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US 8,806,978 B2Granted
Accelerator device
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsTakehiro Saito, Masahiro Makino, Hiroshi Saji
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Abstract
An accelerator device includes: an accommodation part; a rotation shaft having a first end and a second end that are supported by the accommodation part; a pedal part having a first end fixed to the rotation shaft and a second end to be pressed by a driver of a vehicle in an open direction; a return mechanism part biasing the rotation shaft to be rotated in a close direction opposite from the open direction; and a seal member restricting a foreign matter from entering an interior space of the accommodation part.
Claims2
An accelerator device comprising:
- an accommodation part to be attached to a vehicle;
- a rotation shaft having a first end and a second end that are supported by the accommodation part;
- a pedal part including
- a pedal arm having a first end fixed to the rotation shaft and
- a pedal arranged to a second end of the pedal arm to be pressed by a driver of the vehicle in an open direction;
- a rotation angle detector accommodated in an interior space of the accommodation part and detecting a rotation angle of the rotation shaft with respect to the accommodation part;
- a return mechanism part accommodated in the interior space of the accommodation part and biasing the rotation shaft to be rotated in a close direction opposite from the open direction;
- a seal member arranged in a clearance through which the interior space of the accommodation part communicates with an arm accommodation space accommodating the pedal arm, the seal member restricting a foreign matter from entering the interior space of the accommodation part;
- and
- wherein the arm accommodation space and the accommodation part are partitioned from each other by a first wall and a second wall perpendicular with each other,
- the first wall spreads in a direction perpendicular to the rotation shaft,
- the first wall has a through hole corresponding to the clearance,
- the rotation shaft passes through the through hole, and
- the seal member is arranged between a wall surface of the through hole and an outer wall of the rotation shaft.
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