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US 12,162,519 · App. 17/236,217 · Granted Dec 10, 2024

Boarding system with a walk-on sealing cover

Inventors: Christoph Theis (Bad Wildungen, DE); Abbas Rasekhi Coochesfahani (Kassel, DE)
Assignee: GEBR. BODE GMBH & CO. KG
B61B1/02E01F1/00
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Patent No.
US 12,162,519
App. No.
17/236,217
Granted
Dec 10, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A boarding system for a vehicle includes at least one pivotable sealing cover, which is pivotable from a walk-on first position into a non-walk-on second position, wherein the sealing cover is flush with an outer side of the vehicle in the non-walk-on second position.

Claims (6)

1. A boarding system for a vehicle, comprising: at least one pivotable sealing cover, which is pivotable from a walk-on first position into a non-walk-on second position, wherein the sealing cover is flush with an outer side of the vehicle in the non-walk-on second position, wherein the sealing cover is connected to the sliding step via at least one actuating lever, and a movement of the sliding step drives a movement of the sealing cover via the at least one actuating lever, wherein the at least one actuating lever is movably guided in a sliding step guide track and a sealing cover end of the at least one actuating lever is guided in a sealing plate guide track.

2. The boarding system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one actuating lever has a guide roller at a free sliding step end, the guide roller being guided in the sliding step guide track.

3. The boarding system according to claim 1 , wherein the sealing cover has an underside that faces towards an underground of the vehicle, is hinged to a vehicle floor panel such that it can be pivoted both into the vehicle interior and out of the vehicle.

4. The boarding system according to claim 1 , wherein the sliding step guide track and the at least one actuating lever have curves along their course.

5. The boarding system according to claim 4 , wherein the at least one actuating lever, due to the curve, is configured such that the at least one actuating lever is bent away from its straight line, in the direction of the vehicle interior in the second position.

6. The boarding system according to claim 4 , wherein the sliding step guide track has two curves bent in opposite directions, resulting in an S-shaped region along the course of the sliding step guide track.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 23, 2021
From: THEIS, CHRISTOPH; COOCHESFAHANI, ABBAS RASEKHI
To: GEBR. BODE GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 056017/0309 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 20 2020 102 238.5 · Apr 22, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20210331715A1 · Oct 28, 2021
Cited By (1)
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