US 12,030,418 B2
Boarding and alighting support structure for vehicle
Daisuke Sato, Susono (JP); Daisuke Ishii, Shizuoka-ken (JP); Hiroki Izu, Nagoya (JP); Hiroki Morita, Hiratsuka (JP); Kei Sato, Toyota (JP); Masaki Nanahara, Toyota (JP); Kazumi Serizawa, Toyota (JP); Hironobu Tanaka, Tokyo-to (JP); Shunsuke Mogi, Hachioji (JP); Takashi Hayashi, Nagoya (JP); and Akihiro Kusumoto, Susono (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/510,659.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-180770 (JP), filed on Oct. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0126742 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. B60P 1/43 (2006.01); A61G 3/06 (2006.01); A61G 3/08 (2006.01)
CPC B60P 1/43 (2013.01) [A61G 3/061 (2013.01); A61G 3/067 (2016.11); A61G 3/0808 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A boarding and alighting support structure for vehicle having a deck capable of boarding in a wheelchair, the boarding and alighting support structure comprising:
a slope plate always extending obliquely toward a ground from an entrance/exit end of the deck; and
a mounting member that attaches a base portion of the slope plate at the entrance/exit end of the deck,
wherein, the mounting member is configured to so that
one end side is fixed to the base portion,
other end side is fixed to the entrance/exit end, and
the one end side is bendable with respect to the other end side.