PEDAL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

• Main Authors: INOUE YOSHITAKA, KUNIHIRO SHINGO, TAKAHASHI SHUNICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.11.2012
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL; CONTROL DEVICES OR SYSTEMS INSOFAR AS CHARACTERISED BYMECHANICAL FEATURES ONLY; CONTROLLING; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OFVEHICLES; REGULATING; 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 device for vehicle capable of, at a frontal collision of the vehicle, preventing a tip of a foot from overriding a front end and interfering with a dash panel while reducing a burden on the foot of an occupant.SOLUTION: An accelerator pedal 8 is disposed in a vehicle rear part of a dash panel that is erected upward from a floor panel 2 forming a bottom face in a cabin 1, and is rotatably supported in the vehicle cross direction by the floor panel 2 in the vehicle front part of a driver's seat disposed on the floor panel 2. The accelerator pedal includes: a regulation section 83a for regulating the movement of a foot Xa of the occupant, at the front end 8A thereof; and an extension mechanism adapted to extend the front end 8A when a predetermined or more load is applied to the regulation section 83a. The extension mechanism includes a coil spring 84 that absorbs the load with the extension of the front end 8A.