Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hidekazu Yasui

Takao Kawabata

Masaki Tanaka

Eiji Ihara

Shinichi Tamba

Yoshihiko Inagaki

Kenji Oda

Hideaki Shinnoki

Hirokazu Morira

A damper is in the form of a disk and used for the clutch including: a clutch housing in which a clutch plate is held; and a clutch gear that transmits rotary drive power to the clutch housing via the damper. A non-circular engagement hole is formed at a center portion of a disk of the damper such that an engagement projection of the clutch housing engages with the engagement hole. First cutout portions are formed in the damper on an outer side and an inner side in a clutch radial direction on a rear side on which rotary drive power from the clutch gear is applied. A minimal distance between each first cutout portion and the engagement hole is smaller than a distance between the engagement hole and an outer circumference of the disk.

Damper for use in clutch

A pick-up style utility vehicle has a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed. The cargo bed is expandable forward and has a screen shield for partitioning at a front end thereof. The rear seat has a seat bottom for the rear seat detachably attached to a rear seat attaching portion provided on a vehicle body. The screen shield has a seat holding portion to which the seat bottom, detached from the rear seat attaching portion, is attachable.

Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed

A pick-up style utility vehicle has a driver's seat, a seat next to the driver's seat, one or more passenger seats behind the driver's seat, and a cargo bed. Each of all the passenger seats and the seat next to the driver's seat is independently changeable between a first state in which the seat is seatable and a second state in which the seat is retracted so that an occupied space of the seat can be used as part of the cargo bed. Preferably, a screen shield partitioning the cargo bed and a riding space in front of the cargo bed is provided. The screen shield is divided into left and right screen shield members.

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Kobe, Japan

Hidekazu Yasui