Jianghuai: Space adjustable pickup truck
The rear space of medium-sized pickup trucks has always been a point that everyone spits. In many of our previous articles, some people have put forward suggestions to make the back row space bigger and reduce the container space. But this kind of design certainly can't satisfy those people who mainly need to pull goods. So JAC pickup designed a patent for pickup with adjustable space.
In fact, such a patent is very easy to read, but I have to admit that this idea is "a big brain hole." This design of JAC can turn the rear of the passenger compartment into a movable "sliding cover", and some of them slide into the shipping box for a certain distance like the previous sliding mobile phone, thus expanding the rear space. The volume of the container part remains the same, but if the back row slides out, won't the proportion of containers be small? In order to deal with this problem, Jianghuai also designed the container to be slidable, so the volume of the container part will not change.
This patent has to be said to be ingenious, but in fact, if this car is made into such a "sliding" pickup truck, its body length will become two kinds, and it is not known whether it can meet various national regulations and standards. However, if this design can really be used in production cars, it will be really practical.
Chery: retractable tailgate+special container
Although Chery has not made efforts in the pickup truck market at present, the development of pickup truck patents has not stopped. The design of the cargo box cover has been exposed before, and this time Chery applied for a cargo box specially designed for cyclists/motorcycles. In the past, when pulling some bicycles and motorcycles with pickup trucks, it was dangerous to find a special metal plate to push the vehicles up and then fix them with cable ties. Therefore, Chery introduced a patent for pickup container with retractable tailgate and wheel bracket.
This patent makes full use of the thickness of the tailgate of pickup truck, and designs a multi-stage door panel that can be pulled out at the interlayer of the tailgate. Opening the tailgate and pulling out the door panel can form a slope that touches the ground, so that motorcycles and bicycles can directly push the cargo box, which is equivalent to saving extra metal plates.
In addition, a special wheel fixing device is designed inside the container, which can firmly fix the vehicle in the container. But in fact, this design has a similar design on the accessories of locomotive guns. It's just that the motorcycle gun makes the whole fixing frame into a slidable design, fixes the vehicle on the ground and then pulls it onto the cargo box. In a word, Chery's design is really unique.
Chang 'an: SUV with variable pickup truck
Changan can be regarded as the "new army" in the pickup truck market, but they saw the broad market of pickup trucks, so they also made patents related to pickup trucks in some designs, which is even more unique. Changan changed the rear of the SUV to the tailgate style, so that a car can be transformed into an SUV or a pickup truck.
Under normal circumstances, the rear door of this SUV is normally opened, that is, it turns up like your SUV and opens the trunk. However, if larger cargo needs to be loaded, the conventional tailgate will block the expansion capacity of the trunk, so it is necessary to remove the tailgate and replace it with another tailgate. This tailgate is just like the tailgate of a pickup truck, except that the tail of the trunk is sealed and an open container is formed on it. Just like a pickup truck, it is officially called "city pickup truck". It is also a way to play SUV/ pickup truck.
Summary: The opening of the pickup truck market has allowed many car companies to enter the market, which has also spawned various ingenious designs. Although some patents seem to be less likely to be mass-produced, they are really practical and can certainly meet the needs of some people. I hope that the policies related to pickup trucks can be improved in the future, so that these intimate designs can be added to production cars, which will really bring benefits to pickup truck users.
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