HYSTERESIS CHARACTERIZING TYPED ELECTRO PEDAL DEVICE

• US 20100012442A1
• Filed: 09/08/2008
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Inhwan, KOO, Changhoe
• Application Number:
  US12/206,061
• Publication Number:
  US 20100012442A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 188/72.900
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/042 by electrical means, e.g. using travel or force sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 1/30 Controlling members actuated by foot
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 5/03 Means for enhancing the operator's awareness of arrival of the controlling member at a command or datum position; Providing feel, e.g. means for creating a counterforce arrangements for indicating the position of the controlling member G05G1/015

Abstract

According to the electro pedal of the present invention, a pedal simulator is achieved by a variable damper including a piston operating with an operation rod connected to a pedal and elastically supported by first and second springs having different elasticity, a piston flange having a flow channel, through which the oil passes, at the end of piston elastically supported by second spring in a chamber filled with the oil, and a rubber cup being in close contact with piston flange and changing the flow rate of oil while being elastically deformed by the hydraulic pressure according to the flow direction of the oil, such that hysteresis characteristics showing pedal effort without difference can be achieved, such as when hydraulic pressure is used, not only generating simple linear pedal effort and a damping force from a fixed damping coefficient in operation and return stroke of pedal.

Claims

1. A hysteresis characterizing typed electro pedal device comprising:

a pedal that is hinged at one end by a pedal member to be stamped by a driver; and

a pedal simulator that changes a damping force by operation and return stroke of the pedal by allowing oil filled in a chamber to flow backward through a piston flange formed at one end of a piston connected to the pedal when the piston is pushed in the chamber of a housing by operation of the pedal, and by discharging the oil through the piston flange when the piston is pushed out of the chamber of the housing by return of the pedal and discharging the oil through a gap between a cup that is compressed by oil pressure and the inside of the chamber.

2. The hysteresis characterizing typed electro pedal device as defined in claim 1, the simulator includes:

the housing that has the chamber receiving the oil, which is liquid filler, therein, and is attached to a car body behind the pedal;

the piston that moves forward/backward in the chamber by an operation rod fixed to the pedal;

a sealing member that maintains airtightness by closing an inlet of the chamber;

a pair of springs that generates pedal effort while being compressed when the piston is pushed back; and

a variable damper that changes the damping force according to the movement direction of the piston by increasing the flow rate of the oil in the chamber when the piston comes out more than the flow rate of the oil in the chamber when the piston is pushed back.

3. The hysteresis characterizing typed electro pedal device as defined in claim 2, wherein the springs includes a first spring that is disposed in an expansion hole, which is coaxially expanded and formed in front of the chamber of the housing, and compressed when the piston is pushed, and

a second spring that is disposed in the chamber of the housing and compressed when the piston is pushed.

4. The hysteresis characterizing typed electro pedal device as defined in claim 2, wherein the variable damper includes the piston flange that coaxially expands at one end of the piston in the chamber of the housing and has a flow channel where the oil passes, and

an elastic cup that is fitted around the piston flange to discharge the oil to the front while being compressed by pressure of the oil behind the piston flange when the piston passes through the chamber.

5. The hysteresis characterizing typed electro pedal device as defined in claim 4, wherein the piston flange has a front flange that coaxially expands with piston at one end of the piston and a rear flange that is coaxially formed at a distance behind the front flange and has a larger diameter than the front flange, and a cup seat having a larger diameter than the piston is formed between the front flange and the rear flange.

6. The hysteresis characterizing typed electro pedal device as defined in claim 5, a flow channel is formed from the front flange having the larger diameter than the piston to the rear flange through the cup seat.

7. The hysteresis characterizing typed electro pedal device as defined in claim 6, wherein a plurality of the flow channels are formed.

8. The hysteresis characterizing typed electro pedal device as defined in claim 4, wherein the cup has a diameter such that the front portion is in close contact with the front flange and the rear portion is in close contact with the rear flange and the inside of chamber, when being fitted on the cup seat of the piston flange.

9. The hysteresis characterizing typed electro pedal device as defined in claim 2, wherein the variable damper includes the piston flange that coaxially expands at one end of the piston disposed in the chamber of the housing and has a flow channel where the oil passes, at a position of which the diameter is larger than the diameter of the piston, and

the rubber cup that has a flow channel corresponding to the flow channel of the piston flange when being fitted around the piston flange.