US 11,840,166 B2
Boarding handrail
Hideyuki Sakurai, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-Ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Jun. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/363,004.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-146330 (JP), filed on Aug. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0063471 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. B60N 3/02 (2006.01); A61L 2/10 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 3/023 (2013.01) [A61L 2/10 (2013.01); A61L 2202/16 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A boarding handrail comprising:
an outer pipe which is supported by a support member provided on a periphery of an entrance of a vehicle and of which one segment is removed to form a non-annular shape;
an inner pipe that has a substantially C-shaped cross-section as seen from an axial direction, with an outside diameter smaller than an inside diameter of the outer pipe, and is disposed in the one segment by being suspended across one end and the other end of the outer pipe;
a sheet member that continuously covers an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface of the inner pipe and is capable of being moved in a circumferential direction of the inner pipe by a driving device provided inside the inner pipe; and
a disinfecting device that is provided inside the inner pipe and disinfects the sheet member by irradiating the sheet member with ultraviolet light.