「パーキングロック状態」問題再び....

昨日からずっと悩んでいる「状態」の訳し方ですが、「state」も使うのではないかというご意見を頂戴して、「パーキングロック状態」に近い訳語をUSPTOのデータベースの中から探してみました。良かったら参考になさってください。

FIG. 2A is a front view of a parking pawl actuation assembly disposed in a first or unlocked position according to the principles of the present invention;
FIG. 2B is a front view of a parking pawl actuation assembly disposed in a second or locked position according to the principles of the present invention;

US 20140346004A1
TRANSMISSION PARKING PAWL
GM Global Technolog Operations O LLC

Parking pawl assemblies are used in automotive vehicles to operatively engage the vehicle's park gear, thereby maintaining the vehicle in a "parked" position or state. 

FIG. 1 is partial front view of a parking pawl assembly, which is made in accordance with the teachings of the preferred embodiment of the invention, which is deployed within a conventional transmission, and which illustrates the parking pawl in a first “engaged” or “locked" position;
FIG. 2 is a partial front view of the parking pawl assembly shown in FIG. 1 with the parking pawl shown in a second "partially engaged" position;
FIG. 3 is a partial front view of the parking pawl assembly shown in FIG. 1 in a third “disengaged" position or state;

In operation, parking pawl assembly 10 resides in the position illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 5 when the vehicle is in an operating state or condition other than park (e.g., if the vehicle is in reverse, neutral or drive).

Shifting assembly 18 is operatively and selectively movable between several positions, such as a "park' position, a “reverse' position, a “neutral' position, and a “drive' position, which respectively correspond to various operating states or operating modes of the vehicle. 

USOO6279713B1
PARKING PAWL ASSEMBLY
Visteon Global Technologies, Inc.,

FIG. 2 a side elevational view of a park lock assembly according to another embodiment of the present invention in a disengaged (non-Park) state or operating mode; and
FIG. 3 a side elevational view of a park lock assembly according to another embodiment of the present invention in an engaged (Park) state or operating mode.
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USOO8002101B2
METHOD OF OPERATING A PARK LOCK
CHRYSLER GROUP LLC

下記は特許以外ですが、よかったらご参考にまで。

Event-1 in Fig. 2 position of pawl when the transmission lever is not in the park mode. Subsequent -2 is the condition where pawl is approaching toward tooth of park gear. Ratcheting event may or may not be happened and the last Event-3 is when the pawl is engaged. 

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