| 摘要 |
An accelerator pedal assembly for use in a motor vehicle includes an elongate pivotal lever which is pivotally supported at its generally middle portion by a pivot shaft. The lever has thus upper and lower portions which are pivotally mounted to the lower portion of the lever. The upper end of the lever has a circular recess to which an accelerator cable is connected. The lever is equipped at the upper portion with a damping mass (or weight) for suppressing the undesired resonant vibration of the lever. The damping mass is so positioned that a center of gravity "G" of the damping mass is placed on an imaginary straight line "L" which passes through both given points "P" and "Q", the point "P" being the center of the pivoted middle portion of the lever and the point "Q" being the center of the circular recess of the lever. Thus, when the pedal is depressed, an inertial force of the damping mass does not produce a torsional stress in the lever because of no moment produced around the line "L".
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