Electric work vehicle and base thereof

• US 8,727,055 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2012
• Issued: 05/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Inventors: Matsumura, Yukinori, Takano, Yoshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Walters, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRIGGS, JAMES J
• Application Number:
  US13/982,615
• Publication Number:
  US 20130299255A1
• Time in Patent Office: 795 Days
• Field of Search: 180 681- 685, 180/54.1, 180/69.5, 180/69.6
• US Class Current: 180/68.5
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 1/04 of the electric storage means for propulsion exchanging batteries for electric propulsion of vehicles B60L53/80; for auxiliary purposes only B60R16/04; supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles B60S5/06
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2200/412 Excavators
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 21/186 for building site vehicles or multi-purpose tractors tracked vehicles B62D55/10; tractors in general B62D49/00; building site vehicles in general E02F; lift-trucks B66F
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/2054 Load carrying floors for commercial vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/32 working downwardly and towards the machine, e.g. with backhoes
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/0858 Arrangement of component parts installed on superstructures not otherwise provided for, e.g. electric components, fenders, air-conditioning units E02F9/16, E02F9/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/207 of the type electric propulsion units, e.g. electric motors or generators

Abstract

A base frame for an electric work vehicle equipped with a battery-driven electric motor includes a base plate, a plurality of device installation compartment plates and a battery accommodation compartment plate. The device installation compartment plates are fixed onto the base plate, and form a plurality of installation regions for mounting a variety of devices of the vehicle onto the base plate. The battery accommodation compartment plate is fixed onto the base plate, and forms a region for accommodating a plurality of batteries in an inside thereof.

Claims

1. A base frame for an electric work vehicle equipped with a battery-driven electric motor, the base frame comprising:

a base plate;

a plurality of device installation compartment plates fixed onto the base plate, the device installation compartment plates forming a plurality of installation regions for mounting a variety of devices of the vehicle onto the base plate; and

a battery accommodation compartment plate fixed onto the base plate, the battery accommodation compartment plate forming a region for accommodating a plurality of batteries in an inside thereof.

2. The base frame for an electric work vehicle recited in claim 1, wherein

the battery accommodation compartment plate is disposed on a rear end portion of the base plate in a vehicle back-and-forth direction, the battery accommodation compartment plate at least having front, rear, right and left plates enclosing the region for accommodating the plurality of batteries.

3. The base frame for an electric work vehicle recited in claim 2, wherein

the device installation compartment plates include at least one vertical partition plate extending on the base plate from a front portion of the base plate to the rear end portion of the base plate through the battery accommodation region formed by the battery accommodation compartment plate in the vehicle back-and-forth direction.

4. The base frame for an electric work vehicle recited in claim 3, wherein

the battery accommodation region accommodates a plurality of battery cases in a stacked state, each of the battery cases accommodating a plurality of batteries, and

the battery accommodation compartment plate is provided with a fixation bracket to which a pillar for supporting the plurality of battery cases is fixed, the fixation bracket being mounted onto a rear surface of the rear plate of the battery accommodation compartment plate.

5. The base frame for an electric work vehicle recited in claim 4, wherein

the battery accommodation compartment plate has at least one partition plate disposed within the battery accommodation region enclosed by the front, rear, right and left plates.

6. The base frame for an electric work vehicle recited in claim 5, wherein

the at least one partition plate is a portion of the vertical partition plate, the portion passing through the battery accommodation region.

7. The base frame for an electric work vehicle recited in claim 4, wherein

the at least one vertical partition plate is disposed in a position corresponding to the fixation bracket in a vehicle width direction.

8. The base frame for an electric work vehicle recited in claim 3, wherein

the base plate is configured and arranged to revolve about a revolving center and forms a part of an upper revolving unit of an excavator,

the base plate is provided with a working machine support bracket to which a working machine of the work vehicle is attached, the working machine support bracket being mounted onto a front end portion of the base plate, and

the vertical partition plate continuously extends from the working machine support bracket to the rear end portion of the base frame.

9. The base frame for an electric work vehicle recited in claim 1, wherein

the device installation compartment plates include at least one horizontal partition plate extending on the base frame in a vehicle right-and-left direction.

10. An electric work vehicle comprising:

a vehicle body frame including the base frame recited in claim 1;

a travelling mechanism connected to the vehicle body frame;

a working machine unit including a working machine and a working machine drive part configured and arranged to drive the working machine;

an electric motor configured and arranged to drive the travelling mechanism and the working machine unit; and

a power source unit including the plurality of batteries, the power source unit configured and arranged to supply electric power to the electric motor.

11. The base frame for an electric work vehicle recited in claim 2, wherein

the device installation compartment plates include at least one vertical partition plate that connects the front plate and the rear plate.