Vehicle with telescopic boarding ramp
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHirofumi Cho
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Abstract
A vehicle includes: a floor where an occupant is located during a ride in the vehicle; a high voltage unit located below the floor; a ramp configured to move between an in-use position and a storage position; and an actuator that moves the ramp between the in-use position and the storage position. The ramp includes a distal end that contacts the ground when the ramp is in the in-use position, and a base end located on the opposite side of the ramp from the distal end. When the ramp is in the storage position, the base end of the ramp is adjacent to the actuator in a horizontal direction. A tilted surface tilted upward from the base end of the ramp toward the actuator is located between the base end of the ramp and the actuator.
Claims12
A vehicle comprising:
- a floor where an occupant is located during a ride in the vehicle;
- a high voltage unit located below the floor;
- a ramp configured to move between an in-use position where the ramp extends between the floor and ground and a storage position where the ramp is stored at a position between the high voltage unit and the floor;
- and
- an actuator that moves the ramp between the in-use position and the storage position, wherein:
- the ramp includes a distal end that contacts the ground when the ramp is in the in-use position, and a base end located on an opposite side of the ramp from the distal end;
- when the ramp is in the storage position, the base end of the ramp is adjacent to the actuator in a horizontal direction;
- and
- an impact prevention surface is disposed adjacent to the actuator, the impact prevention surface having an upwardly inclined surface configured to raise the base end of the ramp and prevent the ramp from impacting the actuator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.