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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2017
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Erin Elizabeth Sauter, Oak Park, MI (US);
Ria Sinha McClellan, Dearborn, MI (US);
Michael William Danyo, Trenton, MI (US);
Joshua Robert Hemphill, White Lake, MI (US);
Mark Sauter, West Chester, OH (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A truck box assembly including a sidewall, a pair of doors, and a support assembly is provided. The sidewall may define an opening to provide clearance for a wheel house. Each of the pair of doors extends from one side of the opening. The support assembly may be mounted to a truck box and support the sidewall as the sidewall moves between retracted and expanded positions. Each of the doors may be moveable between an open position and a closed position filling the opening in the expanded position. The support assembly may include a mount post secured to the truck box at a standard interface plate (SIP) bracket and a horizontal member extending from the mount post and secured to the truck box at a stake pocket hole.