US Patent Issued to DENSO on Aug. 12 for "Pedal device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,332, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Pedal device" was invented by Yasuhisa Fukuda (Kariya, Japan), Etsugo Yanagida (Kariya, Japan), Daisuke Hokuto (Kariya, Japan) and Takao Yamamoto (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arm includes an arm one end and an arm body extended from the arm one end. The arm is coupled with a pedal pad at the arm one end and is coupled with a reaction force generation mechanism on an counter-operation side. A stopper part is a component separate from the pedal pad and fixed to the pedal pad. One part, which is one of the pedal pad and the stopper part, includes a...