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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2009
Kenichi Sumi, Takasago, JP;
Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Osaka, JP;
Tetsuaki Shirai, Kobe, JP;
Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A pick-up style utility vehicle has a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed in this order from a front of the vehicle. The cargo bed has at least left and right stationary side panels and expandable side panels that extend forward from the front ends of the stationary side panels. 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 expandable side panels are rotatable about rotational shafts forward and rearward in a vehicle width direction so as to be shiftable between a position in the expanded state and a position in the non-expanded state.