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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2020
Tesla, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Arvind Pattabhiraman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jared Migdal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paul Venhovens, San Francisco, CA (US);
Greg Peer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dhruv Kapoor, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alan Paul Clarke, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tesla, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A truck bed cover integrated in a vehicle (e.g., a truck), configured to move through an opening formed between a cab and a truck bed, and along a set of channels on the truck bed. The vehicle includes a motor engaged with the truck bed cover and configured to enable an automated movement of the truck bed cover along the set of channels. The vehicle in one embodiment is an electric truck configured to run off a battery pack stored within the electric truck. The truck bed cover includes a plurality of movable portions, the plurality of movable portions linked together in a flexible format.