Pedal device
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsGenki Suzuki, Etsugo Yanagida
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Abstract
A pedal pad includes a tread portion depressed by a driver, is fixed to a pad holder, and is displaced together with the pad holder with respect to a support when depressed. A load sensor is fixed to the pad holder and detects a pedal effort of the driver acting on the pedal pad. A pedal effort transmission member includes a pressing portion that presses the load sensor to transmit the pedal effort to the load sensor, and is placed between the tread portion and both the load sensor and the pad holder, and pressed by the tread portion. The pedal pad holds the pedal effort transmission member against the pad holder so that the pressing portion is pressed against the load sensor by the elastic deformation of the pedal pad when the depression operation is not performed.
Claims12
A pedal device to be provided in a vehicle, the pedal device comprising:
- a support to be fixed to a vehicle body;
- a pedal body including a pad holder and operatively coupled to the support;
- a pedal pad including a tread portion to be depressed by a driver by a depression operation of the driver, the pedal pad affixed to the pad holder, including an elastically deformable elastic material, and to be displaced together with the pad holder with respect to the support by the depression operation;
- a load sensor fixed to the pad holder and configured to detect a pedal effort of the driver acting on the pedal pad in response to the depression operation;
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- a pedal effort transmission member including a pressing portion pressing the load sensor to transmit the pedal effort to the load sensor, the pedal effort transmission member placed between the tread portion and both the load sensor and the pad holder to be pressed by the tread portion, wherein
- the pedal pad holds the pedal effort transmission member against the pad holder so as to cause the pressing portion to be pressed against the load sensor by elastic deformation of the pedal pad when the depression operation is not performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.