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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2009
Hirokazu Morita, Kakogawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Iwai, Kobe, JP;
Masaki Tanaka, Hirakata, JP;
Wayne Schafer, Lincoln, NE (US);
Hirokazu Morita, Kakogawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Iwai, Kobe, JP;
Masaki Tanaka, Hirakata, JP;
Wayne Schafer, Lincoln, NE (US);
Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
A pick-up style utility vehicle having a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed in this order from the front of the vehicle. The cargo bed is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded forward into a rear riding space in front of the cargo bed and a non-expanded state not occupying the rear riding space. The utility vehicle has load storing devices in the leg space of the rear seat which serves as a load storing space in the expanded state.