Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

F-tech Inc.

Otsuka Koki Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsuba Corporation

Hondalock Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Hideto Nebuya

Kohei Maruyama

Naoto Sen

Go Suzaki

Takayuki Yoshimura

Toru Ebara

Yoshikazu Sato

Toshihiko Sato

Satoru Masuda

Takashi Sugiyama

Naoto Shibui

Ayumu Yamaguchi

Jiro Hamada

Masateru Momozu

Tomoya Sugiyama

Shigeki Nomura

Teruo Kato

Yukiyoshi Akutsu

Masato Kobayashi

Yosuke Horiuchi

Toshiaki Arai

Kenji Hattori

Hiroyuki Kouzuma

Tsuyoshi Maruyama

Hirotaka Takiguchi

Susumu Iwamoto

Masatoshi Kubota

Shinji Kumagai

Kohei Hirotani

Shinji Oka

Tomohiro Sakuraba

Terumasa Hoshino

Yasunori Noro

Masaru Kanda

Motomasa Suzuki

Kiyohiro Mando

Hidemasa Shukuri

Takayuki Hira

Mitsunori Hirai

Tomoyuki Kinoshita

Ken Muto

Takuya Shirahata

Koji Terasaki

Toshimi Kitamura

Tomoaki Abe

Yoshio Abe, Legal Representative

Tsuyoshi Kobayashi

Yusuke Muramatsu

An acceleration pedal reaction force control device imparts to a driver a sensation (feeling) of an appropriate reaction force in accordance for example with an intention of/operation performed by the driver. The acceleration pedal reaction force control device is configured such that when a stepping amount on the acceleration pedal has become equal to or exceeded a threshold stepping amount, whether a reaction force increase rate at which a base reaction force increases to a target reaction force with the threshold stepping amount should be made variable or a reaction force increase amount (enhancing reaction force) for causing the base reaction force to increase to the target reaction force with the threshold stepping amount should be made variable can be set. Thereby, a sensation (feeling) of an appropriate reaction force can be imparted to a driver in accordance for example with an intention of/an operation performed by the driver.

Accelerator pedal reaction force control device

Provided is a pedal reactive force controller including: a reaction force adding unit for adding reaction force to a pedal operated by a driver; and an information transmission unit for converting a depression amount of the pedal detected by a stroke sensor into visual information, and conveying the depression amount to the driver by displaying the visual information in an operation amount display section.

Pedal reactive force controller

A reaction force pedal device provided with pedal members operated by a driver, a motor which applies a reaction force to the pedal members through an arm member which is always connected to the pedal members, and a clutch arranged between the motor and the arm member. When the pedal members are displaced, the clutch is temporarily released.

Reaction force pedal device

A reaction force output device includes: a motor that is a drive source that creates a reaction force; a reaction force output shaft that interlocks with an output shaft of the motor to rotate; and an interlocking arm that transmits output torque of the motor which is input to the reaction force output shaft to an operation pedal. A torque limiting mechanism, which limits the transmission of torque that is equal to or greater than a specified value between the reaction force output shaft and the interlocking arm, is interposed between the reaction force output shaft and the interlocking arm.

Reaction force output device

A pedal reaction force applying device includes an acceleration pedal used in a stepping-in operation and a returning operation, a motor configured to apply a pedal reaction force acting on an acceleration pedal in the stepping-in operation and the returning operation, a power transmitting device provided between the acceleration pedal and the motor and including a speed-reduction mechanism, an operation direction determiner configured to determine an operation direction of the acceleration pedal, and a reaction force controller configured to control the pedal reaction force on the acceleration pedal. The reaction force controller controls a magnitude of the pedal reaction force by controlling a power of the motor based on the operation direction of the acceleration pedal determined by the operation direction determiner.

Pedal reaction force applying device

Display panel or portion thereof with animated icon for vehicle meter

A vehicle accelerator pedal apparatus including: a pedal-side arm supported, so as to allow rotation toward the front and rear of the vehicle, by a support shaft in a housing; a pad in the pedal-side arm that can be operated by stepping; and a reaction force application mechanism for applying reaction force to the pedal-side arm. The reaction force application mechanism includes a drive source for generating the reaction force, and a transmission member for transmitting the reaction force generated by the drive source to the pedal-side arm. The reaction force application mechanism is arranged higher than the housing. The pedal-side arm has an extension part that is extended on the opposite side from the pad across the support shaft, and from the pedal-side arm to the transmission member.

Vehicle accelerator pedal apparatus

An accelerator-pedal-counterforce control device for a vehicle, wherein a counterforce control means sets a value obtained by multiplying a prescribed quantity by a constant-speed position as a counterforce-increase position. The counterforce-increase position is a position of the accelerator pedal at which the counterforce on the accelerator pedal is increased from the base counterforce. The constant-speed position is a position of the accelerator pedal at which constant travel at the current vehicle speed is possible. The prescribed quantity is set as a value for achieving forward-rear acceleration according to each vehicle speed.

Accelerator-pedal-counterforce control device and vehicle

In a reactive force pedal device, between a motor-side output shaft and a pedal member, a one-way clutch is provided which allows transmittance of rotational force when performing a depressing operation of the pedal member and disables transmittance of the rotational force when performing a revert operation of the pedal member.

Reactive force pedal device

An accelerator pedal reaction force control device for controlling a depression reaction force of an accelerator pedal provided to a motor vehicle, the control device including: a reaction force actuator that provides the accelerator pedal with a depression reaction force; a target reaction force setting unit that sets a target depression reaction force; and a vehicle speed maintenance depression amount setting unit that sets an amount of depression of the accelerator pedal for maintaining a current vehicle speed as a vehicle speed maintenance depression amount, wherein, when a pedal depression amount exceeds the vehicle speed maintenance depression amount, the target reaction force setting unit performs a cruize assist whereby the target depression reaction force is set to a value of a cruize assist depression reaction force.

A reaction force control unit calculates a driver's requested output and then estimates a maximum output that can be generated by an engine in a current cylinder deactivation operation. Next, the reaction force control unit calculates a difference between the maximum output and the requested output as an output difference and then determines whether the output difference has reached a predetermined reaction force start threshold value, and if the determination result is Yes, the reaction force control unit estimates a number of to-be-reactivated cylinders on the basis of the output difference and the current cylinder deactivation operation state. Subsequently, the reaction force control unit sets a target reaction force on the basis of the output difference and the number of to-be-reactivated cylinders, and outputs drive current to a reaction force actuator.

An object of the present invention is to provide a pedal device in which the pad member can be fixed to the stopper member easily at the time of mounting, and which does not tend to be degraded over the years. In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a pedal device including: a stopper member attached to a floor of a driver's seat of a vehicle; and a pad member which has a pad fitted into the stopper member and receives a depression force exerted by a driver.

Pedal device

Disclosed is a reaction force pedal device provided with pedal members operated by a driver, a motor which applies a reaction force to the pedal members through an arm member which is always connected to the pedal members, and a clutch arranged between the motor and the arm member. When the pedal members are displaced, the clutch is temporarily released.

A base frameis such as to be fixedly provided on a body so that a parking brake deviceis provided thereon which causes a brake applying portion of a parking brake to apply the brake and release the brake so applied, a base frame main bodyis molded into an integral unit, a parking device mounting portionA where the parking brake deviceis mounted is formed on one side A of the base frame man body, and a gearshift device mounting portionB where a gearshift device of a transmission is provided is formed on the other side B thereof.

Base frame and parking brake device

A vehicular footrest includes a footrest part () for making contact with a foot (F) of a vehicle occupant (M), and a footrest base member (). The footrest has a front surface load absorption mechanism () for absorbing a load applied to a firewall (), and a lower limb load absorption mechanism () for absorbing a load applied from a vehicle occupant to the footrest part ().

Footrest for vehicle

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