Flexible and compact:
Siemens VDO presents its new modular pedal unit
Regensburg, April 23, 2007
Electronically controlled engines are becoming more and more prevalent in the commercial vehicles segment. Siemens VDO is reacting to this development, offering manufacturers of commercial vehicles and construction and working machinery a full range of accelerator pedals that no longer transmit the pedal position mechanically, but electronically.
The new suspended pedal is supplied as a complete, compact unit ready for installation. It consists of a base module, an operating lever, and a pedal plate, as well as the appropriate return springs. The sensor is integrated into the unit. The new pedal is characterized by a high degree of flexibility and can be adapted to different engine management interfaces if necessary. The non-contact Hall sensor integrated into the pedal unit processes the signals generated electronically by the movement of the pedal in such a way that they can be used by the engine management systems of many different manufacturers. Both analog and digital sensors are currently available for connection to various engine interfaces.
The new unit is constructed to meet the rugged conditions of use in commercial vehicles and construction and work machinery. The pedal unit has been designed for a long lifetime even under the hardest working conditions.
Also in terms of installation, there are many options for manufacturers when it comes to optimum workstation design, because the new pedal unit is available in three different varieties, with different operating levers.
The new unit rounds off Siemens VDO’s range of electronic accelerator pedals, offering an appropriate solution for every possible application, for both suspended and floor-mounted pedals and external accelerator pedal sensors.
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The Group Siemens VDO Automotive, based in Regensburg, Germany and owned by Siemens AG, is one of the leading automotive suppliers of electronics and mechatronics worldwide and enables, with its products, individual mobility and efficient goods transportation via roads. A development partner to the automotive industry, the Group produces automotive electronics and mechatronics focusing on lower emissions, greater safety and driving convenience, and better provision of information to the driver as well as better networking between the driver and the outside world. In the 2006 fiscal year, which ended on September 30, 2006, Siemens VDO posted a sales volume of over 10 billion euros and achieved a result of 669 million euros calculated on the basis of the U.S. GAAP.
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