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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tetsuo Hiura, Hiroshima, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 7/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 7/06 ;
Abstract
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.