Pedal device for a motor vehicle, particularly for a brake system

• US 5,551,317 A
• Filed: 03/20/1995
• Issued: 09/03/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bendix Europe Services Techniques
• Original Assignee: AlliedSignal Europe Services Techniques
• Inventors: Verbo, Ulysse, Gautier, Jean-Pierre, Perez Revilla, Miguel
• Primary Examiner(s): Bonck, Rodney H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US08/122,559
• Time in Patent Office: 533 Days
• Field of Search: 74/512, 74/513, 74/514, 74/560, 403/79, 403/157, 16/DIG. 6, 16/DIG. 33, 16/342, 248/580, 248/632, 248/633, 248/634, 248/635
• US Class Current: 74/560
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/06 Disposition of pedal
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 1/30 Controlling members actuated by foot
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 1/46 Means, e.g. links, for connecting the pedal to the controlled unit
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 16/06 Anti-rattle
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20528 Foot operated
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20888 Pedals

Abstract

The invention relates to a pedal for a motor vehicle, particularly a brake pedal.

The pedal rod (50) is articulated on a pin borne by a yoke securely attached to the end of the control rod (56). According to one embodiment, the yoke and the pedal rod are held against the pin by a resilient system constituted by a spring-forming wire (100) which interacts with the surface (54) of the pedal rod and the ends of which are securely attached to the yoke.

Claims

1. A pedal device for a motor vehicle, comprising a first rod having a first end articulated on the vehicle and a second end attached securely to said pedal and a control rod, the control rod having a first end articulated by connecting means on a middle part of the first rod and a second end which interacts with a control assembly, the connecting means comprising a yoke having a base and two substantially parallel arms, said base attached securely to the first end of the control rod, a pivot pin engaged in an aperture of said first rod and in two apertures of said yoke, said first rod engaged between the arms of said yoke and having a first side toward said control rod and a second side, and resilient means bearing against said yoke so as to hold part of a wall of the aperture of the first rod against said pivot pin, characterized in that said resilient means comprises means interacting with the second side of the first rod for substantially immobilizing said first rod in translation relative to said yoke in the direction of said pivot pin.

2. The pedal device according to claim 1, characterized in that said resilient means comprises a part of resilient material and mechanical means for maintaining said part of resilient material against said second side of the first rod.

3. The pedal device according to claim 2, characterized in that the mechanical maintaining means comprises a caliper having two branches and a base part, said part of resilient material being attached securely to said base part and said branches attached securely, respectively, to the arms of said yoke.

4. The pedal device according to claim 2, characterized in that said part of resilient material comprises a recess in which is engaged the second side of said first rod, the width of said recess in the direction of the pivot pin being substantially equal to the thickness of said second side in said direction.

5. The pedal device according to claim 4, characterized in that the bottom of said recess of said part of resilient material has, in a plane orthogonal to said pivot pin, an incurvate cross-section interacting with an incurvate portion of the second side of said first rod.

6. The pedal device according to claim 1, characterized in that said resilient means comprises a spring-forming member having ends attached securely to said yoke and a middle portion of which is applied onto the second side of said first rod.

7. The pedal device according to claim 6, characterized in that the ends of said spring-forming member are attached securely to said yoke in order to immobilize in translation, in the direction of the pivot pin, said spring-forming member, and in that said middle portion of the spring-forming member has a recessed portion interacting with said second side of the first rod and with flanks of said second side.

8. The pedal device according to claim 6, characterized in that the second side of said first rod comprises a concave incurvate portion connected to the second side by two extensions, said spring-forming member interacting with said concave portion.

9. The pedal device according to claim 6, characterized in that said spring-forming member is a metal wire of circular cross-section constructed of a metallic material.