ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,355, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Brake device for vehicle" was invented by Daisuke Hokuto (Kariya, Japan), Etsugou Yanagida (Kariya, Japan) and Kunio Nanba (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake device for a vehicle includes: a brake pedal having a pedal part and a lever part that rotates about a rotation shaft when the pedal part is operated; a housing that rotatably supports the lever part; a reaction force generator connected to the housing and the lever part to generate a reaction force against the lever part according to a stroke amount of the brake pedal; and a stopper configu...