Patent ID: 7963189

Claim:
An adjustable pedal assembly for a vehicle comprising: a mounting bracket adapted for mounting to a vehicle, wherein the mounting bracket includes a mounting face and a upper arm extending radially from an upper edge of the mounting face; a guide housing having a gear sector with a plurality of gear teeth formed in the mounting bracket upper arm, and the gear sector pivots about a first pivot point that is fixed during pedal adjustment and the mounting bracket upper arm includes an arcuate slot having a radius of curvature centered at the first fixed pivot point; a swing plate slidingly supported with the arcuate slot in the mounting bracket upper arm at a second pivot point that is non-fixed during pedal adjustment and that is located radially inboard from the first fixed pivot point, wherein the swing plate includes a mounting face, and a gear sector integrally formed in an upper edge of the swing plate that operatively cooperates with the guide housing gear sector; a pedal arm operatively attached to the swing plate; a pedal pad operatively attached to a lower end of the pedal arm; and an adjustment mechanism operatively connected to the swing plate for adjusting the position of the pedal pad along a predetermined path between a nonadjusted position and a fully adjusted position, wherein the guide housing gear sector pivots about the first fixed pivot to engage the swing plate gear sector and vary the position of the second non-fixed pivot point within the arcuate slot in the mounting bracket upper arm, to constrain the travel of the pedal pad along the predetermined path.