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US 2013/0074643 A1Published application
Accelerator device
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsTakehiro SAITO, Masahiro MAKINO, Hiroshi SAJI
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Abstract
An accelerator device includes: an accommodation part; a rotation shaft having a first end and a second end that are supported by the accommodation part; a pedal part having a first end fixed to the rotation shaft and a second end to be pressed by a driver of a vehicle in an open direction; a return mechanism part biasing the rotation shaft to be rotated in a close direction opposite from the open direction; and a seal member restricting a foreign matter from entering an interior space of the accommodation part.
Claims5
An accelerator device comprising:
- an accommodation part to be attached to a vehicle;
- a rotation shaft having a first end and a second end that are supported by the accommodation part;
- a pedal part having a first end fixed to the rotation shaft and a second end to be pressed by a driver of the vehicle in an open direction;
- a rotation angle detector accommodated in an interior space of the accommodation part and detecting a rotation angle of the rotation shaft with respect to the accommodation part;
- a return mechanism part accommodated in the interior space of the accommodation part and biasing the rotation shaft to be rotated in a close direction opposite from the open direction;
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- a seal member arranged in a clearance through which the interior space of the accommodation part communicates with outside of the accommodation part, the seal member restricting a foreign matter from entering the interior space of the accommodation part.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.