Customizable pedal system
AssigneeBell Helicopter Textron Inc.
InventorsPasquale SPINA, Brad LINTON
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Abstract
A pedal system includes a support base; a first lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base; a second lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base; a first pedal coupled to the first lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of a user to rotate the first lever; a second pedal coupled to the second lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of the user to rotate the second lever, and an adjustment assembly configured to adjust a default rotational orientation, about an axis of rotation, of the first and the second lever, the first and the second lever positioned at the default orientation when no external force is applied to the first and the second lever.
Claims18
A pedal system comprising:
- a support base;
- a first lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base;
- a second lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base;
- a first pedal coupled to the first lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of a user to rotate the first lever;
- a second pedal coupled to the second lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of the user to rotate the second lever, and
- an adjustment assembly configured to adjust a default rotational orientation, about an axis of rotation, of the first and the second lever, the first and the second lever positioned at the same default orientation when no external force is applied to the first and the second lever.
An aircraft comprising a pedal system comprising
- a support base;
- a first lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base;
- a second lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base;
- a first pedal coupled to the first lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of a user to rotate the first lever;
- a second pedal coupled to the second lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of the user to rotate the second lever, and
- an adjustment assembly configured to adjust a default rotational orientation, about an axis of rotation, of the first and the second lever, the first and the second lever positioned at the same default orientation when no external force is applied to the first and the second lever.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.