US Patent Issued to DENSO on Sept. 29 for "Pedal device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,897, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a pedal device, a first elastic member is deformed in accordance with a sliding operation of a first guide of a first holder in a vehicle longitudinal direction with a second guide of a second holder by a force from a pedal when the pedal rotates. Further, due to the force from the pedal when the pedal rotates, a second elastic member is deformed in accordance with a sliding operation of the second guide in the vehicle...