This Project was an assignment from my Project Manager (Ergonomics/Driver systems) in a club I have taken immense interest in, Northeastern Electric Racing. This part aimed to mount the electric race car's accelerator pedal to the moveable pedal box plate. Other design constraints, including from and rear stops, material/fabrication and mounting method will be delved into further down this page.
Note: The above pictured assembly was NOT created by myself. I participated in research and design team meetings about most of the parts in this assembly, and did CAD for multiple parts as well. The mount for the rightmost shaft is the highlight/focus of this project posting.
Above you can see an enlarged render of this part in the pedal box assembly and you can see it standing alone (below). This was a cool experience for me for a few reasons. This was mostly solo (a few check in's with Project Manager and Mechanical Engineering Design Head to make sure I was doing well), and was during my summer break from university. This was voluntary, and showed me that each step of the engineering design process must be considered while designing a part which needs to one day be fabricated (cost, ease of machining, etc.)
Below you observe the initial design process of the part my Project Manager assigned to me. I sometimes use the old school style of sketching, just to get a baseline understanding of what is being asked of me, its fast and can be proposed to the team without sinking in too much time and energy.
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The render below was a pseudo-proof-of-concept, mathematically constrained, so this would work as the final part, but the design as not refined. From here, I removed material, added threaded holes accordingly, and created all other necessary hardware (shoulder-bolts, rubber padding, screws, etc.)
