Extendable cargo bed floor and cargo bed side walls

US12090912B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Michael John Harmon · Westland, US
• Ryan Mathew Sandor · North Wales, US
• Vincent Anthony Chimento · Plymouth, US
• Dragan B. Stojkovic · Taylor, US
• Jack Marchlewski · Saline, US
• Amol Borkar · Nagpur, IN
• Christopher Bowser · Dearborn, US
• Kirk E. Sanborn · Shelby Charter Township, US
• Michelle Lorraine Sacka · Royal Oak, US
• Hussain Z. Tajmahal · Detroit, US
• Dale F. Jordan, III · Royal Oak, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 17, 2022
• Grant date: Sep 17, 2024
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D33/0273
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle cargo bed system includes a floor assembly that transitions back-and-forth between a standard floor position and an extended floor position. The floor assembly includes floor sections each having a cargo support surface. The floor sections are folded when the floor assembly is in the standard floor position. The floor sections are unfolded when the floor assembly is in the extended floor position. The assembly further includes first and second side wall assemblies of the cargo bed that transition back-and-forth between a standard wall position and an extended wall position. The first and second side wall assemblies each include an extendable portion and a fixed portion. The extendable portions extend and retract relative to the respective fixed portions when the first and second side wall assemblies transition back-and-forth between the standard wall position and the extended wall position.