| US 7,578,544 B1 | ||
| Pickup-style work vehicle | ||
| Teruo Shimamura, Nishinomiya (Japan); Norimi Nakamura, Sakai (Japan); Yoshimi Hirooka, Sakai (Japan); and Taro Nakamura, Sakai (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kubota Corporation, Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 03, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/203,351. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2008-021696 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2008. | ||
| Int. Cl. B62D 25/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 296—183.2 [296/26.11; 296/65.05; 298/17 R] | 4 Claims |
| 1. A pickup-style work vehicle comprising:
a front driver's seat;
a backseat;
a loading floor located rearwardly of the backseat, the loading floor capable of being moved to a dumping position;
a loading floor size changeover mechanism that changes a size of the loading floor between a first state in which a front
wall portion and a front bottom portion of the loading floor are moved forwardly in a fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle
and a second state in which the front wall portion and the front bottom portion of the loading floor are moved rearwardly
in the fore-and-aft direction;
a backseat posture change mechanism that changes a posture of the backseat between a first posture which is a non-use state
and a second posture which is a use state, a fore-and-aft dimension of the backseat in the first posture being less than the
fore-and-aft dimension of the backseat in the second posture;
wherein the backseat in the first posture is located immediately forwardly of the loading floor in the first state and the
backseat in the second posture is located immediately forwardly of the loading floor in the second state.
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