Patent ID: 7434648

Claim:
A vehicle pedal assembly support structure for supporting a pedal assembly which includes a pedal lever placed rearward of a dash panel of a vehicle, a pivot shaft provided at the upper end of the pedal lever to extend in the width direction of the vehicle and a pedal provided at the lower end of the pedal lever, the pedal lever being capable of angular movement about the axis of the pivot shaft, said pedal assembly support structure comprising: a bracket which is fixed at the front end thereof to the dash panel and extends rearward from the dash panel and to which the pivot shaft for the pedal lever is mounted at a position toward the rear end of the bracket; a guide member placed at the rear of the bracket and fixed at the rear end thereof to a vehicle body member other than the dash panel; a fixing mechanism formed across a rear end portion of the bracket and a front end portion of the guide member to normally fix the rear end portion of the bracket to the front end portion of the guide member but disengage the bracket from the guide member in a vehicle collision; and a relative shift restricting member for restraining the rear end portion of the bracket from relatively shifting in directions other than the rearward direction of the vehicle to the front end portion of the guide member, wherein the guide member has a guide surface that downwardly guides the bracket moving backward in the vehicle collision to change the posture of the bracket and thereby relatively move the pedal forward, and the relative shift restricting member comprises a pair of restriction tabs having hooked shapes which circumferentially partly sunound the extending ends of the pivot shaft and the rear sides of which are open.