Harold E Sharp

US Patent:

51633388, Nov 17, 1992

Filed:

Feb 25, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/840904

Inventors:

Harold L. Sharp - Union Lake MI
William F. Sultze - Oxford MI

Assignee:

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

International Classification:

F16C 110

US Classification:

745024

Abstract:

A core length adjuster mechanism provides adjustment for a push-pull cable system having a core disposed within a conduit. The core and the conduit are flexible for much of their length, with the core being a rigid rod at the ends. An end of one of the rods is slidably disposed within a body of the adjuster mechanism. The body was generally rectangular shape, elongated in an axial direction. The body has a member for swivelable attachment integrated into it. The body has a rectangular opening through perpendicular to the axis from a top to a bottom. There are teeth transverse to the axis in the opening on sides paralleling the axis. A clip is disposed in the opening. The clip can be manually moved from an adjust position to an engaged position. It has teeth complementary to the teeth in the opening that engage those teeth when the clip is in an engaged position by pressing it into the body. When the clip is in the adjust position, the teeth are not engaged.

US Patent:

49761714, Dec 11, 1990

Filed:

Oct 10, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/419307

Inventors:

Harold L. Sharp - Union Lake MI
Charles E. Kinkade - Dryden MI

Assignee:

General Motors Corporation - Detroit MI

International Classification:

B60R 4104

US Classification:

74878

Abstract:

The transmission shift range selector is held in a nondrive position by a pawl and rack mechanism until an operator controlled mechanism has been manipulated prior to attempting to shift the range selector.