Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Daisuke Takagi

Takao Kawabata

Hirokazu Morita

Masafumi Inoue

Hideyuki Kato

Satoshi Takaya

Masashi Sakata

Shigeru Yamashita

Masahiro Kawahara

Naohisa Masuda

Satoshi Morotomi

Manabu Kokawa

Yoshitaka Nishikawa

Shinichi Tanba

Masahiro Koga

Dave Reinke

A pick-up style utility vehicle with an expandable cargo bed, including a front seat, a rear seat, a stationary bottom plate serving as a bottom face of the cargo bed, an expansion bottom plate for expanding the bottom face of the cargo bed, and a shared linkage mechanism for holding the rear seat at a use position where the rear seat is positioned on the upper side of the stationary bottom plate and a shunting position where the rear seat is shunted into a rear leg room provided in front of and below the stationary bottom plate. The shared linkage mechanism also holds the expansion bottom plate at a storage position where the expansion bottom plate is above the stationary bottom plate and an expansion position where the expansion bottom plate is positioned over the leg room.

Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed

A pick-up style utility vehicle has a front seat and a rear seat surrounded by a cabin frame, and a cargo bed in this order from the vehicle front, a screen shield partitioning the cargo bed and a riding space in front of the cargo bed. The cargo bed is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded into the riding space of the rear seat and a non-expanded state not occupying the riding space of the rear seat. The screen shield is supported by the upper portion of the cabin frame and is changeable between an expanded position in which the cargo bed and the riding space in front of the cargo bed are partitioned and a non-expanded position in which the cargo bed and the riding space in front of the cargo bed are partitioned without the necessity of detaching the screen shield from the cabin frame.

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Kakogawa, Japan

Daisuke Takagi