Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Itsuo Takegami

Teruaki Yamamoto

Kazuhiro Maeda

Kazumasa Hisada

Fumio Mizuta

Takuma Nozaki

Kenta Nakamura

Takashi Hisamura

Yoshiyuki Kuroyanagi

Kazuki Ishibashi

Yoshinori Tsumiyama

Takeshi Tanaka

Naoki Hashimoto

Keiji Takahashi

Yoshiharu Matsuda

Sosuke Kinouchi

Toru Minami

Masashi Sakata

Kazuma Waida

Shigeru Yamashita

Kiyohisa Yoshikawa

Takafumi Hisamori

Satoshi Masuda

Takafumi Kumada

Sunao Kaihatsu

Shusuke Minami

Masashi Nishiike

Tooru Ogino

Dustin Meyer

Eizou Sakai

Kazuki Takeuchi

Takashi Arii

A utility vehicle includes a passenger grip for a crew seated on a passenger seat. The passenger grip includes a handle grip having an arm part extending from a dashboard toward the passenger seat and a grip part provided at the arm part and gripped by the crew seated on the passenger seat, a holder outserted to the arm part of the handle grip and holding the arm part movably forward and backward in an extending direct on of the arm part, and a single-action look mechanism provided at the holder and fixing the handle grip to the holder. The single-action lock mechanism includes a lock pin having a distal end penetrating a through hole provided at the holder and engaged with at least one engagement hole provided at the arm part, a spring biasing the lock pin toward the arm part, a housing fixed to the holder and accommodating the lock pin and the spring, and a knob disposed outside the housing and connected to the lock pin.

Utility vehicle

A utility vehicle includes a seat, and a back panel with at least a part of the back panel located behind the seat. The back panel has a box portion that has an opening facing a cabin, and a lid covers the opening. An electrical component is housed in the box portion.

A utility vehicle includes: a seat; a back panel having at least a part disposed behind the seat; and a battery disposed behind the back panel. The battery is disposed above a seating surface of the seat.

A utility vehicle includes a passenger grip including a handle grip having an arm part extending from a dashboard toward the passenger seat, and a grip part at the arm part and gripped by the crew seated on the passenger seat, a holder outserted to the arm part of the handle grip and holding the arm part movably forward and backward in an extending direction of the arm part, and a single-action lock mechanism at the holder and fixing the handle grip to the holder. The single-action lock mechanism includes a lock pin having a distal end penetrating a through hole at the holder and engaged with an engagement hole at the arm part, a spring biasing the lock pin toward the arm part, a housing fixed to the holder and accommodating the lock pin and the spring, and a knob outside the housing and connected to the lock pin.

A panel locking device for a vehicle cargo bed is configured to retain an openable gate-shaped panel so as to be upstanding at a closed position. The panel locking device includes a locking lever rotatably supported by a lever support portion provided at a first of the openable gate-shaped panel and a cargo bed panel adjacent to the openable gate-shaped panel, a movable hook rotatably coupled to a halfway portion of the locking lever, a first fixed hook provided to a second one of the openable gate-shaped panel and the cargo bed panel and configured to engage with the movable hook when the openable gate-shaped panel is located at the closed position, and a second fixed hook provided to the first one of the panels and configured to engage with the movable hook.

Panel locking device for vehicle cargo bed

A side-by-side vehicle includes a vehicle body frame; a driving power unit supported by the vehicle body frame; and a cargo carrier which is disposed above the driving power unit and has a loading space. The cargo carrier includes a bottom wall defining a bottom surface of the loading space. The bottom wall includes a center bottom wall portion, a rear bottom wall portion provided rearward of the center bottom wall portion and configured to be higher than the center bottom wall portion, and a protruding wall portion protruding upward from a rear end of the center bottom wall portion and connected to a front end of the rear bottom wall portion. The protruding wall portion is provided with a drain hole through which a space formed above the center bottom wall portion is in communication with a space formed under the rear bottom wall portion.

Side-by-side vehicle

A container holder attached to a utility vehicle and including a support member; an upper holding member attached to the support member and holding a side surface of a container; and a lower holding member attached to the support member and supporting a lower surface of a container; wherein the upper holding member is rotatable with respect to the support member between a first holding position of holding a container and a first accommodated position of holding no container, the lower holding member is rotatable with respect to the support member between a second holding position of holding a container and a second accommodated position of holding no container, the upper holding member located at the first accommodated position holds the lower holding member located at the second accommodated position, and the support member includes a fixing portion configured to fix the upper holding member at the first accommodated position.

Container holder attached to utility vehicle

A cargo carrier having a depressed loading space includes a base carrier member, and a pair of right and left side carrier members disposed on right and left sides, respectively, of the base carrier member, and fastened to the pair of right and left rear frame members, respectively, from above. The base carrier member includes a bottom wall portion forming a bottom surface of the loading space, a front wall portion protruding upward from a front end of the bottom wall portion, and a pair of right and left side wall portions protruding upward from a right end and a left end, respectively, of the bottom wall portion. The pair of right and left side wall portions of the base carrier member are removably mountable on the pair of right and left side carrier members, respectively.

A grip mounting structure for a utility vehicle includes an R.O.P.S. surrounding a riding space provided with a seat, a front-seat central grip provided to the R.O.P.S. and having a holding portion configured to be held by a crew member sitting on the seat, and an additional grip detachably mounted to at least one of the R.O.P.S. and the front-seat central grip and having a holding portion configured to be held by the crew member. The holding portion of the additional grip has a projection amount to the riding space that is larger than a projection amount of the holding portion of the front-seat central grip to the riding space.

Grip mounting structure for utility vehicle, utility vehicle with the same, and grip

A utility vehicle according to the invention includes a body frame supporting a cabin disposed between a pair of left and right front wheels and a pair of left and right rear wheels, a cabin front wall extending substantially throughout a vehicle width at a front end of the cabin, and an inner fender covering a lower surface of a front chamber located ahead of the cabin and above the front wheels and extending substantially throughout the vehicle width. The cabin front wall and the inner fender are connected to each other substantially throughout the vehicle width and form a front wheel space including wheel housings of the front wheels and a space between the front wheels.

A utility vehicle includes: a chassis (); a seat () arranged on the chassis; a cargo bed () arranged behind the seat and supported in a freely rotatable manner about a pivot () of the chassis so as to be changeable between a dumping position in which a front portion of the cargo bed is raised and a normal position in which the front portion of the cargo bed is not raised; a holding part () for biasing the cargo bed toward the dumping position so as to hold the cargo bed; and a support rod () provided separately from the holding part and supporting the cargo bed at the dumping position.

A utility vehicle includes a front seat, a rear seat at a rear side of the front seat, and a cargo bed at a rear side of the rear seat, and a screen for partitioning the cargo bed and a riding space at a front side of the cargo bed. The cargo bed includes left and right fixed side walls, a front wall movable into the riding space, and left and right expansion side walls expandable into the riding space. The cargo bed is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded forward into the riding space and a non-expanded state in which the cargo bed is not expanded into the riding space. The screen is attached to the front wall, and each expansion side wall is foldably attached to the front wall and a corresponding one of the fixed side walls.

Latch for vehicles

A utility vehicle is equipped with a passenger space, a cargo bed disposed behind the passenger space, and a screen disposed between the passenger space and the cargo bed. The screen is formed into a lattice shape using an outer frame made of a square pipe, a plurality of vertical cross-piece members made of square pipes, and a plurality of horizontal cross-piece members made of square pipes.

A utility vehicle equipped with a main frame for forming a framework of a chassis; a ROPS (Roll-Over Protective Structure) provided at an intermediate portion of the main frame in a front-rear direction of a body of the utility vehicle so as to enclose a cabin; a seat disposed inside the ROPS; an engine disposed under the seat; and a battery disposed under the seat and on an outside of the engine in a width direction of the utility vehicle.

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Kobe, Japan

Itsuo Takegami