Patent ID: 7212914

Claim:
Floor pedal device for heavy motor vehicles, comprising in combination: (a) a base plate element; (b) a pedal element, movably connected to the base plate element by means of a connector device such that the pedal element may be moved between an idle position and a full-throttle position of an internal combustion engine through a pedal angle (α) of between 0° and 30°; (c) a signal generator that is at least partially connected with the connector device and that generates a signal corresponding to pedal movement, said signal generator including a rotation angle sensor that includes at least one of (1) an ASIC circuit with a Hall device and a buffer storage circuit implemented as an E 2 PROM and (2) a buffer storage unit; (d) a microprocessor unit, connected to the ASIC circuit; and (e) an output switching device connected to the microprocessor unit for producing at least one pulse-width-modulated output signal (PW 1 , PW 2 ) with selectable frequencies (F 1 , F 2 , F 3 , F 4 ).