Engine-driven work machine system

• US 20080054858A1
• Filed: 08/24/2007
• Published: 03/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Yoshio, Uchimi, Makoto
• Granted Patent: US 7,482,706 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 322/17
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 63/04 for electric generators
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 63/047 Movable engine-generator combinations on wheels

Abstract

An engine-driven work machine system includes an engine; a work machine driven by the engine; a frame supporting the engine and the work machine; and a sound-insulating housing provided on the frame. The sound-insulating housing includes a bottom plate; a pair of opposing sidewall plates extending from the bottom plate with the engine and the work machine therebetween; and a fuel tank connecting upper ends of the sidewall plates. A mounting flange formed around an outer periphery of the fuel tank is superposed on a flat tank-supporting portion formed at the upper ends of the sidewall plates. A downward-facing collar is formed at an outer end of the mounting flange. An upward-facing collar is formed in the tank-supporting portion and arranged inwardly of the downward-facing collar with respect to the sound-insulating housing. A seal member is provided outwardly of the upward-facing collar and between the mounting flange and tank-supporting portion.

Claims

1. An engine-driven work machine system comprising:

an engine;

a work machine driven by the engine;

a frame supporting the engine and the work machine;

a sound-insulating housing provided on the frame, and housing the engine and the work machine, the sound-insulating housing including;

a bottom plate;

a pair of opposing sidewall plates extending upward and away from the bottom plate with the engine and the work machine therebetween; and

a fuel tank connecting upper ends of the sidewall plates to each other,

wherein a mounting flange formed around an outer periphery of the fuel tank is superposed on a flat tank-supporting portion formed at the upper ends of the sidewall plates,

wherein a downward-facing collar is formed at an outer end of the mounting flange,

wherein an upward-facing collar is formed in the tank-supporting portion and arranged inwardly of the downward-facing collar with respect to the sound-insulating housing, and

wherein a seal member is provided outwardly of the upward-facing collar with respect to the sound-insulating housing and between the mounting flange and the tank-supporting portion.

2. The work machine according to claim 1, wherein the seal member is mounted to the mounting flange and is integrally provided with a seal lip which inclines outward and downward into contact with the tank-supporting portion.

3. The work machine according to claim 1, wherein a gap is defined between the upward-facing collar and the seal member.

4. The work machine according to claim 2, wherein a gap is defined between the upward-facing collar and the seal member.

5. An engine-driven work machine system comprising:

an engine;

a work machine driven by the engine;

a frame supporting the engine and the work machine;

a sound-insulating housing provided on the frame and housing the engine and the work machine, the sound-insulating housing including, in a sidewall thereof, a maintenance window and a lid for opening and closing the maintenance window,

wherein the maintenance window is formed, by punching, in a steel sidewall plate constituting the sidewall of the sound-insulating housing, and the lid is formed by a blank material punched out during the punching of the maintenance window; and

wherein a seal member is mounted around an outer peripheral end of the lid and protrudes outward and contacts an outer surface of the sidewall plate when the lid is closed.

6. The work machine according to claim 5, wherein one end of the lid is connected through a hinge to the sidewall plate, a stopper plate is secured to the sidewall plate and faces the other end of the lid, and a cushion projection is formed in the seal member and resiliently abuts against the stopper plate to define a closed position of the lid.

7. The work machine according to claim 5, wherein an inward-facing collar is formed around an inner peripheral edge of the maintenance window and extends into the sound-insulating housing, and wherein an inner seal lip and an outer seal lip are formed in the seal member, the inner seal lip contacting an outer peripheral surface of the inward-facing collar when the lid is closed, and the outer seal lip contacting the outer surface of the sidewall plate when the lid is closed.

8. The work machine according to claim 7, wherein one end of the lid is connected through a hinge to the sidewall plate, a stopper plate is secured to the sidewall plate and faces the other end of the lid, and a cushion projection is formed in the seal member and resiliently abuts against the stopper plate to define a closed position of the lid.