Automatic transmission locking mechanism for parking

摘要

An automatic transmission locking mechanism including a lever rotatively interlocked with a manual shift lever, a rod adapted to be advanced or retracted by the lever, a parking gear, a pawl with a detent having a detent to be engaged with the parking gear, a cam mounted on the rod for pushing up the pawl in shifting the manual shift lever to the parking position, a bracket on which the cam runs and a spring for releasing the pawl from the parking gear and for retaining the pawl at the released position, wherein the pawl is rotatably supported on a shaft of a reduced length and the spring is disposed near the free end of the pawl within a plane in which the pawl is turned on the shaft and thereby the locking mechanism is formed in a compact construction and is suitably applicable to a front-engine front-drive vehicle.