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Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed

  • US 8,303,013 B2
  • Filed: 12/28/2009
  • Issued: 11/06/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A pick-up style utility vehicle with an expandable cargo bed, the pick-up style utility vehicle comprising a chassis supporting a front seat, a rear seat, a screen formation, and a bottom plate of the cargo bed,wherein the pick-up style utility vehicle is capable of changing between a normal state in which the rear seat is situated on the bottom plate and an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded into a free space formed by shunting the rear seat from a top of the bottom plate,wherein the screen formation is positioned between the cargo bed and the rear seat in the normal state, and comprises two screen formation divisions arranged as a double door, and each of the screen formation divisions is supported rotatably about a vertical shaft by the chassis,wherein in the normal state, the two screen formation divisions close a front of the cargo bed and form a screen, and the screen separates the rear seat and the cargo bed,wherein in the expanded state, the two screen formation divisions form expanded side plates of the cargo bed,wherein the rear seat comprises:

  • a main seat which is rotatable around a first horizontal shaft extending in a right and left direction relative to the chassis; and

    a backrest which is rotatable around a second horizontal shaft relative to the main seat,wherein the rear seat in the expanded state is positioned forward of the rear seat in the normal state,wherein each of the screen formation divisions comprises;

    a first screen formation section supported on an outside of the chassis in a right and left direction, the first screen formation section being rotatably supported about the vertical shaft in the normal state; and

    a second screen formation section supported at an inside of the chassis in the right and left direction in the normal state, the second screen formation section being rotatably supported around a vertical shaft by the first screen formation section in the normal state,wherein in the expanded state, the two first screen formation sections configure the expanded side plates, and the two second screen formation sections configure the screen.

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