US Patent Issued to DENSO on Oct. 14 for "Accelerator device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,215, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Accelerator device" was invented by Soichi Kinouchi (Kariya, Japan), Yuusuke Yoshida (Kariya, Japan), Tetsuji Yamanaka (Kariya, Japan), Takuto Kita (Kariya, Japan) and Yuta Fujinaka (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accelerator device includes a pedal lever, a power transmission mechanism, and a control unit. The pedal lever is movable in response to a pedal depression operation, and is biased in a return direction by a pedal biasing member. The power transmission mechanism includes an actuator lever that is contactable with the pedal lever and is bi...