Operation pedal device for vehicle
AssigneeToyoda Iron Works Co., Ltd.
InventorTomohiro Tsuguma
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Abstract
A vehicle operation pedal device includes a pedal bracket, an operation pedal, a rotation lever, and a shear portion. The rotation lever includes a contact portion and a pressing portion. The rotation lever is configured to, by receiving a load greater than or equal to a threshold when the contact portion comes into contact with the vehicle body structural member, rotate about the rotation shaft such that the pressing portion presses the input shaft. The shear portion is configured to fix the rotation lever to the pedal arm when the load applied to the rotation lever from the vehicle body structural member is less than the threshold, and cancel the fixation by being broken when the load is greater than or equal to the threshold.
Claims4
A vehicle operation pedal device employed in a vehicle including a partition wall that partitions a passenger compartment from a portion of a vehicle body forward of the passenger compartment, and a vehicle body structural member disposed behind the partition wall, the vehicle operation pedal device comprising:
- a pedal bracket fixed to the partition wall;
- an operation pedal that includes a pedal arm rotatably supported by the pedal bracket, wherein
- an input shaft of a device to which a depression force of the operation pedal is transmitted is connected to the pedal arm, and
- the operation pedal is configured such that the input shaft is moved in conjunction with rotation of the pedal arm;
- a rotation lever that
- includes a contact portion and a pressing portion,
- is supported by the pedal arm via a rotation shaft, and
- is configured to, by receiving a load greater than or equal to a threshold when the contact portion comes into contact with the vehicle body structural member at a collision of the vehicle, rotate about the rotation shaft such that the pressing portion presses the input shaft in a direction intersecting with an axis of the input shaft;
- and
- a shear portion that is configured to
- fix the rotation lever to the pedal arm when the load applied to the rotation lever from the vehicle body structural member is less than the threshold, and
- cancel the fixation by being broken when the load is greater than or equal to the threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.