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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2023
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Josh D. Fraley, Saline, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle includes a truck bed that includes a bed deck and a storage system that includes a rack assembly including a housing having a fixed size that occupies at least 10 percent of a total area of the bed deck in a stowed position. The rack assembly includes a pivot mechanism that is mounted to a rear pillar of the vehicle and provides a fixed pivot location. The rack assembly is configured to pivot about the pivot location from the stowed position entirely within the truck bed overhanging the bed deck to an extended position at least partially out of the truck bed and overhanging a tailgate of the truck bed.
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