PEDAL DEVICE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE

• US 20100071500A1
• Filed: 08/10/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
• Inventors: Takeda, Yusaku, Iwamoto, Asami, Umetsu, Daisuke, Uemura, Hiroki, Ohtsubo, Tomonori
• Application Number:
  US12/538,675
• Publication Number:
  US 20100071500A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 74/513
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 1/36 Mounting units comprising an assembly of two or more pedals, e.g. for facilitating mounting
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 1/60 Foot rests or foot guides
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20534 Accelerator

Abstract

There is provided a pedal device of an automotive vehicle, which comprises a plate-shaped pedal body, a lower end of which is rotatably supported at a pivot (support axis) which is disposed on a vehicle floor at a position where a foot of a driver seated in a driver'"'"'s seat is to be located, the pedal body being provided so as to rotate around the pivot and swing longitudinally according to a pressing operation of the driver'"'"'s foot, and a slant-face member which is provided behind the pivot which supports the lower end of the pedal body, the slant-face member having a slant upper face which extends obliquely rearward and downward with a slant angle within a rage of 13.5 to 23.5 degrees.

Claims

1. A pedal device of an automotive vehicle, comprising:

a plate-shaped pedal body, a lower end of which is rotatably supported at a pivot which is disposed on a vehicle floor at a position where a foot of a driver seated in a driver'"'"'s seat is to be located, the pedal body being provided so as to rotate around the pivot and swing longitudinally according to a pressing operation of the driver'"'"'s foot; and

a slant-face member provided behind said pivot which supports the lower end of said pedal body, the slant-face member having a slant upper face which extends obliquely rearward and downward with a slant angle within a rage of 13.5 to 23.5 degrees.

2. The pedal device of an automotive vehicle of claim 1, wherein said pedal body includes a pressing portion which a ball of a foot of the driver who places a heel thereof on the slant upper face of said slant-face member contacts, and the pressing portion of the pedal body has a convex face which projects rearward of the vehicle.

3. The pedal device of an automotive vehicle of claim 2, wherein said pedal body is a pedal body of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle, a brake pedal is disposed on a left side of the accelerator pedal, and a layout of the accelerator pedal and the brake pedal is configured in such a manner that an imaginary line which extends obliquely downward and toward a right side from a pressing portion of the brake pedal with an inclination angle of about 45 degrees passes through a lower half portion of said convex face of the pressing portion of the accelerator pedal.

4. The pedal device of an automotive vehicle of claim 2, wherein a concave face portion is formed at the pedal body which is located between said pressing portion and said pivot, the concave face portion being configured to be recessed forward from an imaginary line which connects the pressing portion and the pivot of the pedal body, and an S-shaped continuous curve face of the pedal body is formed by said concave face portion and said convex face portion.

5. The pedal device of an automotive vehicle of claim 4, further comprising a base member of a pedal unit which supports said pedal body, wherein said slant-face member and the base member are formed integrally.

6. The pedal device of an automotive vehicle of claim 3, wherein a concave face portion is formed at the pedal body which is located between said pressing portion and said pivot, the concave face portion being configured to be recessed forward from an imaginary line which connects the pressing portion and the pivot of the pedal body, and an S-shaped continuous curve face of the pedal body is formed by said concave face portion and said convex face portion.

7. The pedal device of an automotive vehicle of claim 6, further comprising a base member of a pedal unit which supports said pedal body, wherein said slant-face member and the base member are formed integrally.