US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 14 for "Pedal support structure and pedal support system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,725, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Pedal support structure and pedal support system" was invented by Eisuke Aoki (Toyota, Japan) and Tomio Ikeda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A left leg unit includes a vertical piece; a horizontal piece; a vertical guide groove; a horizontal guide groove; an outer coupling bar to which the vertical piece and the horizontal piece are rotatably coupled, thereby coupling the vertical piece and the horizontal piece to each other; and a pedal that is rotatably coupled to the outer coupling bar. The vertical guide groove and the horizontal guide gr...