ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,304, issued on May 20, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle pedal module" was invented by Kengo Ito (Kariya, Japan), Daisuke Hokuto (Kariya, Japan), Etsugo Yanagida (Kariya, Japan), Masashi Arao (Kariya, Japan) and Yasuhisa Fukuda (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle pedal module includes a brake pedal device and an accelerator pedal device. The brake pedal device has a brake pedal first housing configured to rotatably support a brake pedal rotating shaft and to cover a brake-pedal reaction force generation mechanism, and a brake pedal second housing configured to support an end portion of the brak...