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US 12,179,701 B2Granted
Vehicle slope apparatus
AssigneeAisin Corporation
InventorsIsao Honda, Tomoyuki Kato, Yuta Murakami, Masaki Sugimoto, Takanori Sato
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Abstract
A vehicle slope apparatus includes a slope plate configured to be moved in a deployment direction so as to be deployed at a lower end of a door opening portion and configured to be moved in a housing direction so as to be housed in a housing portion provided in a vehicle body, and a position holding device configured to hold a position of the slope plate against an external force.
Claims11
A vehicle slope apparatus comprising:
- a slope plate configured to be moved in a deployment direction so as to be deployed at a lower end of a door opening portion and configured to be moved in a housing direction so as to be housed in a housing portion provided in a vehicle body;
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- a position holding device configured to hold a position of the slope plate against an external force, wherein
- the position holding device includes a check mechanism configured to hold the slope plate at a position where the slope plate is housed in the housing portion, based on an engagement force between a slope side check provided on the slope plate and a vehicle body side check provided on the vehicle body,
- the vehicle body side check includes:
- a pair of lever members disposed adjacently and rotatably to extend in the deployment and housing directions of the slope plate, and
- an urging member configured to urge the lever members to rotate the lever members in a direction where engagement portions thereof are close to each other, and the slope side check includes:
- an engagement protrusion configured to be inserted between the two engagement portions based on movement of the slope plate toward the housing direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.