Patent ID: 7712816

Claim:
A movable floor apparatus for a vehicle, which includes a movable board disposed beneath feet of an occupant seated in an occupant seat, to cover an upper surface of a vehicle body floor, said movable floor apparatus comprising: a drive source disposed below said occupant seat; a driving-force transmission mechanism, according to a driving force of said drive source, for transmitting a force acting in a frontward or a rearward direction of a vehicle body to a rear portion of said movable board, a pair of right and left support members provided on said vehicle body floor to extend upwardly therefrom for supporting opposite right and left edges of said movable board, said support members having guide means adapted to guide said movable board in such a manner that said movable board receiving said frontwardly or rearwardly acting force from said driving-force transmission mechanism is lifted or lowered while being moved in the acting direction of said force; and said movable board includes a support shaft which extends in a lateral direction of the vehicle body and has opposite right and left ends supported by the respective ones of said right and left support members; wherein said movable board is supported in such a manner as to be selectively displaced upwardly and downwardly in response to said frontwardly or rearwardly acting force from said driving-force transmission mechanism; and said guide means consists of a guide groove adapted to slidably support said support shaft and defined to extend with a frontwardly-upward inclination.