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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2020
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Iwasaki, Wako, JP;
Ayumu Yamaguchi, Wako, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An accelerator pedal device for use in a vehicle has: a housing fixed to a vehicle body; an accelerator arm that has a drum at one end and a pedal at the other end; a friction pad that has a pad shaft; and a spring that is interposed between the accelerator arm and the friction pad. The drum has an arm pivoting shaft that pivotally supports the accelerator arm and a recess that is recessed from a periphery of the drum toward the arm pivoting shaft, the friction pad has a friction part that is pressed against the recess by a spring force of the spring, the friction part has a side surface member having a side surface in an arched cross section to face the recess, and the side surface member has a contact part that is brought into point-contact with the recess of the drum.