Patent ID: 11926203
Assignee: nan
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 13:
14. A method of using a truck bed cover comprising:
providing the truck bed cover having:
a top panel;
a plurality of side panels connected to the top panel, each of the side panels including a connection portion;
a rear panel slidably disposed within the top panel;
a motor; and
a threaded rod coupled to the connection portion of each of the side panels,
wherein:
the top panel and the plurality of side panels are configured to move between a collapsed tonneau configuration and an extended cap configuration,
the rear panel is configured to slide out from the top panel to form the rear panel of the truck bed cover in the extended cap configuration, and
the motor is configured for moving the truck bed cover between the collapsed tonneau configuration and the extended cap configuration, the motor configured to rotate the threaded rod to move the connection portion of each of the side panels causing the plurality of side panels to move outward from a center of the truck bed cover from the collapsed tonneau configuration to the extended cap configuration and to reversibly rotate the threaded rod to move the connection portion of each of the side panels causing the plurality of side panels to move inward toward the center of the truck bed cover from the extended cap configuration to the collapsed tonneau configuration;
placing the truck bed cover on a truck bed in the collapsed tonneau configuration;
converting the truck bed cover from the collapsed tonneau cover configuration to the extended cap configuration;
slidably removing the rear panel from the top panel of the truck bed; and
rotating the rear panel down from the top panel to form the rear panel adjacent to a plurality of side panels of the truck bed cover.