Upper turning body for crane

• US 10,464,789 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2014
• Issued: 11/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Klaus Schmidt, Kobelco Construction Machinery Company Limited (Kobe Steel Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kobe Steel Limited
• Inventors: Kataoka, Yasuto, Yamaguchi, Takunori, Hamaguchi, Hiromitsu, Nakashima, Yasuhiro, Hanawa, Yoji, Nakayama, Hiroki
• Primary Examiner(s): Dondero, William E
• Assistant Examiner(s): Campos, Jr., Juan J
• Application Number:
  US15/120,975
• Publication Number:
  US 20160362282A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,077 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 13/54 Operator's stands or cabins
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 23/36 mounted on road or rail vehicles; Manually-movable jib-cranes for use in workshops; Floating cranes with pneumatic or hydraulic motors B66C23/54; vehicle or ship aspects B60 - B63
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 23/62 Constructional features or details of dredgers E02F
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 23/64 Jibs

Abstract

An upper turning body mounted on a lower body for a crane includes a turning frame mounted on the lower body to turn freely and a boom provided to the turning frame to be raised and lowered freely. The turning frame includes a pair of attachment brackets to which a base end section of the boom is attached such that the boom is free to be raised and lowered, and a main frame to which the pair of attachment brackets are provided with an interval in the left-right direction of the upper turning body. The dimension of the main frame in the front-rear direction of the upper turning body orthogonal to the left-right direction is smaller than the dimension of the main frame in the left-right direction.

Claims

1. An upper turning body for a mobile crane including a lower traveling body, a turn support attached to the lower traveling body, and the upper turning body that is to be mounted to turn freely on the lower traveling body with the turn support therebetween, the upper turning body for a crane comprising:

a turning frame to be mounted on the lower travelling body to turn freely; and

a boom provided to the turning frame to be raised and lowered freely, wherein

the turning frame includes a pair of attachment brackets to which a base end section of the boom is attached such that the boom is free to be raised and lowered, and a main frame to which the pair of attachment brackets are provided with an interval in a left-right direction of the upper turning body, and

a dimension of the main frame in a front-rear direction of the upper turning body orthogonal to the left-right direction is smaller than a dimension of the main frame in the left-right direction,

wherein the turning frame further includes a subframe arranged on a rear side of the main frame and separably joined to the main frame, a dimension of the subframe in the left-right direction is smaller than the dimension of the main frame in the left-right direction, a dimension of the subframe in the front-rear direction is larger than the dimension of the subframe in the left-right direction, and the subframe is joined to a center part of the main frame in the left-right direction so as to be formed in a T-shape with the main frame when seen from above.

2. The upper turning body for a mobile crane according to claim 1, wherein

the boom includes a lower boom attached to the pair of attachment brackets and forming a region of the boom, the region being a region which has a specific length from a base end section of the boom to a tip end section side of the boom, and

a dimension of the lower boom in the left-right direction increases toward a base end section side of the lower boom.

3. The upper turning body for a mobile crane according to claim 2, wherein the lower boom is formed of a plurality of divided booms arranged side by side in the left-right direction, and adjacent divided booms of the plurality of divided booms are separably joined to each other.

4. The upper turning body for a crane according to claim 3, wherein the plurality of divided booms include a middle divided boom, a left-side divided boom arranged on a left side of the middle divided boom and separably joined to the middle divided boom, and a right-side divided boom arranged on a right side of the middle divided boom and separably joined to the middle divided boom.

5. The upper turning body for a crane according to claim 4, wherein

a left side surface of the left-side divided boom is inclined away from a right side surface of the left-side divided boom toward the base end section side of the lower boom, and

a right side surface of the right-side divided boom is inclined away from a left side surface of the right-side divided boom toward the base end section side of the lower boom.

6. The upper turning body for a crane according to claim 2, further comprising:

a cab in which operation of the crane by an operator is performed, wherein

the cab is arranged in a position offset leftward or rightward from a turning center of the turning frame and attached to the turning frame,

the lower boom includes a first segment and a second segment, the first segment being arranged on one side of the turning center in the left-right direction, the one side being a side on which the cab is disposed, the second segment being arranged on the other side of the turning center in the left-right direction, the other side being a side opposite to the one side,

the first segment has a width in the left-right direction which is smaller than a width of the second segment in the left-right direction, and

the first segment has a cab-side end which is one end in the left-right direction, and the cab-side end is disposed in a position offset toward the turning center from the cab in the left-right direction.

7. The upper turning body for a mobile crane according to claim 1, wherein

the main frame is provided with a turn support attachment section to which the turn support is to be attached.