Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoichi Jinja

Tomohiro Kanazawa

Daisuke Kawai

Tyler Furman

Kiyoaki Maeda

Hirohide Matsushima

Yoshihiro Masuda

Masashi Sakata

Yasushi Ishibashi

Takao Hamano

Hideyuki Takahashi

Ryo Suzuki

Kazuhiro Morita

Trey Govier

A pick-up style utility vehicle having a front seat and a rear seat. The pick-up style utility vehicle includes a cargo bed movement mechanism for supporting a cargo bed movably within a predetermined movement range in a back and forth direction. Also, a seat movement mechanism is provided for supporting the rear seat movably between a use position set to be within the movement range and a shunting position set to be out of or beyond the movement range.

Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed

A method of reducing at least one of a contact speed and a transmitting torque between power transmission members, when a slack between the power transmission members in a power transmission path from a drive source to a wheel is apparently gone upon an acceleration or deceleration of the drive source or the wheel. The method includes the steps of detecting an information relating to a rotational speed of an input shaft of a controlled section in the power transmission path, the controlled section being defined as to be reduced in the at least one of the contact speed and the transmitting torque, calculating a relative rotational position between the input shaft and an output shaft of the controlled section based on the detected information relating to the rotational speed of the input shaft, and accelerating or decelerating at least one of the input shaft and the output shaft so as to reduce the at least one of the contact speed and the transmitting torque between the power transmission members based on the calculated relative rotational position.

Method and apparatus of controlling acceleration/deceleration of a vehicle

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Osaka, Japan

Yoichi Jinja