Patent ID: 7216563

Claim:
An electronically controlled pedal assembly with hysteresis comprising: a housing having a front wall and an arcuate friction wall extending from an edge of said front wall wherein said friction wall has a radius of curvature centered on a pedal arm pivot point; a pedal arm having an upper arm and a lower arm and is rotatably supported at said pedal arm pivot point that is between said upper pedal arm and said lower pedal arm by a mounting means operatively connected to said housing; a hysteresis generating means pivotally attached to said upper pedal arm by a pivot pin; and a spring positioned between said housing and said hysteresis generating means, wherein said spring biases said hysteresis generating means against said housing, such that depression of said pedal arm compresses said spring while increasing a frictional hysteresis force between said arcuate friction wall and said hysteresis generating means that is translated back through said pedal arm, and release of said pedal arm reduces the frictional hysteresis force.