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US 12,752,712 B2Granted
Vehicle step device
AssigneeAisin Corporation
InventorsMasashi Miwa, Takanori Yasutake
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Abstract
A vehicle step device includes: a base attached to a vehicle body; an arm attached to the base; a step assembled with the arm; and a protection member that is arranged on a width-direction inner side of a position of the step in a retracted state and is provided in such a way as to face at least a part of the base, the arm, and the step.
Claims4
A vehicle step device to be provided at a vehicle body, the vehicle step device comprising:
- a base attached to the vehicle body;
- an arm attached to the base;
- and
- a step attached to the arm, wherein
- the arm includes a base portion and an arm portion extending from the base portion,
- the base includes a fastened portion being fastened to the vehicle body, a contact portion coming into contact against a lower surface of the vehicle body, and a shaft support portion supporting a shaft member of the arm,
- the contact portion is located on the shaft support portion, or is located closer to a center of the vehicle body in a direction along a width direction of the vehicle body than the shaft support portion, and
- in an attached state where the vehicle step device is attached to the vehicle body, when the arm is arranged at a deployed position, the contact portion is provided at an extension association part where the base overlaps with an imaginary extension portion of a direction opposite to an extending direction of the arm portion with respect to the base portion, and the contact portion is arranged closer to the center of the vehicle body in the direction along the width direction of the vehicle body than the fastened portion, and is provided at least on a front side or on a rear side of the base.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.