Customizable pedal system
AssigneeBell Helicopter Textron Inc.
InventorsPasquale Spina, Brad Linton
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Abstract
A pedal system includes a support base; a first lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base; a second lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base; a first pedal coupled to the first lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of a user to rotate the first lever: a second pedal coupled to the second lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of the user to rotate the second lever, and an adjustment assembly configured to adjust a default rotational orientation, about an axis of rotation, of the first and the second lever, the first and the second lever positioned at the default orientation when no external force is applied to the first and the second lever.
Claims15
A pedal system comprising:
- a support base;
- a first lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base;
- a second lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base;
- a first pedal coupled to the first lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of a user to rotate the first lever;
- a second pedal coupled to the second lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of the user to rotate the second lever;
- a crank coupled to the first and the second lever, the first lever or the second lever, or both the first and the second levers, being rotatable from a default rotational orientation, about an axis of rotation, of the first and the second lever to actuate the crank, and
- an adjustment assembly configured to adjust a position of the crank to modify the default rotational orientation of the first and the second lever, the first and the second lever positioned at the same default orientation in absence of an external force applied to the first and the second lever to move the first and the second lever,
- wherein the default rotational orientation of the first and the second lever with respect to the support base is adjustable without actuating the crank.
An aircraft comprising a pedal system comprising
- a support base;
- a first lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base;
- a second lever that is pivotally mounted to the support base;
- a first pedal coupled to the first lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of a user to rotate the first lever;
- a second pedal coupled to the second lever and configured to be engaged by a foot of the user to rotate the second lever;
- a crank coupled to the first and the second lever, the first lever or the second lever, or both the first and the second levers, being rotatable from a default rotational orientation, about an axis of rotation, of the first and the second lever to actuate the crank, and
- an adjustment assembly configured to adjust a position of the crank to modify the default rotational orientation of the first and the second lever, the first and the second lever positioned at the same default orientation in absence of an external force applied to the first and the second lever to move the first and the second lever,
- wherein the default rotational orientation of the first and the second lever with respect to the support base is adjustable without actuating the crank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.