ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,010, issued on April 29, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Accelerator device" was invented by Takuto Kita (Kariya, Japan), Noriyuki Inagaki (Kariya, Japan), Yuta Fujinaka (Kariya, Japan) and Hideyuki Mori (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission mechanism of an accelerator device includes a first power transmission member, a second power transmission member, a coupling elastic member, and an actuator lever, and applies a reaction force to a pedal lever via the first power transmission member, the second power transmission member, and the actuator lever using a driving force of a drive source. The...