Assigned to Kubota for Pickup-Style Work Vehicle

Norimi Nakamura and Yoshimi Hirooka and Taro Nakamura, all from Sakai, Japan, Teruo earrings of Nishinomiya, Japan, have developed a pickup-style work vehicle with driver's section.

The patent has been assigned to Kubota Corp., Osaka, Japan.

According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pickup-style work vehicle comprises a driver's section, a loading floor that is located rearwardly of the driver's section and that can be moved to a dumping position, a loading necklaces size changeover mechanism that changes a size of the loading floor between a first state in which a front wall portion and a front bottom portion of the loading floor are moved forwardly in a fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle and a second state in which the front wall portion and the front bottom portion of the loading floor are moved rearwardly in the fore-and-aft direction, a fixing member connected to the vehicle, and partition member position change mechanism for changing the position of the partition member in the fore-and-aft direction of the vehicle between a forward position and a rearward position. The partition member when placed at the forward position is located immediately forwardly of the loading floor in the first state while the partition member when placed at the rearward position is located immediately forwardly of the loading floor in the second state."

The original application was filed on Sept. 10, 2008. For more information about US Fed News money clips awards please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, US Fed News.