Vehicle Pedal Assembly with Plastic Pedal Shaft Structure
AssigneeCTS Corporation
InventorThomas A. Hallberg
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Abstract
A vehicle pedal assembly with a stationary plastic pedal shaft structure made of different plastic materials and more specifically a vehicle pedal assembly with a pedal shaft including an exterior bearing surface adapted for abutting bearing contact with the surface of the drum of the pedal shaft. The bearing surface is made of a different plastic material that minimizes wear and friction between the shaft surface and the pedal drum surface. The pedal shaft includes opposed key shaped ends that are inserted into respective key hole shaped through-holes defined in the pedal assembly housing for aligning and securing the pedal shaft in the pedal housing.
Claims10
A vehicle pedal assembly comprising:
- a pedal housing including a pair of side walls defining a pair of respective through-holes;
- a rotatable pedal including a drum extending into the pedal housing, the drum defining a through-hole;
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- a stationary pedal shaft extending through the through-hole defined in the drum of the pedal and into the respective through-holes defined in the respective side walls of the pedal housing, the pedal shaft being made of a first plastic material and including a bearing surface made of a second plastic material different than the first plastic material and adapted for abutting bearing contact with the interior surface of the drum of the pedal.
A vehicle pedal assembly comprising a stationary shaft extending through a rotatable pedal, the pedal shaft being made of a first material and including an exterior surface made of a second material different than the first material and in contact with an interior surface of the pedal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.