ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,935, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Brake pedal device and brake system" was invented by Hiroyuki Akuzawa (Kariya, Japan), Toshiaki Yanagi (Kariya, Japan), Takamitsu Kubota (Kariya, Japan) and Yoshinori Inuzuka (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake pedal device includes: a housing fixed to a vehicle; a brake pedal provided to be swingable about a predetermined axis with respect to the housing and to receive a depression operation of a driver; and at least three sensors that output signals according to an operation amount of the brake pedal. The at least three sensors include at least ...