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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070151398 | Mechanical organ type accelarator pedal The present invention relates to a mechanical organ type accelerator pedal which includes: a housing that is fixedly disposed to a floor panel under a driver's seat; a foot plate whose one end is coupled hingedly with the housing and the other end is disposed to be rota... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070137399 | ELECTRONIC THROTTLE CONTROL WITH HYSTERESIS DEVICE An electronically controlled pedal assembly with hysteresis includes a mounting bracket and pedal arm and a pedal support arm extending therebetween. The pedal arm is pivotally mounted to the pedal support arm at a pedal arm pivot point. The pedal support arm is pivotal... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070137401 | Slide locking motorcycle kick arm A slide locking motorcycle kick arm with a foot pedal and a kick arm shaft that is attachable to an engine kick starter, where the foot pedal can rotate to be in the kick start position and rotated out of the way when kick starting is completed. The foot pedal can be lo... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070137400 | Accelerator pedal for a vehicle A pedal assembly that provides a hysteresis in pedal force-response upon actuation is provided. The pedal assembly includes a housing and a pedal arm that has an end. The end has a rotatable drum that defines a braking surface. The pedal arm is rotatably mounted to the ... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070095163 | Accelerator pedal device An accelerator pedal device is fixed through a housing to a car body. By pedaling on an accelerator pedal arm supported pivotally by the housing, the accelerator pedal arm and a interlocking member rotationally move integrally, and by a torsion spring provided between a... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070000345 | Accelerator pedal for a motor vehicle A pedal assembly includes a pedal element 12 that may be displaced with respect to a base element 14 along its actuation path. The pedal element 12 may swivel out along the actuation direction B. A rotating element 26 is so linked to the peda... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060207381 | Elastic hysteretic palpatory training apparatus and method of use thereof An apparatus for elastic hysteretic palpatory training includes a wire or a computer controlled actuator having a plunger that at least partially elastically resists the application of a palpatory force. In use of the apparatus, an increasing palpatory force is applied ... | 09/21/2006 |
| 20060157028 | Common use pedal device for automotive vehicles A common use pedal device for automotive vehicles comprises a base plate and a pedal pivotably attached to the base plate and having a push rod extending downwards from an underneath surface of the pedal. A rotating member is mounted to the base plate in such a manner t... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060130603 | Accelerator pedal apparatus and method for adjusting accelerator pedal apparatus An accelerator pedal is positioned at a kickdown position. Then, an output value of a measurement device of an accelerator pedal position sensor is measured. Thereafter, the measured output value of the measurement device is stored in a correction output value storage o... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20050268741 | Floor pedal with a rotation angle sensor A pedal element (2) with a connecting device (5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16) can be moved between an idle position and a full-throttle position of an internal combustion engine at a pedal angle ranging between 0° and 5° to 30°. A signal-generating ... | 12/08/2005 |
| 20050247158 | Electronic throttle control with hysteresis device An electronically controlled pedal assembly with hysteresis includes a housing having a front wall and an arcuate friction wall having a radius of curvature centered on a pedal arm pivot point and extending from an edge of the front wall. The pedal assembly also include... | 11/10/2005 |
| 20050223841 | Inductive sensor for vehicle electronic throttle control An apparatus for allowing electronic engine speed control comprises a transmitter coil, a receiver coil providing a receiver signal when the transmitter coil is excited due to an inductive coupling to the transmitter coil, and a coupler element mechanically associated w... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050217410 | Gas pedal An accelerator pedal (100) includes a stopper member (30) fixed to the floor of the driver's seat, a pad member (20) fastened to the stopper member (30) and operated by the driver's depression force, an arm (4) engaged with the pad mem... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050183535 | Pedal module A pedal module includes a double coil spring, a pedal, and a damping part. The double coil spring includes an outside coil and an inside coil. The pedal turns in a forward direction when a depressing force is applied thereto and turns in a reverse direction when a resto... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050178234 | Accelerator An accelerator capable of detecting a turning angle of an accelerator pedal with high accuracy includes a bearing part, an urging part, an accelerator pedal, a stopper, and a turning angle sensor. The accelerator pedal has a turning shaft supported by the bearing part a... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050155448 | Accelerator pedal module with friction hysteresis In an accelerator pedal module for a motor vehicle comprising an accelerator pedal for controlling an internal combustion engine and an accelerator pedal lever which is subjected to different frictional moments, depending on its pivot position so as to provide a hystere... | 07/21/2005 |
| 20050081676 | Accelerator pedal apparatus for a vehicle An accelerator pedal apparatus of a vehicle is attached with a pedal plate at one end of one side and includes, at another end of the other side a pedal link member having an insertion recess. A weight member is detachable from and attachable to the insertion recess of ... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050034292 | Electronic control pedal position sensing device assembly method A position sensor for an electronic control pedal is carried by the pedal mounting bracket and includes a linear potentiometer having a slider operable along a substrate in only a linear direction for providing an output voltage representative of slider displacement. A ... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050034555 | Electronic pedal assembly and method for providing a tuneable hysteresis force An electronic throttle control pedal pivotally couples a lever arm to a pedal beam and biases the beam for resisting an applying force to the pedal beam and for biasing sliding surfaces together in frictional contact. A compression spring carried between a mounting brac... | 02/17/2005 |
| 20050011493 | Accelerator pedal unit The present invention realtes to an accelerator pedal unit including a pedal, a return spring connected to the pedal, and a coupling element mounted on the pedal and connected to a permanent magnet rotor of a rotary magnet. ... | 01/20/2005 |
