Multipurpose vehicle
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorYuji Ishii
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Abstract
A multipurpose vehicle includes a cargo bed including a floor panel 22 and a rear gate 24 supported to be swingable between a closed state, in which the rear gate 24 is at a vertical position with respect to the floor panel 22, and an open state, in which the rear gate 24 has swung rearward of the floor panel 22; and a holding mechanism configured to be manually operable to enter a holding state, in which the holding mechanism holds the rear gate 24 at a first angle that is a predetermined swing angle, and a holding canceled state. The cargo bed further includes a restriction mechanism 40 configured to, while the holding mechanism is in the holding canceled state, keep the rear gate 24 from swinging toward the open state by more than a second angle that is a swing angle larger than the first angle.
Claims6
A multipurpose vehicle comprising:
- a cargo bed comprising a floor panel and a rear gate that is supported in such a manner as to be swingable between a closed state, in which the rear gate is at a vertical position with respect to the floor panel, and an open state, in which the rear gate has swung rearward of the floor panel;
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- a holding mechanism configured to be manually operable to enter a holding state, in which the holding mechanism holds the rear gate at a first angle that is a predetermined swing angle, and a holding canceled state, and
- wherein the cargo bed further comprises a restriction mechanism configured to, while the holding mechanism is in the holding canceled state, keep the rear gate from swinging toward the open state by more than a second angle that is a swing angle larger than the first angle, such that at the second angle the rear gate extends rearward and downward beyond the floor panel of the cargo bed,
- wherein the restriction mechanism comprises:
- a first abutting portion provided in the rear gate;
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- a second abutting portion provided in a rear portion of the cargo bed and configured to abut against the first abutting portion when a swing angle of the rear gate is the second angle, and
- wherein the cargo bed further comprises a beam structure configured to support the cargo bed from below, and the second abutting portion is integral with the beam structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.