US Patent Issued to DENSO on Nov. 4 for "Pedal device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,467, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Pedal device" was invented by Daisuke Hokuto (Kariya, Japan), Etsugo Yanagida (Kariya, Japan), Yuki Matsunaga (Kariya, Japan), Masashi Arao (Kariya, Japan) and Atsushi Nishimura (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At a pedal device, a force applied from a pedal at a time of rotating the pedal moves a first guide portion of a first holder to slide relative to a second guide portion of a second holder in a vehicle front-rear direction, resulting in deformation of a first resilient member. Furthermore, the force applied from the pedal at the time of rotating t...