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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2010
Applicants:
John Salmon, North York, CA;
Pasit Banjongpanith, Stouffville, CA;
Dennis Loui, Richmond Hill, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Multimatic Inc., Markham, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60R 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A dual motion vehicle access step that can be deployed by initially rotating it around a pivot joint in response to an operator pushing down on the step to overcome a closing torque and then translating the step away from the vehicle in response to a biasing force. Both of the closing torque and biasing force are provided by a single energy storage device. An interlocking latch is configured to selectively structurally lock-out either the rotating motion or translating motion on an alternating basis.