Toyota’s latest patent filing reveals an under-seat fold-out step system that should provide easier access to your roof rack.
Our intrepid patent hunters have just found a new and intriguing idea from Toyota. We’re calling it the Step Seat, and it’s a clever way to make it easier for truck and SUV buyers to reach cargo mounted to the roof of their vehicle.

Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing filed for the patent for the new invention called “Vehicle Roof Access Device.” It’s a patent filing, not a copyright, so you don’t get any clever marketing names just yet.
Published on June 7, the document calls it “an apparatus for enabling a user to access a roof of the vehicle and methods of using the same.”
We call it a clever step that pulls out of the truck’s seat and hides away when not in use.
Toyota Seat Step Patent

Multi-Position Roof Stair
