Patent ID: 8397329

Claim:
A ramp assembly for a vehicle comprising: a plurality of sections that have a partially pivotal connector provided between each adjacent section; a retainer secured to a load floor of the vehicle that retains at least one of the sections on the load floor; at least one of the plurality of the sections may be shifted off of the load floor to form a ramp between the load floor and a supporting surface that is remote from the load floor; and wherein each of said at least one section shifted off of the load floor forming the ramp are held in alignment relative to each other and are pivoted to a ramp angle by one of the partially pivotal connectors having a tongue part and a groove part between the at least one section retained on the load floor and the adjacent section shifted off of the load floor extending along the side of a ramp section; a tongue part having an adjacent recess that is cylindrical in cross section and configured to receive a protrusion adjacent a groove part of said second adjacent section; said tongue part having a finger configured to be received in said groove part of said second ramp section.