Cab frame structure for construction machine

• US 8,876,196 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2011
• Issued: 11/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Press Kogyo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Press Kogyo Company Limited
• Inventors: Kondo, Shigeki, Sato, Masanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Kiran B
• Application Number:
  US13/811,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20130119708A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,202 Days
• Field of Search: 296/190.08, 296/190.01, 296/190.03, 296/190.04, 296/190.09, 296/190.11, 296/203.01, 296/203.02, 296/205, 296/187.09, 296/190.06, 180/89.12, 180/898.3
• US Class Current: 296/190.08
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 1/004 Mounting of windows
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/16 Cabins, platforms, or the like, for drivers for motor vehicles in general B62D33/06, for cranes B66C13/54
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/163 Structures to protect drivers, e.g. cabins, doors for cabins; Falling object protection structure [FOPS]; Roll over protection structure [ROPS] for handrails mounted on cabins E02F9/0833 takes precedence; for vehicles in general B60R21/11, B60R21/13, for fork-lift trucks B66F9/07545

Abstract

Object

In a cab frame structure for a construction machine in which a front pillar and a roof pillar are configured by one tubular material, the cab frame structure for the construction machine in which an attachment position of a front header can be reversibly raised and an upward viewing angle of a driver is enlarged is provided.

Solving Means

A front pillar 1 and a roof pillar 2, which constitute a cab frame of the construction machine, are configured by one tubular material 9 having a curved portion 10 at a joint between them, and by making a curvature radius of a curve outer side 10a in the curved portion 10 smaller than a curvature radius of a curve inner side 10b, a space 12 to raise an accommodation position of a top end 7x of a front window unit 7 is formed in the curved portion 10. A front header 4 is arranged at the position of the top end 7x of the front window unit 7 accommodated in the space 12. With this configuration, the attachment of the front header 4 can be reversibly raised, and an upward viewing angle θ2 of a driver can be expanded.

Claims

1. A cab frame structure for a construction machine, characterized in that

the cab frame includes one continuous tubular material configured to have a front pillar portion and a roof pillar portion joined together by a curved portion;

wherein the curved portion is configured to include a curve outer side having one curvature radius and a curve inner side having other curvature radius, the one curvature radius of the curve outer side in said curved portion in said tubular material being smaller than the other curvature radius of the curve inner side in said tubular material,

wherein the curved portion is further configured to have a space to accommodate the raised position of a top end of a front window unit supported by said front portion; and

the cab frame further includes a front header, which is positioned at the top end of said front window unit accommodated in said space, arranged in the curve outer side in said curved portion.

2. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said tubular material has surplus portions in a circumferential direction at a portion of the front pillar and a portion of the roof pillar and has a protrusion protruded to the curve outer side in said curved portion, and a section is gradually changed along a longitudinal direction.

3. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein in said tubular material, a circumferential length of the portion of said front pillar, a circumferential length of the portion of said roof pillar and a circumferential length of said curved portion are equal.

4. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein in said tubular material, a circumferential length of the portion of said front pillar, a circumferential length of the portion of said roof pillar and a circumferential length of said curved portion are equal.

5. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said front window unit has a member to be guided which is engaged with a guide rail placed in said tubular material, and can be moved along said tubular material.

6. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein said front window unit has a member to be guided which is engaged with a guide rail placed in said tubular material, and can be moved along said tubular material.

7. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 3, wherein said front window unit has a member to be guided which is engaged with a guide rail placed in said tubular material, and can be moved along said tubular material.

8. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said front window unit has a member to be guided which is engaged with a guide rail placed in said tubular material, and can be moved along said tubular material.

9. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 6, wherein said guide rail is formed in said surplus portion.

10. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said front window unit has a flat glass.

11. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 2, wherein said front window unit has a flat glass.

12. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 3, wherein said front window unit has a flat glass.

13. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said front window unit has a flat glass.

14. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 5, wherein said front window unit has a flat glass.

15. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 6, wherein said front window unit has a flat glass.

16. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 7, wherein said front window unit has a flat glass.

17. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 8, wherein said front window unit has a flat glass.

18. The cab frame structure for the construction machine as claimed in claim 9, wherein said front window unit has a flat glass.