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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2022
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jeroen Lem, Wittem, NL;
Keith Allen Godin, Dearborn, MI (US);
Marcel Grein, Geilenkirchen, DE;
Nicole Leonarda Wilhelmina Eikelenberg, Meerssen, NL;
Johnathan Andrew Line, Northville, MI (US);
Joseph Michael Kish, Canton, MI (US);
Jimmy Moua, Canton, MI (US);
David Longin, Herent, BE;
Detlef Kuck, Inden, DE;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A rack system for a commercial vehicle including at least one guide rail fixable to at least one vehicle structure of the commercial vehicle, and at least one rack slidingly supported by the guide rail back and forth in a lateral direction of the commercial vehicle. To laterally balance a loading of the commercial vehicle the rack system comprises at least one fixing unit for temporary fixing the rack selectively in one of several fixing positions disposed along the guide rail by fixing the rack to the guide rail and/or to the vehicle structure.