Abstract
A tailgate locking/unlocking system is adapted to lock or unlock a tailgate of a vehicle. The tillage locking/unlocking system includes a rod shaft, a first lock structure, a second lock structure, at least one handle assembly, a first receiver, and a second receiver. The rod shaft is disposed in the tailgate of the vehicle and extended along a width direction thereof. The rod shaft has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The first and second lock structures are coupled to the first and second ends. The handle assembly is pivotally coupled to the first or second end of the rod shaft and coupled to the first or second lock structure. The first and the second receivers are disposed on a first lateral side and a second lateral side of a body of the vehicle for engaging with the first and second lock structures.
Background/Summary
BACKGROUND
(1) In utility vehicles, such a mini truck, a side-by-side vehicle (SSV), or a utility task vehicle, may have handles for the user to open the tailgate thereof. In the operation of the utility vehicle for opening and closing the tailgate, the handles disposed on both lateral sides of the vehicle have to be operated by the user simultaneously to lock or unlock the tailgates of the utility vehicles. With an increase in dimensions of the vehicles, and thus an increase in widths of the vehicles, it becomes more difficult to simultaneously control or operate both handles disposed for locking the tailgates of the vehicles to the lateral sides thereof and open the tailgate for loading the cargo to a loading space of the utility vehicle through a single user.
(2) Further limitations and disadvantages of conventional and traditional approaches will become apparent to one of skill in the art, through comparison of described systems with some aspects of the present disclosure, as set forth in the remainder of the present application and with reference to the drawings.
