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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2022
Bell Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Michael Ross Wilkinson, North Richland Hills, TX (US);
James Everett Kooiman, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Clegg Benjamin Brian Smith, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Jeffrey Matthew Williams, Aledo, TX (US);
Tjepke Heeringa, Dallas, TX (US);
David G. Carlson, North Richland Hills, TX (US);
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
A folding step system includes a housing forming an interior space and a step comprising a step surface. The step is movable between a stowed configuration in which substantially all of the step surface is disposed within the interior space and a deployed configuration in which at least a portion of the step surface is disposed outside of the interior space and at least a portion of the step surface is disposed within the interior space.