ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,748, issued on March 17, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).
"Accelerator device" was invented by Yushi Tsuzuki (Kariya-city, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accelerator device includes a pedal, an arm, a fastener member and a positioner. The pedal is configured to be depressed by a human driver. The arm is coupled to the pedal and is configured to receive a reaction force from a reaction force application device. The reaction force application device is configured to apply the reaction force to the arm against a pedal force applied from the human driver to the pedal. The fastener member is configured to fix th...