Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Body shell
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-22
2008-11-25
Gordon, Stephen (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Body shell
C296S181300, C296S187110
Reexamination Certificate
active
07455349
ABSTRACT:
There is provided a truck platform construction in which when an external force acts on a platform from the rear side, a width change portion surely absorbs the energy thereof to prevent the deformation of a cab without marring the appearance of a top rail. A side panel erected at both side edges of a platform has an outer panel which constitutes a side external wall of the platform and is formed with an outer bent element at the upper edge thereof and an inner panel which constitutes a side internal wall of the platform. A top rail is formed by fixing the outer bent element onto the inner panel. At the rear part of the top rail, a width change portion in which the width of the top rail changes is formed, and the width of the width change portion increases gradually toward the rear of a truck.
REFERENCES:
patent: 6871904 (2005-03-01), Bhat et al.
patent: 7152910 (2006-12-01), Kikuchi et al.
Kikuchi Manabu
Yamamoto Michiaki
Duane Morris LLP
Gordon Stephen
Hino Motors Ltd.
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