Utility vehicle
View Patent ↗A utility vehicle includes a vehicle body; a seat provided on the vehicle body; a pair of right and left entrances through which a user to be seated on the seat gets into and out of the vehicle, the entrances being provided at both sides of the vehicle body in a vehicle width direction; and a pair of right and left doors for opening and closing the pair of right and left entrances, respectively; each of the pair of right and left doors including a door body closing at least a portion of a corresponding entrance and a hinge for coupling the door body to the vehicle body such that the door body is rotatable around the hinge; and the door body including a door component which is substantially symmetric in shape in a rightward and leftward direction.
1. A utility vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body;
a seat provided on the vehicle body;
a pair of right and left entrances through which a user to be seated on the seat gets into and out of the vehicle, the entrances being provided at both sides of the vehicle body in a vehicle width direction; and
a pair of right and left doors for opening and closing the pair of right and left entrances, respectively;
each of the pair of right and left doors including a door body closing at least a portion of a corresponding entrance, a hinge for coupling the door body to the vehicle body such that the door body is rotatable around the hinge, and a latch device having an operation member for opening and closing the door;
the door body including a door component which is substantially symmetric in shape in a rightward and leftward direction and having a mounting hole to which the operation member is mounted; and
the mounting hole being a hole formed from the door component wherein the door component has a hollowed shape formed using resin by blow molding.
2. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein a pair of right and left front doors are arranged side by side at a front and a pair of right and left rear doors are arranged side by side at a rear;
the door body constituting each of the pair of right and left front doors including a door component which is substantially symmetric in shape in the rightward and leftward direction; and
the door body constituting each of the pair of right and left rear doors including a door component which is substantially symmetric in shape in the rightward and leftward direction.
3. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the doors includes a decorative cover mounted to an outer surface of the door body in the vehicle width direction.
4. The utility vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein the door body includes a plurality of recesses on an outer surface and an inner surface in the vehicle width direction; and
a pair of recesses among the plurality of recesses, the pair of recesses facing each other in the vehicle width direction and having respective holes into which fastener members for fastening the decorative cover and the door body together are inserted, the holes communicating with each other.
5. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein the door body includes recesses on an outer surface and an inner surface in the vehicle width direction; and
at least portions of the recesses are positioned forward relative to a seat bottom of the seat and above an upper surface of the seat bottom of the seat to correspond to a knee of the user seated on the seat when viewed from a side.
6. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the door body includes a plurality of recesses on an outer surface and an inner surface in the vehicle width direction; and
a pair of recesses among the plurality of recesses, which face each other in the vehicle width direction, have respective holes into which fastener members for fastening the door body and the hinge together are inserted, the holes communicating with each other.