Foot-operated parking brake

US4621538A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Ernst Senft · Asperg, DE
• Hans Hirth · Würzburg, DE
• Herbert Klemmer · Jeffery Road, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 5, 1985
• Grant date: Nov 11, 1986
• Expiry date: Apr 5, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/20726
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The application relates to a lockable and releasable pedal mounting arrangement for a foot-operated parking brake of a motor vehicle, which mounting is fastened to a cowl column in the driver's foot space in the junction region of a dashboard cowl and pivotable out of the foot space about a pedal pivot under the effect of a rearward deformation of the cowl as the result of an accident so that there is little adverse effect on the inner safety of the vehicle.