PEDAL SUPPORT STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE

• Main Authors: YAMAMOTO KATSUHIKO, MIYOSHI KEISUKE, TOMONO KAZUNORI, HIURA TETSUO, NOMURA FUMIHIKO, UCHIUMI HIROYUKI, MURAYAMA TAKASHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.10.2005
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL; CONTROL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS INSOFAR AS CHARACTERISED BYMECHANICAL FEATURES ONLY; CONTROLLING; LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS; MOTOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OFVEHICLES; REGULATING; TRAILERS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pedal support structure of a vehicle capable of certainly forcibly displacing a pedal to the forward side of the vehicle according to magnitude of collision of the vehicle. SOLUTION: This pedal support structure 30 of the vehicle swingably supporting a pedal device 34 to a pedal bracket 38 has: a vehicle body side reinforcement member 14; upper pedal members 44, 46; a lower pedal member 48 having the pedal 48c; an abutment member 50 having an abutment part 50g; and a connection mechanism 60 normally connecting the abutment member and the lower pedal member such that they are not relatively displaced, and forcibly displacing a portion 48b lower than a swinging shaft of the lower pedal member to the forward side of a vehicle body relatively to the upper pedal member by abutment of the abutment part on the vehicle body side reinforcement member at the time of the collision. The abutment member and the connection mechanism are configured such that a forcible displacement amount of the lower pedal member becomes large in a collision latter stage as compared to in a collision initial stage, at the time of the collision. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI