US 7,540,826 B2
Drive assistant device for automobile
Katsuyoshi Ochiai, Katsushika-ku (Japan)
Assigned to I.R. Care Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan); and Konno Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Appl. No. 11/569,118
PCT Filed Dec. 05, 2005, PCT No. PCT/JP2005/022281
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Nov. 14, 2006,
PCT Pub. No. WO2007/017961, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 15, 2007.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-259862 (JP), filed on Aug. 11, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2008/0269015 A1, Oct. 30, 2008
Int. Cl. F02D 9/10 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 477—211  [477/214; 477/216] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A drive assistant device for an automobile comprising a brake-pedal operating rod mechanism and an accelerator-pedal operating link mechanism,
said brake-pedal operating rod mechanism having one end with a rod operation tool and the other end with brake rods pivotally connected for lateral pivotal movement to a frame which in turn is connected to a brake-pedal operation tool,
said accelerator-pedal operating link mechanism comprising
accelerator-pedal operating means longitudinally movably received in the brake rod of said brake-pedal operating rod mechanism,
an accelerator-pedal operating lever pivoted to said accelerator-pedal operating means and extending toward an accelerator pedal,
an accelerator-pedal operating link connected to said accelerator-pedal operating lever on a side away from said accelerator-pedal operating means connected thereto and having a tip end with an accelerator-pedal operation tool and
a support link pivoted to said frame and to a laterally intermediate portion of said accelerator-pedal operating lever such that the support link may be pivotally moved in a direction in parallel with the pivotal moving direction of said brake rod,
whereby the accelerator pedal is actuated via the accelerator-pedal operating lever, operating link and operation tool when said accelerator-pedal operating means is moved toward the rod operation tool, a brake pedal being actuated via said frame and said brake-pedal operation tool when the brake-pedal operating rod mechanism is pushed forward.