Push-pull cable motor truck remote gear shift system and two-dimensional motion conversion and transmission apparatus therein

Claim 2

Motion conversion, transmitting and reconversion apparatus comprising a master unit and a remote slave unit each including a translator member guided therein for rotational motion about an axis and for lineally defined translational motion in a motion plane perpendicular to said axis, means to actuate the master unit translator member to execute such motions, motion transmitting means comprising a pair of flexible push-pull cables interconnecting said translator members at respective spaced locations on each for effecting rotational and translational motions of the slave unit translator member substantially duplicative of such motions of the master unit translator member, and output coupler means on the slave unit translator member.

Claim 3

The apparatus defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of the translator members is of generally disk-like configuration, and associated means guiding such one translator member comprising an enclosure with opposing parallel walls slidably receiving said one translator member therebetween.

Claim 5

Push-pull cable remote actuation apparatus comprising spaced master and slave units each including a translator member and means guiding such translator member for angular motion in a motion plane and for bodily translational motion along a defined lineal path in said plane, first and second flexible push-pull cables extending between said units having respective end portions mounted in fixed association with each unit in transversely spaced generally parallel relationship with the associated translator member lineal motion path in such unit, such respective cable end portions at each unit being operatively connected to the associated translator member at transversely spaced locations thereon such that relative longitudinal movement of the cable end portions is attended at each unit by related angular motion of the translator member therein while conjoint equal longitudinal movement of the cable end portions in the same direction is attended by related bodily translational motion of such translator member along its lineal motion path, coupler means in the master unit translator member adapted for operative coupling to actuator means to be actuated in a two-dimensional actuation path pattern in the motion plane of said master unit translator member, whereby to effect master unit translator member angular and translational motions coupled by said cables to the slave unit translator member for producing similar angular and translational motions of the latter, and output coupler means on said slave unit translator operable thereby to move in a path corresponding to said two-dimensional actuation path pattern.

Claim 6

Push-pull cable remote actuation apparatus comprising spaced master and slave units each including a translator member and means guiding such translator member for angular motion in a motion plane and for bodily translational motion along a defined lineal path in said plane, first and second flexible push-pull cables extending between said units having respective end portions mounted in fixed association with each unit in transversely spaced generally parallel relationship with the associated translator member lineal motion path in such unit, such respective cable end portions at each unit being operatively connected to the associated translator member at transversely spaced locations thereon such that relative longitudinal movement of the cable end portions is attended at each unit by related angular motion of the translator member therein while conjoint equal longitudinal movement of the cable end portions in the same direction is attended by related bodily translational motion of such translator member along its lineal motion path, coupler means in the master unit translator member adapted for operative coupling to actuator means to be actuated in a two-dimensional actuation path pattern in the motion plane of said master unit translator member, whereby to effect master unit translator member angular and translational motions coupled by said cables to the slave unit translator member for producing similar angular and translational motions of the latter, and output coupler means on said slave unit translator operable thereby to move in a path corresponding to said two-dimensional actuation path pattern.

Claim 7

The apparatus defined in claim 4 further characterized in that the master and slave units comprise housings with lineal path guideways in the respective housings and wherein the associated translator members have angular motion pivot means slidable in translation along the respective guideways.

Claim 8

The apparatus defined in claim 5 wherein the translator members are of generally flat disk-like form and the housings comprise parallel opposing inner generally flat surfaces between which the translator members are received in slidable relationship.

Claim 9

The apparatus defined in claim 6 wherein the guideway in each housing comprises an elongated groove formed in associate with one of the flat surfaces thereof, and the sliding pivot means of the associated translator member comprises a pivot pin slidably received in such groove.