Patent ID: 8327736

Claim:
An accelerator pedal device with variable pedal effort, comprising: an elastic member that applies a restoring force in a return direction to an accelerator pedal rotatably coupled to a vehicle body; a plurality of compression springs coupled to the vehicle body and providing a pedal effort in an operation direction of the accelerator pedal; and a plurality of locking pins mounted to the vehicle body and being sequentially arranged in a predetermined distance along a longitudinal direction of a rotary shaft of an actuator and fixed at predetermined angle in the circumferential direction on the rotary shaft, so as to be corresponded to the compression springs respectively; wherein end portions of the each locking pin are integrally connected to a circumference of the rotary shaft of the actuator mounted to the vehicle body and the opposite end portions thereof are sequentially inserted under the each compression spring according to a rotation of the rotary shaft so as to prevent a compression spring engaged with one of the locking pins from increasing the pedal effort.