Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Seats with body modifications
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-25
2011-01-25
Engle, Patricia L (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Seats with body modifications
C296S063000, C296S193010, C296S203010
Reexamination Certificate
active
07874605
ABSTRACT:
A utility vehicle includes a vehicle body frame including a left and right side portion, a front seat affixed to the vehicle body frame, and a rear seat affixed to the vehicle body frame provided to the rear of the front seat. The vehicle also includes a rear roof support structure including a left member and right pipe member that extend generally in the vertical direction from the vehicle body frame, disposed respectively at both the left and right side portions of the vehicle body frame to the rear of the rear seat. At least a downward direction portion of the left pipe member and right pipe member are positioned lower than a seating surface of a seat cushion portion of the rear seat and are angled so as to extend rearward as the left and right pipe members extend upward. A pair of rear wheels are supported by the vehicle body frame provided at a position that is below the seat cushion portion of the rear seat wherein, at least a portion thereof, is coincident with the rear seat and with the rear roof support structure in the front/back direction of the vehicle.
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Inui Akira
Smith Craig
Tadipatri Chaitanya
Yamamura Takashi
Engle Patricia L
Keating & Bennett LLP
Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of America
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