ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,029, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Pedal device" was invented by Daisuke Hokuto (Kariya, Japan), Etsugo Yanagida (Kariya, Japan) and Yasuhisa Fukuda (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organ-type pedal device includes a housing, a shaft, a pedal pad, and a sensor unit. The housing is attached to a vehicle body. The shaft is rotatably supported around a center of a shaft receiving portion provided in the housing as a rotation axis. The pedal pad is fixed to the shaft and rotates about a same rotation axis as the shaft. The pedal pad has a structure in which a portion to be stepped on by ...