US 12,103,454 B2
Vehicle transporting device
Toshiki Kitajima, Mishima (JP); Norinao Watanabe, Susono (JP); Yutaka Nakamura, Susono (JP); Naoya Kajita, Toyota (JP); Kenji Nakano, Toyota (JP); Takafumi Sannomiya, Okazaki (JP); Yasutada Shimizu, Okazaki (JP); and Kohei Yasuda, Susono (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Apr. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/713,605.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-104308 (JP), filed on Jun. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0410789 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. B60P 3/073 (2006.01); B60P 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60P 3/073 (2013.01) [B60P 1/02 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle transporting device that transports a four-wheeled vehicle, the vehicle transporting device comprising:
a bogie frame inserted into a space below a vehicle body from front or rear of the four-wheeled vehicle;
a device main body that raises, lowers, and tows the bogie frame, the device main body includes a motor and an elevating device, the motor is configured to drive a pair of bogie front wheels to tow the bogie frame, and the elevating device includes one of an air spring or a hydraulic cylinder to raise and lower the bogie frame;
an upright frame that is provided perpendicular to a plane defined by the bogie frame and that connects the bogie frame and the device main body at a tip portion of the bogie frame, wherein:
the bogie frame includes at least two pipes disposed parallel to a longitudinal direction of the bogie frame and two frame members disposed parallel to the at least two pipes at a position outside the at least two pipes in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction;
the at least two pipes include two pipes spaced apart from each other in the orthogonal direction;
the vehicle transporting device further includes a reinforcing member extending in the orthogonal direction at the tip portion and between the two pipes facing each other;
the two frame members, the reinforcing member, and the upright frame are connected to each other at the tip portion; and
the vehicle transporting device further comprises:
a first additional reinforcing member provided in parallel with the reinforcing member at a position rearward of the tip portion in a front-rear direction of the bogie frame and between the two pipes facing each other; and
a second additional reinforcing member connected to the first additional reinforcing member and provided in parallel with the longitudinal direction between the two pipes spaced apart from each other in the orthogonal direction, the second additional reinforcing member spaced apart from the two pipes spaced apart from each other in the orthogonal direction.