ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,756, issued on May 6, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Pedal device" was invented by Yasuhisa Fukuda (Kariya, Japan), Etsugo Yanagida (Kariya, Japan), Daisuke Hokuto (Kariya, Japan) and Takao Yamamoto (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedal device mounted on a vehicle includes a housing, a pedal pad, and a reaction force generation mechanism. The housing is mounted on a vehicle body. The pedal pad is provided to be rotatable with respect to the housing. The reaction force generation mechanism is configured to include a plurality of resilient members each having a predetermined leaf spring. The reaction forc...