Utility vehicle

• US 9,403,467 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2014
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kawasaki Motors
• Original Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Takeuchi, Kazuki, Takahashi, Keiji, Tsumiyama, Yoshinori, Takegami, Itsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): GORDON, STEPHEN T
• Application Number:
  US14/585,532
• Publication Number:
  US 20160185270A1
• Time in Patent Office: 581 Days
• Field of Search: 298/17.B, 298/17.R, 298/22.R, 298/19.B, 280/763.1, 296/183.2, 180/69.21, 248/351, 248/352, 248/354.5, 248/354.6
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 1/16 actuated by fluid-operated mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 1/283 Elements of tipping devices

Abstract

A utility vehicle includes: a chassis (1); a seat (6) arranged on the chassis; a cargo bed (8) arranged behind the seat and supported in a freely rotatable manner about a pivot (11) of the chassis so as to be changeable between a dumping position in which a front portion of the cargo bed is raised and a normal position in which the front portion of the cargo bed is not raised; a holding part (12) for biasing the cargo bed toward the dumping position so as to hold the cargo bed; and a support rod (101) provided separately from the holding part and supporting the cargo bed at the dumping position.

Claims

1. A utility vehicle comprising:

a chassis;

at least one seat row arranged on the chassis;

a cargo bed arranged behind the at least one seat row and supported in a freely rotatable manner about a pivot of the chassis so as to be changeable between a dumping position in which a front portion of the cargo bed is raised and a normal position in which the front portion of the cargo bed is not raised;

a holding part for biasing the cargo bed toward the dumping position so as to hold the cargo bed;

a support rod provided separately from the holding part and supporting the cargo bed at the dumping position; and

a screen provided between the at least one seat row and the cargo bed,

wherein the screen has at least one crossbar extending in a vehicle width direction;

wherein the support rod has a hook at a distal end thereof; and

wherein the hook can be engaged to the crossbar.

2. The utility vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the support rod is attached to the cargo bed in a freely rotatable manner at a proximal end thereof;

and

the support rod can be moved between a storage position of being stored in the cargo bed and a supporting position of supporting the cargo bed.

3. The utility vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the screen has a plurality of crossbars.

4. The utility vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the crossbar of the screen has a restriction pin for restricting a lock position for the hook in a vehicle width direction.