US Patent Issued to DENSO on March 11 for "Pedal device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,332, issued on March 11, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Pedal device" was invented by Takao Yamamoto (Kariya, Japan), 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 attached to a vehicle body. A pedal pad of the pedal device is provided rotatably about a predetermined rotation axis with respect to the housing, and a stepped portion of the pedal pad is arranged above the rotation axis in a vertical direction of the vehicle. The pedal pad rotates in a forward direction in accordance with an in...