ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,846, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Pedal device" was invented by Genki Suzuki (Kariya, Japan) and Etsugo Yanagida (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedal pad includes a tread portion depressed by a driver, is fixed to a pad holder, and is displaced together with the pad holder with respect to a support when depressed. A load sensor is fixed to the pad holder and detects a pedal effort of the driver acting on the pedal pad. A pedal effort transmission member includes a pressing portion that presses the load sensor to transmit the pedal effort to the load sensor, and is placed between the ...