To prevent breakdown of an energizing member due to application of unnecessary load to the energizing member in directions except the extending/shrinking direction thereof.
This accelerator is provided with a housing 3 provided with a bearing part 17, an accelerator pedal 2 having an operating part 23, a shaft part 20 and an arm 21 in this order from one end side to the other end side and supported by the housing freely to rotate in the normal direction and the reverse direction by receiving the shaft part with the bearing part, and the energizing member locked between the inner surface of the housing and a lock part of the accelerator pedal to apply the energizing force in the reverse direction to the lock part. The accelerator, furthermore, has semi-spherical projecting parts 61 and 62 provided with a curved surface to be engaged freely to be slid over the whole edge part in both ends of the energizing member and fixed to the lock part and the inner surface of the housing.
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MAKINO MASAHIRO
KAJITA YUKINOBU
Jun Tsuruta
Tetsuro Shimada
Hirose Shigeki