting portion of a yoke by the elastic force of a spring when a parking unlocked state is established by a hydraulic pressure.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A parking device mounted on a vehicle to establish a parking locked state and a parking unlocked state, comprising:
a first shaft member that is movable in a first direction to switch between the parking locked state and the parking unlocked state using an elastic force or a hydraulic pressure; and
an electromagnetic unit that includes a second shaft member that is movable in a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction to restrict movement of the first shaft member, an elastic member that urges the second shaft member toward the first shaft member, in the second direction, using an elastic force, a magnetic body portion provided to the second shaft member, and an attracting portion that attracts the magnetic body portion of the second shaft member using a magnetic force, wherein
the electromagnetic unit is configured such that the second shaft member is pressed against the attracting portion by the elastic force of the elastic member when the first shaft member establishes the parking locked state using the hydraulic pressure or establishes the parking unlocked state using the hydraulic pressure.

2. The parking device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the first shaft member is provided with an abutment portion that can abut against a distal end portion of the second shaft member to restrict movement of the first shaft member; and
the abutment portion of the first shaft member is configured not to abut against the distal end portion of the second shaft member when the first shaft member establishes the parking locked state or the parking unlocked state, which are established using the hydraulic pressure.

3. The parking device according to claim 2 , wherein:
the attracting portion is disposed at a position at which the attracting portion can restrict movement of the second shaft member toward the first shaft member; and
the second shaft member includes a small diameter portion that includes the distal end portion and a large diameter portion that is larger in diameter than the small diameter portion and that includes the magnetic body portion, and the large diameter portion is pressed against the attracting portion when the first shaft member establishes the parking locked state or the parking unlocked state, which are established using the hydraulic pressure.

4. The parking device according to claim 3 , wherein:
the second shaft member is composed of a first constituent member integrally composed of the small diameter portion and an expanded diameter portion that serves as a non-magnetic body portion of the large diameter portion which is larger in outside diameter than the small diameter portion, and a second constituent member constituted as the magnetic body portion of the large diameter portion; and
the expanded diameter portion is inserted into a recessed portion which is formed in the second constituent member and a depth of which is smaller than a length of the expanded diameter portion of the first constituent member in the second direction, and an end surface of the expanded diameter portion of the first constituent member on a side of the small diameter portion is pressed against the attracting portion when the first shaft member establishes the parking locked state or the parking unlocked state, which are established using the hydraulic pressure.

5. The parking device according to claim 4 , wherein
an unlock side surface of the distal end portion of the second shaft member on an unlock side is formed to be inclined toward the unlock side from a distal end side toward a base end side of the second shaft member.

6. The parking device according to claim 5 , wherein
the first shaft member is urged by the elastic force toward a lock side, in the first direction, on which the parking locked state is established, and moved by the hydraulic pressure toward an unlock side, in the first direction, which is opposite to the lock side against the elastic force.

7. The parking device according to claim 6 , wherein
the attracting portion attracts the magnetic body portion of the second shaft member using the magnetic force when a coil is energized; and
the electromagnetic unit is configured to allow the second shaft member to be moved toward a side away from the first shaft member, in the second direction, by a force applied from the abutment portion of the first shaft member to the distal end portion of the second shaft member during movement of the first shaft member when the coil is not energized.

8. The parking device according to claim 7 , wherein
the attracting portion is a permanent magnet that attracts and holds the magnetic body portion of the second shaft member using the magnetic force; and
the electromagnetic unit is configured to cancel attraction of the magnetic body portion of the second shaft member by the permanent magnet and to allow the second shaft member to be moved away from the first shaft member, in the second direction, by a force applied from the abutment portion of the first shaft member to the distal end portion of the second shaft member during movement of the first shaft member when the coil is energized.

9. The parking device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
an upper abutment surface of the distal end portion of the second shaft member that abuts against the abutment portion is formed to be inclined toward an unlock side at a constant angle from the distal end side toward a base end side of the second shaft member, when the parking unlocked state is transitioned to the parking locked state.

10. The parking device according to claim 2 , wherein a lower abutment surface of the distal end portion of the second shaft member that abuts against the abutment portion is formed to be inclined toward a lock side in an arcuately curved shape from the distal end side toward a base end side of the second shaft member, when the parking locked state is transitioned to the parking unlocked state.

11. The parking device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the attracting portion is disposed at a position at which the attracting portion can restrict movement of the second shaft member toward the first shaft member; and
the second shaft member includes a small diameter portion that includes a distal end portion and a large diameter portion that includes the magnetic body portion, the large diameter portion is larger in diameter than the small diameter portion, and the large diameter portion is pressed against the attracting portion when the first shaft member establishes the parking locked state or the parking unlocked state, which are established using the hydraulic pressure.

12. The parking device according to claim 11 , wherein
the second shaft member is formed such that the large diameter portion includes a non-magnetic body portion that projects toward the small diameter portion with respect to the magnetic body portion, and the non-magnetic body portion of the large diameter portion is pressed against the attracting portion when the first shaft member establishes the parking locked state or the parking unlocked state, which are established using the hydraulic pressure.

13. The parking device according to claim 1 , wherein
an unlock side surface of a distal end portion of the second shaft member on an unlock side is formed to be inclined toward the unlock side from a distal end side toward a base end side of the second shaft member.

14. The parking device according to claim 1 , wherein
the first shaft member is urged by the elastic force toward a lock side, in the first direction, on which the parking locked state is established, and moved by the hydraul

Assignees

• Aisin Aw Co

Inventors

• Iwata Akihito
• Takei Tadamasa
• Naka Kenichi

Classifications

• F16D63/00

  Brakes not otherwise provided for; Brakes combining more than one of the types of groups F16D49/00 - F16D61/00 · CPC title

• B60T1/005 Primary

  by locking of wheel or transmission rotation · CPC title

• F16H63/34

  Locking or disabling mechanisms · CPC title

• F16D2121/20

  using electromagnets · CPC title

• B60T1/06

  acting otherwise than on tread, e.g. employing rim, drum, disc, or transmission {or on double wheels} · CPC title