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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2012
Noboru Fujiwara, Toyota, JP;
Hirofumi Otsuka, Kitasaku-gun, JP;
Noboru Fujiwara, Toyota, JP;
Hirofumi Otsuka, Kitasaku-gun, JP;
TOYODA IRON WORKS CO., LTD., Toyota, JP;
MINEBEA CO., LTD., Kitasaku-gun, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A pedal operation amount detection apparatus for an operation pedal apparatus that includes a transmitting member including a pedal arm of an operation pedal that is disposed to be pivotable about a support axis and subjected to a depressing operation, and an output member to which a depressing operation force is transmitted from the transmitting member and to which a reaction force corresponding to the depressing operation force is applied, the pedal operation amount detection apparatus includes a sensor member disposed on a load transmission path of the transmitting member and the reaction force and the pedal operation amount detection apparatus electrically detects deformation of the sensor member. The sensor member is an elongate member that is torsionally and elastically deformable about a torsion center line in a longitudinal direction and is disposed at a position offset from the transmitting member in a direction parallel to the support axis.