Patent ID: 7181991
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: B60K,B60T,B60W,G05G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An automobile accelerator and brake pedal device, the device comprising: a vertically operable brake pedal having an auxiliary pad connected thereto, a transversely operable accelerator pad connected to the auxiliary pad, and an acceleration mechanism driven by the accelerator pad through a slidably abutted roll member, wherein the accelerator pad is in the form of a chevron-shaped plate member with an intermediate portion bulging outward, the acceleration mechanism being operated by a slope surface of the intermediate portion operating on the roll member; and wherein in a first position of the brake pedal the acceleration mechanism operates in accordance with the position of the accelerator pad, and in a second depressed position of the brake pedal the roll member slides to an accelerator-inoperative position irrespective of the position of the accelerator pad.