US Patent Issued to SUZUKI MOTOR on July 28 for "Operation pedal system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,963, issued on July 28, was assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Operation pedal system" was invented by Takayo Yamamoto (Hamamatsu, Japan), Koji Kobayashi (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Hideaki Fukushima (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation pedal system that is installed in a straddle-type vehicle includes an operation pedal having an arm portion and a pedal portion, and a tread surface forming member that is attached to the pedal portion to form a first tread surface above the pedal portion that receives a stepping force when a stepping operation is performed on the operation pedal. In the operation ...