Kuroishi Iron Works Co., Ltd.

Mazda Motor Corporation

Auto Technica Corporation

Tetsuo Hiura

Keisuke Miyoshi

Masayuki Tokumo

Katsuhiko Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Utsumi

Masanori Nakayama

Kazunori Tomonou

Hirofumi Ishida

Takeshi Murayama

Fumihiko Nomura

Disclosed is a support structure for a vehicle control pedal, which comprises a pedal bracket () supporting the control pedal () through a first support shaft (S) inserted through a support hole (), a swingable lever () adapted to, during a vehicle collision, come into interference with a vehicle body member () so as to be swingingly moved about a second support shaft (S) while pushing the first support shaft (S) downwardly to allow the first support shaft (S) to drop out of the support hole (), and a drop-out restriction member () engaged by a pin member () and coupled to the swingable lever () in a relatively unswingable manner, so as to restrict the drop-out of the first support shaft (S). The support structure is designed such that, according to the swing movement of the swingable lever () during the vehicle collision, the restriction on drop-out of the first support shaft (S) by the drop-out restriction member () is removed to allow the first support shaft (S) to drop out of the support hole (). The support structure of the present invention can prevent impact energy during a vehicle collision from being input to a leg of a driver through the control pedal while reliably restricting accidental drop-out of the control pedal in a normal condition.

Support structure for control pedal of vehicle

A support structure for a pedal of a vehicle pivotablly supports a pedal assembly () to a pedal bracket () mounted on a vehicle dash panel (). The support structure for a pedal of a vehicle includes a reinforce member () for the vehicle body; an upper pedal member (); a lower pedal member () having a pedal () at its lower end; an abutting member () not coming into contact with the reinforce member when the vehicle is in a normal operation, while it abuts against the reinforce member at its abutting portion () by moving in the rearward direction of the vehicle body when the vehicle crashes; and a connecting mechanism () for connecting the abutting member to the lower pedal member in such a manner that relative movement with respect to each other is prevented when the vehicle is in a normal operation, while the connecting mechanism forcibly displaces the lower portion () of the lower pedal member, which is the part locating below the pivot shaft of the lower pedal member, in a forward direction with respect to the upper pedal member when the vehicle crashes.

Support structure for pedal of vehicle

A parking brake operating device for vehicle, wherein a vehicle is held by a specified braking force by manually rotating a brake lever ( ), a held state is released by rotatingly operating the brake lever ( ) upward by a specified amount from the held state, and the braking force can be changed to an increasing side and held by further raising the brake lever upward from the held state beyond the specified amount, whereby a release operation can be performed without using a push button or a push rod.

Parking brake operating device for vehicle

A device provided with a pedal arm ( ) having pawl teeth ( ), a latch pawl member ( ) having a latch pawl ( ) engageable with the pawl teeth ( ) for maintaining and releasing a stepped-on position of the pedal arm ( ), and a position changing member ( ) for allowing the latch pawl member ( ) to maintain the position of the pedal arm ( ) when the pedal arm is further stepped on from a maintained position. The above constitution realizes a function of setting a braking force by a stepping operation, a function of releasing a braking force by a stepping operation and a function of increasing a braking force by an additional stepping operation.

Parking brake device for vehicle

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Hiroshima, Japan

Tetsuo Hiura