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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2009
Satoshi Takaya, Akashi, JP;
Masafumi Inoue, Miki, JP;
Shinichi Tanba, Kobe, JP;
Daisuke Takagi, Kakogawa, JP;
Masahiro Koga, Kobe, JP;
Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Osaka, JP;
Takao Kawabata, Kobe, JP;
Dave Reinke, Lincoln, NE (US);
Satoshi Takaya, Akashi, JP;
Masafumi Inoue, Miki, JP;
Shinichi Tanba, Kobe, JP;
Daisuke Takagi, Kakogawa, JP;
Masahiro Koga, Kobe, JP;
Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Osaka, JP;
Takao Kawabata, Kobe, JP;
Dave Reinke, Lincoln, NE (US);
Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
A pick-up style utility vehicle with an expandable cargo bed, including a front seat, a rear seat, a stationary bottom plate serving as a bottom face of the cargo bed, an expansion bottom plate for expanding the bottom face of the cargo bed, and a shared linkage mechanism for holding the rear seat at a use position where the rear seat is positioned on the upper side of the stationary bottom plate and a shunting position where the rear seat is shunted into a rear leg room provided in front of and below the stationary bottom plate. The shared linkage mechanism also holds the expansion bottom plate at a storage position where the expansion bottom plate is above the stationary bottom plate and an expansion position where the expansion bottom plate is positioned over the leg room.