Engine compartment cover for work machine

• US 7,143,852 B2
• Filed: 04/02/2004
• Issued: 12/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Inventors: Nakada, Kuniaki, Ibuki, Toshio, Yatsuda, Osamu, Ikeda, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): RESTIFO, JEFFREY J
• Application Number:
  US10/815,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20040200649A1
• Time in Patent Office: 977 Days
• Field of Search: 180/68.1, 180/68.2, 180/68.3, 180/69.2, 180/69.22
• US Class Current: 180/69.2
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/10 Bonnets or lids , e.g. for trucks, tractors, busses, work vehicles for truck beds B60J7/1607; for boats B63B19/12; doors arranged at the vehicle rear B60J5/10; inlet covers for vehicle fuel tanks B60K15/05; for protecting non-occupants of a vehicle B60R21/38

Abstract

An engine compartment cover for a work machine includes left and right-hand side covers for covering the sides of an engine, and a hood for covering the top of the engine. The engine compartment cover serves to enclose the engine and demarcate an engine compartment and is capable of suppressing the noise at the operator'"'"'s ear level caused by the engine operating noise passing through the engine compartment cover as far as possible, whereby the level of quietness in the operator cab can be improved. In the engine compartment cover for a work machine, the hood has a box-type structure including an exterior top plate, side plates surrounding the whole perimeter of the exterior top plate, and a bottom plate opposed to the exterior top plate, and air inlet holes are provided in the side plates only, whilst an air outlet hole is provided in the bottom plate only, in such a manner that external air is drawn into the interior of the hood via the air inlet holes and air is introduced into the engine compartment via the air outlet hole.

Claims

1. An engine compartment cover for enclosing an engine of a work machine and for defining an engine compartment, the cover comprising:

a hood for covering a top of the engine; and

left and right side covers extending from said hood to cover left and right sides of the engine, said left and right side covers having air inlet openings arranged such that external air is introduced into the engine compartment,

wherein said hood has a box-type structure and includes

an exterior top plate,

a bottom plate opposed to said exterior top plate,

left and right side plates extending between said exterior top plate and said bottom plate,

front and rear side plates extending between said exterior top plate and said bottom plate,

wherein said hood has air inlet openings provided only in said left and right side plates, and

wherein said hood has an air outlet opening provided only in said bottom plate, said air inlet openings of said hood and said air outlet opening being arranged such that external air is drawn inside said hood via said air inlet openings of said hood and is introduced into the engine compartment via said air outlet opening.

2. The engine compartment cover according to claim 1, wherein a guide duct for guiding air from said air outlet opening to a prescribed location is provided on said bottom plate of said hood.

3. The engine compartment cover according to claim 1, wherein sound insulating members for attenuating a noise radiated externally from the engine compartment are provided on surfaces of components in said hood constituting a passage of air from the outside to the engine compartment.