Safety device for supporting pedals

US6786109B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Martin Mueller · Heubach, DE
• Dieter Papenhagen · Waiblingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 10, 2001
• Grant date: Sep 7, 2004
• Expiry date: May 10, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/20888
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A safety device is here described for supporting pedals in motor vehicles, especially passenger cars, with a bracket support arranged in the area of a wall area of a splash wall or bulkhead that is noticeably deformed into a passenger compartment in the event of a vehicle head-on collision, in which bracket support a pedal pivot shaft of at least one swivelling pedal, especially a brake pedal, acting on a push rod is mounted. At the same time the pedal pivot shaft is mounted in the bracket support in a guide extending at least basically horizontally, the guide has limits in each horizontal direction. In addition the pedal pivot shaft in normal operation is fixed in a forward position of the guide, viewed in the forward direction of travel, and the fixing is neutralized in the event of a head-on collision.