The parking mechanism immobilizes the vehicle in combination with the side brake while the vehicle is parked. This is interlocked with the vehicle’s selector lever, and it mechanically locks the parked vehicle so that the vehicle does not move. Its components includes the manual shaft, manual plate, rod plate, parking rod, detent spring, parking pawl, and parking gear.
Parking structure
1.Select the parking position with the manual shaft. (The detent feel of each range is determined by the detent spring and the overstriding force over the protrusion and depression of manual plate.) 2.When the rod plate reaches the P position, the parking rod is pressed down, and the rod slides in the support actuator inner hole. 3.At the parking rod cam, a force acts to turn the parking pawl. Then, the pawl section of the parking pawl is engaged with the parking gear. 4.Because the parking gear which is spline-engaged with the reduction gear will be fixed, the output axis will also be fixed.
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