Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Dave Reinke

Takao Kawabata

Masafumi Inoue

Satoshi Takaya

Yoshitaka Nishikawa

Shinichi Tanba

Daisuke Takagi

Masahiro Koga

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

Growing community of inventors

Lincoln, NE, United States of America

Dave Reinke