公开(公告)号：US20240201725A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18586887

申请日：2024-02-26

Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION

Inventor： Masashi ARAO ,  Etsugo YANAGIDA ,  Daisuke HOKUTO ,  Atsushi NISHIMURA ,  Kengo ITO ,  Genki SUZUKI ,  Hiroto YOSHIDA

IPC: G05G1/44 ,  G05G1/46

CPC classification number: G05G1/44 ,  G05G1/46

Abstract: A pedal pad includes a plate part having a plate shape. When a driver performs a depression operation on a plate part from one side in a plate thickness direction, the pedal pad rotates about an axis perpendicular to an extending direction of the plate part. A shaft member is provided at a position away and downward in a vehicle from the plate part. A housing rotatably supports the shaft member. A connecting portion connects the pedal pad and the shaft member. Such a pedal device is an organ-type pedal device in which a pedal lower end is positioned below in the vehicle than a pedal upper end when the plate part is not subject to the depression operation by the driver in the non-depressed state. The pedal device is provided with a gap between the housing and the pedal lower end.

公开(公告)号：US20200263574A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-20

申请号：US16865805

申请日：2020-05-04

Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION

Inventor： Genki SUZUKI

IPC: F01L1/352

Abstract: A cam plate is coupled to a driven-side shaft and is rotatable relative to a housing. A gear is placed on a side of the cam plate, which is opposite to the driven-side shaft. The housing has a contact surface that is configured to contact a wall surface of the cam plate, which is located on one side in an axial direction of the housing. Among two external toothed portions, one external toothed portion is located on an opposite side of the contact surface, which is opposite to the gear in the axial direction. The cam plate has a bearing portion that is located on a side of the contact surface, which is opposite to the gear, and the bearing portion has an outer peripheral surface configured to receive a radial load applied from an inner peripheral surface of the housing in a radially inward direction.

公开(公告)号：US20250036154A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-30

申请号：US18911775

申请日：2024-10-10

Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION

Inventor： Genki SUZUKI ,  Etsugo YANAGIDA

IPC: G05G1/50 ,  B60T7/04 ,  B60T7/06

Abstract: A pedal pad includes a tread portion depressed by a driver, is fixed to a pad holder, and is displaced together with the pad holder with respect to a support when depressed. A load sensor is fixed to the pad holder and detects a pedal effort of the driver acting on the pedal pad. A pedal effort transmission member includes a pressing portion that presses the load sensor to transmit the pedal effort to the load sensor, and is placed between the tread portion and both the load sensor and the pad holder, and pressed by the tread portion. The pedal pad holds the pedal effort transmission member against the pad holder so that the pressing portion is pressed against the load sensor by the elastic deformation of the pedal pad when the depression operation is not performed.

公开(公告)号：US20190136723A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-09

申请号：US16173124

申请日：2018-10-29

Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION

Inventor： Akira IWASAKI ,  Genki SUZUKI

IPC: F01L1/352 ,  F01L1/348

CPC classification number: F01L1/352 ,  F01L1/024 ,  F01L1/348 ,  F01L2001/0537 ,  F01L2103/00 ,  F01L2103/01 ,  F01L2250/02 ,  F01L2250/04 ,  F01L2820/032

Abstract: A housing is rotatable synchronously with a crankshaft of an engine. A plurality of external teeth arrangements is respectively shaped into a ring form and is formed integrally with the housing in one piece and is configured to mesh with a plurality of chains, respectively, each of which is wound around the crankshaft or a sprocket that is rotatable. A cam plate is connected to a camshaft of the engine and is rotatable relative to the housing. A plurality of stoppers is formed integrally with the housing in one piece while the stoppers are configured to limit relative rotation between the housing and the cam plate within a predetermined range when the stoppers contact the cam plate. Each stopper is placed at a position, at which the stopper does not overlap with any of the external teeth arrangements in a view taken in an axial direction of the housing.