Brake pedal device
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsKenichiro TAKENAKA, Yuki MATSUNAGA
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Abstract
A housing is fixed to a vehicle. A shaft is rotatably mounted on the housing about a predetermined axis. A brake pedal is fixed to the shaft and operates around an axis of the shaft. A sensor device outputs a signal that detects a position of the shaft and the brake pedal relative to the housing, or a signal that detects a load applied to the brake pedal. A first fixing portion fixes a sensor component constituting at least a part of the sensor device to the housing or the brake pedal. A second fixing portion fixes the sensor component to the housing or the brake pedal using a fixing method different from that of the first fixing portion.
Claims1
A brake pedal device used in a brake-by-wire system in which a brake mechanism brakes a vehicle under drive control of an electronic control device mounted on the vehicle, the brake pedal device, comprising:
- a housing fixed directly or indirectly to the vehicle;
- a shaft rotatably provided around a predetermined axis relative to the housing within a predetermined angle range;
- a brake pedal fixed to the shaft and configured to operate within a predetermined angle range around the axis;
- a sensor device that outputs a signal detecting positions of the shaft and the brake pedal relative to the housing to the electronic control device;
- a first fixing portion that fixes a sensor component constituting at least a part of the sensor device to the housing or the brake pedal;
- and a second fixing portion that fixes the sensor component and the housing or the brake pedal by a fixing method different from that of the first fixing portion, wherein the first fixing portion is a portion that fixes the sensor component and the housing by press-fitting, and the second fixing portion is a portion that fixes the sensor component and the housing by snap-fitting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.