US Patent Issued to DENSO on June 2 for "Pedal device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,507, issued on June 2, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Pedal device" was invented by Makoto Shigematsu (Kariya-city, Japan) and Yuki Matsunaga (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedal device includes: a pedal rotating about a rotation shaft when being stepped by an operator; an elastic member of a reaction force generating mechanism generating a reaction force against a pedaling force of the operator by deformation due to a force from the pedal when the pedal rotates; a housing rotatably supporting the pedal and defining a housing space that houses the elastic member; and a support member supportin...