Abstract: The invention concerns a method for making a material-shaping tool, in particular by hot pressing or injection moulding. The tool has an integral assembly of sections mutually adjacent along junction surfaces. Grooves provided in the junction surfaces and passages provided through the sections define a circuit for circulating a heating medium. Each section can be designed and produced, for example, by molding or machining in a block of heat-conducting material, so as to ensure an optimal configuration of the heating medium circuit.

Abstract: A device allowing a seated user to use his or her foot to control a member for actuating a system such as a motor vehicle brake boosting system, including a pedal articulated about an axis to a support that can be adjusted in terms of translation in the direction away from or closer to the user's seat. The pedal cooperates, via a sliding sleeve, with a rod which is itself articulated via levers to a carrying structure. The rod and the levers between them, and together with the pedal, constitute deformable parallelograms whatever the adjustment adopted for the axis of articulation of the pedal to its support, with respect to the carrying structure. The pivoting movement of the pedal is transmitted via one of the levers to a connecting rod which provides a link with the actuating member. Application particularly to adjusting the position of the pedal box of a motor vehicle, in terms of its distance from the driver's seat.