# US 8,464,691 B2 · Accelerator device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,464,691 B2 - Document ID: US8464691B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/690,455 - Filed: 2012-11-30 - Published: 2013-04-11 - Granted: 2013-06-18 - Earliest claimed: 2010-06-02 - Assignees: Mikuni Corporation - Applicants: Mikuni Corporation - Inventors: Masaki Hiei; Keigo Suzuki - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8464691B2 ## CPC - F02D 9/00: Controlling engines by throttling air or fuel-and-air induction conduits or exhaust conduits - B62K 23/04: Twist grips - F02D 11/02: characterised by hand, foot, or like operator controlled initiation means - Y10T 74/20828: Handholds and grips - F02D: CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES (vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle speed B60K31/00; conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function, road vehicle drive control systems for purposes other than the control of a single sub-unit B60W) - B62K: CYCLES; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE SIDECARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract An accelerator device capable of achieving miniaturization and easily varying torque characteristics with a simple structure. The accelerator device includes a housing, a grip-side rotary body which is rotated with accelerator operation, a friction member including a contact portion to apply resistance due to friction as being contacted to the grip-side rotary body, an urging member which is connected to the housing via the friction member and connected to the grip-side rotary body and which urges the grip-side rotary body to rotate to an initial position side, and a restriction portion which is arranged at the housing and which restricts rotation of the friction member with the urging force of the urging member as being contacted to the friction member. Here, the friction member is urged by the urging member in a direction that the contact portion is pressed to an outer circumferential face of the rotary body having the restriction portion as a fulcrum. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An accelerator device, comprising: a housing; a rotary body which is rotated with accelerator operation; a friction member which is arranged at a periphery of the rotary body while being provided with a contact portion to apply resistance due to friction as being contacted to the rotary body; an urging member having one end side engaged with the rotary body and the other end side engaged with the friction member; and a restriction portion which is arranged at the housing and which restricts rotation of the friction member with urging force of the urging member as being contacted to the friction member, wherein the urging member urges the rotary body in a direction to return to an initial position of rotation against the housing owing to that rotation of the friction member is restricted against the housing by the restriction member when the rotary body is rotated against the housing; and the friction member is urged by the urging member in a direction that the contact portion is pressed to the rotary body having the restriction portion as a fulcrum. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The accelerator device according to claim 1, wherein the friction member is provided with the contact portion being apart from a contact position of contacting to the restriction portion so that the contact portion is swingable in a direction of pressing the contact portion to the rotary body having the restriction portion as a fulcrum. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The accelerator device according to claim 2, wherein the friction member is provided with the contact portion which is spaced from the contact position of contacting to the restriction portion in a circumferential direction of the rotary body as being aligned in the circumferential direction. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The accelerator device according to claim 3, wherein the friction member is annulus-shaped or arc-shaped along the circumferential direction of the rotary body having a face which is oriented to the rotary body side except for the contact portion arranged as being spaced from the rotary body in a state that the contact portion is contacted to the rotary body. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The accelerator device according to claim 3, wherein a contact position of contacting to the restriction portion and an engagement position of engaging with the urging member are arranged apart in the friction member so that the friction member is swung with urging force of the urging member having the restriction portion as a fulcrum. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The accelerator device according to claim 5, wherein the contact position of contacting to the restriction portion and the engagement position of engaging with the urging member are spaced in the friction member in a circumferential direction of the rotary body as being aligned in the circumferential direction. ### Claim 7 (depends on 2) The accelerator device according to claim 2, wherein the friction member is annulus-shaped or arc-shaped along the circumferential direction of the rotary body having a face which is oriented to the rotary body side except for the contact portion arranged as being spaced from the rotary body in a state that the contact portion is contacted to the rotary body. ### Claim 8 (depends on 2) The accelerator device according to claim 2, wherein a contact position of contacting to the restriction portion and an engagement position of engaging with the urging member are arranged apart in the friction member so that the friction member is swung with urging force of the urging member having the restriction portion as a fulcrum. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The accelerator device according to claim 8, wherein the contact position of contacting to the restriction portion and the engagement position of engaging with the urging member are spaced in the friction member in a circumferential direction of the rotary body as being aligned in the circumferential direction. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The accelerator device according to claim 1, wherein the friction member is annulus-shaped or arc-shaped along the circumferential direction of the rotary body having a face which is oriented to the rotary body side except for the contact portion arranged as being spaced from the rotary body in a state that the contact portion is contacted to the rotary body. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The accelerator device according to claim 1, wherein a contact position of contacting to the restriction portion and an engagement position of engaging with the urging member are arranged apart in the friction member so that the friction member is swung with urging force of the urging member having the restriction portion as a fulcrum. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The accelerator device according to claim 11, wherein the contact position of contacting to the restriction portion and the engagement position of engaging with the urging member are spaced in the friction member in a circumferential direction of the rotary body as being aligned in the circumferential direction.