WING BODY-TYPE TRUCK VEHICLE

Abstract

With regard to mobile residential facilities such as camping cars, provided is a wing body-type truck vehicle to which a removable residential facility is mounted. When installing a residential facility 4 inside a cargo compartment of the wing body-type truck vehicle, fixing mechanisms 5, 6 are used to prevent the relative movement of the residential facility 4 and a load bed of said truck. When separating the residential facility 4 from the cargo compartment, said fixing mechanisms 5, 6 are removed, thus allowing the residential facility to move.

Claims

1. A wing body-type truck vehicle to which a removable residential facility is installed, wherein, when installing a residential facility inside a cargo compartment of the wing body-type truck vehicle, fixing mechanisms are used to prevent the relative movement of the residential facility and a load bed of the truck, and wherein, when separating the residential facility from the cargo compartment, the fixing mechanisms are removed, thus allowing the residential facility to move.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0007] FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a residential facility. (Examples 1 and 2) FIG. 2 illustrates how to mount a residential facility and fixing mechanisms on a truck vehicle.

[0008] (Examples 1 and 2) FIG. 3 illustrates how to mount a residential facility on a truck vehicle so as to be used as a residential facility. (Example 3)

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0009] While a truck vehicle is running, there is no person in the residential facility, so the residential facility is considered freight.

Examples 1 and 2

[0010] How the residential facility according to the present invention is installed on a wing body-type truck vehicle is described below. The wing (reference No. 8 in FIG. 2) of the load bed of the truck vehicle is flipped up. A residential facility (FIG. 1 overall view, reference No. 4 in FIG. 2) is of a size to be mounted on the load bed of the truck vehicle (reference No. 7 in FIG. 2). To mount the residential facility on the load bed of the truck vehicle, the forks (reference No. 3 in FIG. 1) of a forklift are inserted, the residential facility (FIG. 1 overall view) is lifted up, and it is mounted on the load bed of the truck vehicle load bed. The truck vehicle and the residential facility are different in size because they are constructed via separate processes, so a gap is created between the truck vehicle and the residential facility. To fill the gap and prevent the relative movement of the residential facility, fixing mechanisms (reference Nos. 5 and 6 in FIG. 2) are used. Then, the wing of the truck vehicle is flipped down.

Example 3

[0011] Once the truck vehicle is parked, the residential facility may be used. To use the residential facility, one of the wings (reference No. 8 in FIG. 3) is flipped up to let in outside light (reference No. 4 in FIG. 3), after which the side gate (reference No. 9 in FIG. 3) and the tailgate lifter (reference No. 10 in FIG. 3) are leveled to the same height as the residential surface to widen the residential surface. The back door (reference No. 11 in FIG. 3) is opened and the entrance roof (reference No. 3 in FIG. 3) is attached. The steps (reference No. 12 in FIG. 3) are attached for people to climb up and down.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

[0012] Although a restroom and a toilet may also be mounted on the wing body-type truck vehicle according to the present invention, there are many public restrooms, public baths, and coin laundries in Japan, so these facilities which are necessary for life may be installed outside the truck vehicle residential facility. This invention may also be mounted on a truck with a loading capacity of less than 8 tons so, due to the reform of the driver's license law in 2007, many people with a driver's license for medium-size vehicles will be allowed to drive a truck with a loading capacity of less than 8 tons.

EXPLANATION OF THE SYMBOLS

[0013] 1 Sash windows of the residential facility [0014] 2 Entrance of the residential facility [0015] 3 Entry for the forks of a forklift [0016] 4 residential facility [0017] 5 Fixing mechanism [0018] 6 Fixing mechanism [0019] 7 Load bed of the wing body-type truck vehicle [0020] 8 Wing [0021] 9 Side gate [0022] 10 Tailgate lifter [0023] 11 Rear door for the load bed of the truck vehicle [0024] 12 Steps