US 12,443,215 B2
Accelerator device
Soichi Kinouchi, Kariya (JP); Yuusuke Yoshida, Kariya (JP); Tetsuji Yamanaka, Kariya (JP); Takuto Kita, Kariya (JP); and Yuta Fujinaka, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed by DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed on May 15, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/664,599.
Application 18/664,599 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/042543, filed on Nov. 16, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-188676 (JP), filed on Nov. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0295895 A1, Sep. 5, 2024
Int. Cl. G05G 1/44 (2008.04); B60K 26/02 (2006.01); G05G 5/05 (2006.01)
CPC G05G 1/44 (2013.01) [B60K 26/02 (2013.01); G05G 5/05 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An accelerator device comprising:
a pedal lever movable in response to a depression operation and biased in a return direction by a pedal biasing member;
a power transmission mechanism including an actuator lever that is contactable with the pedal lever and is biased in the return direction of the pedal lever by an actuator lever biasing member, and configured to be capable of applying a reaction force, which is a force in the return direction by a driving force of a drive source via the actuator lever, to the pedal lever; and
a control unit configured to control energization of the drive source, wherein
the control unit performs a brake control in which a return speed of the actuator lever is reduced, when the pedal lever returns to a fully closed direction; and
the control unit is configured to release the brake control when the pedal lever or the actuator lever has returned to a fully closed position while performing the brake control.