Patent ID: 8590660

Claim:
A motor vehicle pedal with a safety device, the pedal being mounted along a substantially horizontal pivoting shaft on a bracket provided with two parallel vertical bracket plates, the pivoting shaft of the pedal passing through parallel holding slots formed in said bracket plates, and a lever being provided to pivot, in case of impact, relative to the bracket and thus to allow the pivoting shaft of the pedal to move inside said holding slots, wherein said respective holding slots open on the rear edge of said bracket plates, and wherein an angle of rotation of the lever in case of impact is such that said lever can cooperate with the pivoting shaft of the pedal to release it, until said shaft is completely outside said holding slots, the pivoting shaft of the pedal thus being completely released and in turn releasing the pedal by disconnecting it from the bracket, and wherein the lever itself has two through supporting slots that are respectively arranged in two lever plates which are parallel to said bracket plates, said supporting slots initially being passed through by the pivoting shaft of the pedal, said two lever plates being respectively situated on a same side relative to each of said bracket plates, such that, in a first part of the lever's rotation in case of impact, said holding slots are released from the pivoting shaft of the pedal and thereby release said pivoting shaft of the pedal, both in its own axial direction and in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.