Hiruta-kogyo Co., Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Junji Ishii

Hiroshi Saito

Yoshitaka Noda

Motomasa Suzuki

Mitsuyori Gurita

Takurou Matsuda

Manabu Urata

Kenji Fujioka

Kenichi Suzuki

There is provided a pedal apparatus in which connection bracket is prevented from falling off from a pedal arm even if there is a welding defect. A pedal apparatus includes a pedal arm provided with an inclined portion, an upper retaining hole, and a lower retaining hole passing therethrough. A connection bracket, having a connecting face, an upper attachment face, a lower attachment face, an upper retaining projection and a lower retaining projection, is coupled with the pedal arm, with the upper retaining projection and the lower retaining projection respectively passing through the upper retaining hole and the lower retaining hole. Each edge of the upper attachment face and the lower attachment face is welded to the inclined portion of the pedal arm.

Pedal apparatus

A chassis frame () including connection members () each configured by a pipe that is connected to a vehicle body frame. Each connection member () is provided with an attachment part () at an end of the pipe. The attachment part () includes a flat attachment face () formed by flatly crashing an end of the pipe to form the overlapped portion where a plate of the pipe is overlapped. The flat attachment face () is provided on a center in left and right direction of the overlapped portion. A shape of the end of the pipe is a substantially gate shape in its cross section. The attachment part () further includes longitudinal ribs () bending from the flat attachment face () to both left and right sides of the overlapped portion. Each longitudinal rib () is formed with a through hole () communicating an outside and an inner side of each connection member () by expanding a folded edge of the overlapped portion, the through hole is shortened by cutting the plate of the pipe surrounding an opening of the through hole ().

Chassis frame

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Kasaoka, Japan

Junji Ishii