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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2007
Kenichi Motohashi, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiko Fujimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Ichinose, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Kikuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Koichi Takemoto, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Motohashi, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiko Fujimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Ichinose, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Kikuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Koichi Takemoto, Tokyo, JP;
TCM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A floor section is formed at the rear of a vehicle body, at one side of the vehicle body. A lifting floor device having a floor body lifted and lowered by a lifting drive device is placed above the vehicle body. The floor body has a cutout at the left side of the floor body, at the rear half thereof. The right side of the floor body is used as a passage for a physically handicapped person. A stairway device is provided between the floor body and the floor section as a passage for an able-bodied person, on the floor body side in the cutout, and the stairway device is pivotable in a vertical plane. A lifting table is placed behind the vehicle body, on the left side thereof so that the lifting table can face the rear end of the passage for a physically handicapped person.