Vehicles including truck bed storage systems with rotating rack assemblies
AssigneesToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorJosh D. Fraley
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a truck bed that includes a bed deck and a storage system that includes a rack assembly including a housing having a fixed size that occupies at least 10 percent of a total area of the bed deck in a stowed position. The rack assembly includes a pivot mechanism that is mounted to a rear pillar of the vehicle and provides a fixed pivot location. The rack assembly is configured to pivot about the pivot location from the stowed position entirely within the truck bed overhanging the bed deck to an extended position at least partially out of the truck bed and overhanging a tailgate of the truck bed.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- a truck bed comprising a bed deck;
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- a storage system comprising a rack assembly comprising a housing, the rack assembly comprising a pivot mechanism that is mounted to a rear pillar of the vehicle and provides a fixed pivot location, wherein the rack assembly is configured to pivot about the pivot location from a stowed position entirely within the truck bed overhanging the bed deck to an extended position at least partially out of the truck bed and overhanging a tailgate of the truck bed.
A storage system comprising:
- a rack assembly comprising a housing, the rack assembly comprising a pivot mechanism that is configured to mount to a rear pillar of the vehicle and provide a fixed pivot location, wherein the rack assembly is configured to pivot about the pivot location from a stowed position entirely within a truck bed overhanging the bed deck to an extended position at least partially out of the truck bed and overhanging a tailgate of the truck bed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.