IP Library Granted Patent US 11,034,274
Granted Patent B2
US 11,034,274 · App. 16/507,232 · Granted Jun 15, 2021

Utility vehicle

Inventors: Kenta Nakamura (Kakogawa, JP); Itsuo Takegami (Kobe, JP)
Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60N3/026
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Patent No.
US 11,034,274
App. No.
16/507,232
Granted
Jun 15, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A utility vehicle includes a passenger grip for a crew seated on a passenger seat. The passenger grip includes 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 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 direct on of the arm part, and a single-action look mechanism provided 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 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.

Claims (26)

1. A utility vehicle comprising

a passenger grip for a crew seated on a passenger seat,

the passenger grip including

a handle grip provided with an arm part that extends in a first direction from a dashboard toward the passenger seat and that has a shape of a quadrangular prism, and a grip part provided at the arm part and gripped by the crew seated on the passenger seat,

a holder that is outserted to the arm part of the handle grip, holds the arm part movably forward and backward in the first direction, and has a rectangular tubular shape,

a bush that is inserted into the holder, guides the arm part of the handle grip so as to be movable forward and backward, is made of a resin material, and has a rectangular tubular shape, 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,

the bush including

a first semi-cylindrical member and a second semi-cylindrical member that face each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and

at least one guide surface part provided on at least one of inner surfaces of the first and second semi-cylindrical members, the guide surface part being a flat surface parallel to the first direction and coming in surface contact with the arm part of the handle grip in a slidable manner.

2. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

the first and second semi-cylindrical members respectively have bottom walls that face each other in the second direction across the arm part of the handle grip, each of the bottom walls including the guide surface part.

3. The utility vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein

the first and second semi-cylindrical members respectively have pairs of side walls that extend from both ends of the bottom walls in a third direction orthogonal to both the first direction and the second direction, each of the pairs of side walls extending from the corresponding bottom wall so as to be away from each other with distance from the bottom wall.

4. The utility vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein

the side wall on one side in the third direction of the pair of side walls in the first semi-cylindrical member includes the guide surface part, and

the side wall on the other side in the third direction of the pair of side walls in the second semi-cylindrical member includes the guide surface part.

5. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

the first and second semi-cylindrical members include engagement parts which are engaged with each other.

6. The utility vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

the first and second semi-cylindrical members are identical.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 21, 2022
From: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058811/0875 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 10, 2019
From: NAKAMURA, KENTA; TAKEGAMI, ITSUO
To: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 049714/0047 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation In Part 15889795 · Feb 6, 2018
Related Publication 20190329688A1 · Oct 31, 2019