Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinichi Tanba

Takao Kawabata

Hitomi Miyake

Masafumi Inoue

Satoshi Takaya

Ichiro Uemura

Tetsuhiro Yamakawa

Yoshitaka Nishikawa

Daisuke Takagi

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 combustion engine according to the present invention has a unitary fan-pulley assembly (F), in which a cooling fan () and a starter pulley () are formed integrally with each other. The cooling fan () is fixed to a crankshaft (). The pulley () receives a starting force when engaged with engagement pawlsintegral with a recoil starter (). A bracket () is fixedly mounted on the crankshaft () together with the unitary fan-pulley assembly (F) for urging engagement grooves (), each defined between neighboring engagement projections () of the starter pulley (), in an axial direction of the unitary fan-pulley assembly (F).

Combustion engine having unitary structure of cooling fan and starter pulley

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Kobe, Japan

Shinichi Tanba