ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,004, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Brake pedal device" was invented by Kengo Ito (Kariya, Japan), Etsugo Yanagida (Kariya, Japan), Masashi Arao (Kariya, Japan), Daisuke Hokuto (Kariya, Japan) and Yasuhisa Fukuda (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake pedal device includes a pedal pad rotatable about an axis when stepped on by a driver, and a reaction force generation mechanism generating a reaction force to the pedal pad according to a stepping amount of the pedal pad. The pedal pad includes a pedal base portion extending away from an axis side end to another end, and a pedal operatio...