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US 8,136,859 B2Granted
Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHirokazu Morita, Hiroyuki Iwai, Masaki Tanaka, Wayne Schafer
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Abstract
A pick-up style utility vehicle having a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed in this order from the front of the vehicle. The cargo bed is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded forward into a rear riding space in front of the cargo bed and a non-expanded state not occupying the rear riding space. The utility vehicle has load storing devices in the leg space of the rear seat which serves as a load storing space in the expanded state.
Claims16
A pick-up style utility vehicle comprising:
- a front seat;
- a rear seat;
- and
- a cargo bed, wherein:
- the front seat, the rear seat, and the cargo bed are located in this order from a front of the vehicle;
- the cargo bed is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded forward into a rear riding space in front of the cargo bed and a non-expanded state not occupying the rear riding space;
- and
- the front seat, rear seat and cargo bed define a leg space of the rear seat in the non-expanded state and a load storing space in the expanded state;
- the utility vehicle further includes a partitioning member that is changeable between a state in which only the leg space of the rear seat is partitioned from a left or right side outward of a vehicle body in the expanded state and a state in which the leg space of the rear seat is opened to the left or right side outward of the vehicle body in the non-expanded state;
- and
- the rear seat is housed in a space different from the leg space in the expanded state.
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A pick-up style utility vehicle comprising:
- a front seat;
- a rear seat;
- and
- a cargo bed;
- wherein:
- the front seat, the rear seat and the cargo bed are positioned in this order from a front of the vehicle,
- the cargo bed is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded forward into a rear riding space in front of the cargo bed and a non-expanded state not occupying the rear riding space,
- the utility vehicle has load storing means forming a leg space of the rear seat in the non-expanded state, and the rear seat is housed in a space different from the leg space in the expanded state,
- the load storing means includes a partitioning member that is changeable between a state in which the leg space of the rear seat is partitioned from a left or right side outward of a vehicle body in the expanded state and a state in which the leg space of the rear seat is opened to the left or right side outward of the vehicle body in the non-expanded state, and
- the partitioning member is disposed below a seating surface of the rear seat in the non-expanded state, and in a state in which the leg space of the rear seat is partitioned from a left or right side outward of a vehicle body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.