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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2012
Shigeru Yamazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Meguru Kashiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Kumamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsuyoshi Oosawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiromutsu Touhachi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeru Yamazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Meguru Kashiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Masato Kumamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Tsuyoshi Oosawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiromutsu Touhachi, Kanagawa, JP;
Mikuni Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An accelerator pedal apparatus including an actuator pedal, a hysteresis generating mechanism which provides a hysteresis pedaling force characteristic having larger pedaling force in a depression direction than that in a return direction, and a reaction force adding control mechanism which adds operational reaction force to operation of the accelerator pedal based on an adjustment force generation command from an upper unit, while the operational reaction force added by the reaction force adding control mechanism is not larger than a hysteresis amount generated by the hysteresis generating mechanism.