Transmission mechanism for a working vehicle

• US 6,003,391 A
• Filed: 09/01/1998
• Issued: 12/21/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yanmar Company Limited (Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd. (Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kojima, Masaaki, Rugou, Akinobu, Inanaga, Masashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Marmor, Charles A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEWIS, TISHA D
• Application Number:
  US09/145,022
• Time in Patent Office: 476 Days
• Field of Search: 192/3.57, 192/4 A, 74/11, 74/15.63, 74/15.66, 74/15.2, 180/53.1, 180/248, 180/249
• US Class Current: 74/15.66
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 17/28 characterised by arrangement, location, or type of power take-off
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2037/044 comprising a separate gearing unit for shifting between forward or reverse
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2037/049 Forward-reverse units with forward and reverse gears for achieving multiple forward and reverse gears, e.g. for working machines
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 37/04 Combinations of toothed gearings only F16H37/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 37/043 without gears having orbital motion
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/70 specially adapted for change-speed gearing in group arrangement, i.e. with separate change-speed gear trains arranged in series, e.g. range or overdrive-type gearing arrangements

Abstract

A transmission mechanism having a PTO transmission system and a traveling transmission system and used for a working vehicle, which is so constructed that a input shaft 8 is coaxially freely perforated through a hollow traveling clutch shaft 13, both ends of input shaft 8 projects from the traveling clutch shaft 13, one projecting portion is journalled between a bearing wall 1b of a front transmission casing 1 and a front bearing plate 4 for covering an opening at the front end of the wall 1b, and a selecting device A including a forward and rearward movement switching clutch B, as an embodiment of an auxiliary speed change device, is disposed at this projecting portion. At the front bearing plate 4 is formed an oil relaying unit 4a in which an oil passage for the forward and rearward movement switching clutch B is bored, so that an oil passage bored in a thick portion 1d of the outer wall connects through a hydraulic control valve unit 35 attached to the outer wall of the front transmission casing 1 with the oil passage of oil relaying unit 4a without need of piping. Meanwhile, a PTO clutch 9 is coaxially disposed with the input shaft 8 sequentially to the projection thereof, between the input shaft 8 and the PTO clutch shaft 9 is disposed a PTO assembly of combination of a hydraulic PTO clutch D and hydraulic PTO brake E, an annular groove 53c is formed on the outer peripheral surface, a rear surface portion of the drum 53 is rotatably mounted to a bearing wall 2a of the rear transmission casing 2, and abutting portion 53e is formed on the inner periphery of the brake drum 53 and made possible to abut against a stopper pin 61 projecting into a recess 2f at the bearing wall 2, thereby allowing the idling of brake drum 53 in a predetermined angle with respect to the bearing wall 2a.

Claims

1. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle, provided with an input shaft, comprising:

a traveling system transmission shaft which is hollow and is disposed coaxially of said input shaft and allows said input shaft to perforate said transmission shaft;

a PTO system transmission shaft disposed coaxially with said input shaft and connected in a driving manner to said input shaft projecting from the interior of said traveling system transmission shaft; and

an auxiliary speed change device constructed between said input shaft and said traveling system transmission shaft.

2. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 1, wherein said input shaft is journalled to a bearing plate for closing an opening of a housing and said auxiliary speed change device can be built in said housing through said opening in a state where said auxiliary speed change device is temporarily mounted to a bearing plate.

3. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 2, wherein said auxiliary speed change device includes:

an intermediate shaft which extends in parallel to said input shaft and said traveling system transmission shaft, said intermediate shaft being supported at one end to a bearing wall and at another end to said bearing plate,

a first transmission system directly transmittable from said input shaft to said traveling system transmission shaft, and

a second transmission system transmittable from said input shaft to said traveling system transmission shaft through said intermediate shaft, so that said first transmission system or said second transmission system is made selectable.

4. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 3, wherein said second transmission system has an idle gear supported to said bearing plate so as to rotate said traveling system transmission shaft reversely to said input shaft.

5. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 3, which further comprising a hydraulic control valve, wherein said auxiliary speed change device is provided with a hydraulic clutch which can alternatively switch said first or second transmission system in a transmitting state by operating said hydraulic control valve, and in said bearing plate, an oil relaying unit for fluid-communicating between said hydraulic clutch and said hydraulic valve disposed for switching said hydraulic clutch in order to switch said hydraulic clutch.

6. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 4, further comprising a hydraulic control valve, wherein said auxiliary speed change device is provided with a hydraulic clutch which can alternatively switch said first or second transmission system in a transmitting state by operating said hydraulic control valve, and in said bearing plate, an oil relaying unit for fluid-communicating between said hydraulic clutch and said hydraulic valve disposed for switching said hydraulic clutch in order to switch said hydraulic clutch.

7. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 5, wherein said hydraulic clutch is disposed on said input shaft.

8. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 5, wherein

said hydraulic control valve is mounted onto an outer wall of said housing,

and oil passage communicating with said hydraulic control valve is formed in said outer wall, and said housing joints with said bearing plate so that said oil passage communicates with said oil relaying unit.

9. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 6, wherein

said hydraulic control valve is mounted onto an outer wall of said housing,

and oil passage communicating with said hydraulic control valve is formed in said outer wall, and said housing joints with said bearing plate so that said oil passage communicates with said oil relaying unit.

10. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 7, wherein

said hydraulic control valve is mounted onto an outer wall of said housing,

and oil passage communicating with said hydraulic control valve is formed in said outer wall, and said housing joints with said bearing plate so that said oil passage communicates with said oil relaying unit.

11. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 1, wherein

a PTO clutch for on-off power transmission between said input shaft and said PTO system transmission shaft is disposed between said input shaft and said PTO system transmission shaft,

a PTO brake for braking said PTO system transmission shaft in accordance with disengagement of said PTO clutch is provided, said PTO brake comprising;

a drum member disposed around said PTO system transmission shaft and one surface portion of said drum body is mounted to said housing,

braking members retained to said drum member in relation of being axially slidable of said PTO system transmission shaft and non-relatively-rotatable,

braked members, which are brought into press contact with and moved away from said braking members following sliding motion of said braking members, and are fixed to said PTO system transmission shaft;

a first retaining means disposed between said rear surface portion of said drum body and said housing which allows said drum body to relatively-rotate around the axis while restricting movement in the axial direction of said PTO system transmission shaft; and

a second retaining means disposed between said rear surface portion of said drum body and said housing for allowing said drum body to be idle only in a predetermined angle around said axis.

12. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 11, wherein said first retaining means comprises:

an annular groove formed on the peripheral surface of said drum body;

mounting bolts screwably mounted to said housing; and

a flange provided on a head of each of said mounting bolts and perforating into said annular groove.

13. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 11, wherein said second retaining means comprises:

a first projection provided on said housing;

a recess provided on said rear surface portion of said drum body for fitting said first projection into said recess; and

a second projection which axially projects from the inner periphery of said recess and can abut against said first projection.

14. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 12, wherein said second retaining means comprises:

a first projection provided on said housing;

a recess provided on said rear surface portion of said drum body for fitting said first projection into said recess; and

a second projection which axially projects from the inner periphery of said recess and can abut against said first projection.

15. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

between said input shaft and said PTO system transmission shaft is a disposed hydraulic type clutch for on-off power transmission between said input shaft and said PTO system transmission shaft;

between said PTO clutch and said housing is provided a hydraulic type PTO brake for braking said PTO system transmission shaft interlocking with said PTO clutch when disengaged;

said PTO clutch is provided with a piston biased by a spring toward the clutch disengagement side and operated by engagement of clutch against a biasing force of said spring when operating oil is supplied; and

said PTO brake is provided with a piston which is operated to cut the brake by receiving operating oil when said PTO clutch engages and is stopped of supply of operating oil so as to be biased by said spring toward the brake exertion side.

16. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 15, further comprising:

brake members coaxially fixed on said PTO system transmission shaft;

a partition formed on said braked members so as to be approximately perpendicular to said PTO transmission shaft; and

an operating oil chamber for said PTO clutch and an operating oil chamber for said PTO brake juxtaposed axially of said PTO system transmission shaft, wherein

said pistons are contained in said respective operating oil chamber, and

said partition is provided with an oil passage for mutually connecting between both of said operating oil chambers.

17. A transmission mechanism for a working vehicle as set forth in claim 16, which includes an oil relaying unit for supplying operating oil from a hydraulic control valve to said respective operating oil chambers, said oil relaying unit being disposed on the reverse side of said brake members with respect to a bearing journalling therewith said PTO system transmission shaft.