Pawls in a lifter device, having: outer teeth that are rotatably supported by shafts for in lock plates and are meshed with inner teeth of a base; and pins that are provided in an intermediate section in the radial direction, between the shaft center of the shafts and the teeth tips of the inner teeth, and are pressed in the rotation direction by a rotation transmittance plate during a release operation. The pins have a protruding shape that protrudes from the pawls in the thrust direction.