Working machine

• US 8,820,466 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2013
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kubota Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kubota Corporation
• Inventors: Fujita, Yuji, Date, Masamitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): Walters, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRIGGS, JAMES J
• Application Number:
  US13/959,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20140034408A1
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• Field of Search: 180 651- 6531, 180/291, 903902-907
• US Class Current: 180/291
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/0866 Engine compartment, e.g. heat exchangers, exhaust filters, cooling devices, silencers, mufflers, position of hydraulic pumps in the engine compartment
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/0891 Lids or bonnets or doors or details thereof doors for cabins E02F9/163 takes precedence; for motor vehicles B62D25/10
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/20 Drives; Control devices gearings in general F16H; controlling in general G05; electric multi-motor drives H02K, H02P

Abstract

To provide a working machine of which a compressor and an alternator are accessible from a back side of an engine hood. On a machine body, a motor is mounted such that a shaft center of an output shaft thereof coincides with a lateral direction of the machine body; an engine hood covering the motor is provided with an open/close cover that can open the inside of the engine hood backward; on a lateral surface of the motor on an output shaft side, a compressor bracket attached with a compressor at a position behind the output shaft of the motor is attached and fixed; and an alternator that is positioned behind the output shaft of the motor and vertically displaced in position from the compressor is provided.

Claims

1. A working machine wherein:

a motor mounted on a machine body such that a shaft center of an output shaft thereof coincides with a lateral direction of the machine body;

an engine hood covering the motor is provided with an open/close cover that can open an inside of the engine hood backward;

a compressor bracket attached on a lateral surface of the motor on an output shaft side, with a compressor at a position behind the output shaft of the motor is attached and fixed; and

an alternator positioned behind the output shaft of the motor and vertically displaced in position from the compressor,

wherein the compressor bracket is provided with a tension pulley that provides tension to a compressor belt that transmits power of the motor to the compressor, and

wherein the compressor bracket is provided with a belt tension adjusting mechanism that makes an adjustment of the tension of the compressor belt from a back side of the engine hood, the tension being provided by the tension pulley.

2. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein the compressor bracket is provided with an alternator stay to which the alternator is attached.

5. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein:

the compressor bracket has a longitudinally slidably supported pulley stay, a front part of the pulley stay is rotatably provided with the tension pulley, and by moving the pulley stay forward, the tension pulley can press the compressor belt in a tensioning direction; and

the belt tension adjusting mechanism has an adjusting bolt arranged behind the pulley stay, the adjusting bolt is supported by the compressor bracket so as to be longitudinally screwable forward and backward, and can be rotatably operated from the back side of the engine hood, and by screwing the adjusting bolt forward, the pulley stay can be moved forward.

6. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein the machine body is mounted on the traveling body so as to be revolvable around a vertical pivot center, on a front side of the machine body, a front operating unit having a boom, an arm, and a bucket is equipped, and on a back part of the machine body, the motor is mounted.

3. A working machine wherein:

a motor mounted on a machine body such that a shaft center of an output shaft thereof coincides with a lateral direction of the machine body;

an engine hood covering the motor is provided with an open/close cover that can open an inside of the engine hood backward;

a compressor bracket attached on a lateral surface of the motor on an output shaft side, with a compressor at a position behind the output shaft of the motor is attached and fixed; and

an alternator positioned behind the output shaft of the motor and vertically displaced in position from the compressor,

wherein the compressor bracket is provided with an alternator stay to which the alternator is attached,

wherein the alternator is arranged below and behind the compressor,

wherein a lower end side of the alternator is pivotally supported by an alternator bracket attached and fixed on the lateral surface of the motor on the output shaft side,

wherein an upper end side of the alternator is fixed to the alternator stay so as to be longitudinally movable around a pivotally supporting part on the lower end side of the alternator, and

wherein by swinging the alternator backward, tension is provided to an alternator belt that transmits power of the motor to the alternator.

4. A working machine, comprising:

a motor mounted on a machine body such that a shaft center of an output shaft thereof coincides with a lateral direction of the machine body;

an engine hood covering the motor is provided with an open/close cover that can open an inside of the engine hood backward;

a compressor bracket attached on a lateral surface of the motor on an output shaft side, with a compressor at a position behind the output shaft of the motor is attached and fixed;

an alternator positioned behind the output shaft of the motor and vertically displaced in position from the compressor;

the output shaft is provided in a lower part of the engine;

above an output pulley integrally rotatably attached to the output shaft, a fan pulley is arranged;

on a back side and an upper side of the fan pulley, the compressor is arranged, and also on a back side and a lower side of the compressor, the alternator is arranged;

on a front side of the fan pulley, a tension pulley is arranged;

the compressor and the alternator are respectively provided with input pulleys; and

over the output pulley, the fan pulley, and the input pulley of the alternator, an alternator belt is wound, and also over the output pulley, the tension pulley, and the input pulley of the compressor, a compressor belt is wound.