IP Library Granted Patent US 10,589,653
Granted Patent B2
US 10,589,653 · App. 15/889,795 · Granted Mar 17, 2020

Utility vehicle

Inventors: Itsuo Takegami (Hyogo, JP); Kazuhiro Maeda (Hyogo, JP); Takashi Hisamura (Hyogo, JP); Kazumasa Hisada (Hyogo, JP)
Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60N3/026
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Patent No.
US 10,589,653
App. No.
15/889,795
Granted
Mar 17, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A utility vehicle includes a passenger grip including a handle grip having an arm part extending from a dashboard toward the passenger seat, and a grip part at the arm part and gripped by the crew seated on the passenger seat, a holder outserted to the arm part of the handle grip and holding the arm part movably forward and backward in an extending direction of the arm part, and a single-action lock mechanism at the holder and fixing the handle grip to the holder. The single-action lock mechanism includes a lock pin having a distal end penetrating a through hole at the holder and engaged with an engagement hole at the arm part, a spring biasing the lock pin toward the arm part, a housing fixed to the holder and accommodating the lock pin and the spring, and a knob outside the housing and connected to the lock pin.

Claims (16)

1. A utility vehicle comprising:

a passenger grip for a crew member seated on a passenger seat, the passenger grip including:

a handle grip having an arm part extending from a dashboard toward the passenger seat, and a grip part provided at the arm part and to be gripped by the crew member seated on the passenger seat,

a holder outserted to the arm part of the handle grip and holding the arm part movably forward and backward in an extending direction of the arm part, and

a single-action lock mechanism provided at the holder and fixing the handle grip to the holder, the single-action lock mechanism including:

a lock pin having a distal end penetrating a through hole provided at the holder and engaged with at least one engagement hole provided at the arm part,

a spring biasing the lock pin toward the arm part,

a housing fixed to the holder and accommodating the lock pin and the spring, and

a knob disposed outside the housing and connected to the lock pin,

wherein the holder is disposed in a space behind the dashboard, the arm part of the handle grip extending from the space behind the dashboard toward a cabin space through an arm through hole provided at the dashboard, and

wherein the knob of the single-action lock mechanism is positioned in a glove box provided at the dashboard.

2. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the arm through hole is positioned above the glove box, and

the knob of the lock mechanism is positioned adjacent to a ceiling surface of an interior space of the glove box.

3. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the dashboard has a hood positioned above the arm through hole and covering the arm through hole.

4. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one engagement hole at the arm part of the handle grip comprises a plurality of engagement holes aligned in the extending direction of the arm part.

5. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the holder is detachably attached to a frame of the utility vehicle extending in the space behind the dashboard.

Assignments (3)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Jun 2, 2022
From: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 060300/0504 →
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ADDRESS OF THE ASSIGNEE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 044845 FRAME: 0086. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT . Recorded Mar 30, 2018
From: TAKEGAMI, ITSUO; MAEDA, KAZUHIRO; HISAMURA, TAKASHI; HISADA, KAZUMASA
To: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 045789/0091 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 6, 2018
From: TAKEGAMI, ITSUO; MAEDA, KAZUHIRO; HISAMURA, TAKASHI; HISADA, KAZUMASA
To: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 044845/0086 →