Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shigeto Nakamura

Yoshiya Takehara

Hirokazu Morita

Masashi Sakata

Shigeru Yamashita

Takashi Miyauchi

Yoshitaka Awazu

Austin J Stauffer

Hirohito Shimizu

Hideyuki Takahashi

Mike Boyle

Yuuki Iwamoto

Yaoki Hayashi

Masashi Kanai

Kentaro Shimomura

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 vehicle also includes 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 and a non-expanded state. The screen shield is shiftable between an expanded position corresponding to the expanded state of the cargo bed and a non-expanded position corresponding to the non-expanded state of the cargo bed. Fixing devices are provided to fix the screen shield in each of the expanded position and the non-expanded position. The screen shield fixing devices have pin insertion holes of the screen shield, pin insertion holes at the upper ends of side panels, and pins provided so as to be separable from the screen shield and a front panel.

Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed

A pick-up style utility vehicle includes a front seat, a rear seat, a cargo bed expandable in a front direction, and a screen shield arranged at a front end of the cargo bed. The cargo bed can be changed between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded in a front direction into a riding space, and a non-expanded state not occupying the riding space. The screen shield is slidably supported by a vehicle body configuring portion, for example, a guide portion provided on an expandable side panel and extending in a front and rear direction, so as to be movable in a front and rear direction between an expanded position and a non-expanded position.

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Himeji, Japan

Shigeto Nakamura