US 5,666,860 AGranted

Gas pedal arrangement for a motor vehicle

AssigneeDr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft

InventorsHans-Uwe Baumann, Carsten-Joerg Mertens

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Abstract

A gas pedal arrangement for a motor vehicle has a pedal plate which is swivellably held on a pedal holding device in the form of a housing. This pedal plate is connected with an adjusting device. The pedal holding device consists of an oblong housing which includes two half shells and in which components of the adjusting device are held on bearing points molded on the inside. On the outside of the half shells, transversely extending catch hook strips are provided, and on an underside of the half shells directed toward the vehicle body, molded-on common centering domes are provided for the fastening and fixing of the position of the housing. A gas pull is connected with a deflecting lever in a suspended manner, the gas pull being guided in the base of the pedal plate on a swivellable deflecting pulley which has a circular-arc-shaped segment.

Claims12

Dependent claims

Gas pedal arrangement for a motor vehicle comprising:

a gas pull,
a pedal plate swivellably disposed on a pedal holding device in the form of a housing, and
an adjusting device connected with the pedal plate and the gas pull,
wherein the pedal holding device comprises an oblong housing which is formed of two half shells having bearing points molded on for components of the adjusting device,
wherein the gas pull is connected in a suspended manner with a deflecting lever of the adjusting device with the gas pull being guided in a base of the pedal plate on a swivellable deflecting pulley having a circular-arc shaped segment,
wherein the gas pull is held on the deflecting pulley by guiding devices which hold an outlet side of the gas pull against the deflecting pulley when the pedal plate is in an inoperative position and which hold an inlet side of the gas pull against the deflecting pulley when the pedal plate is in an operative position,
wherein the deflecting lever has a receiving device for suspending a pin fastened on an end of the gas pull, and
wherein the gas pull rests on a curved guiding surface of the deflecting lever when the pedal plate is swivelled from its inoperative position into its operative position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 08/457,123Filed 1 Jun 1995 · continuation in part
Priority: DE 43 43 681.121 Dec 1993
Granted: 16 Sep 1997
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G05G 1/36
Controlling members actuated by foot: mounting units comprising an assembly of two or more pedals, e.g. for facilitating mounting
B60K 26/02
Arrangement or mounting of propulsion-unit control devices in vehicles: of initiating means or elements
Y10T 74/20534
Foot operated: accelerator
Y10T 74/20888
Elements: pedals