Working machine

• US 9,243,383 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2014
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Company Limited (Kobe Steel Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Company Limited (Kobe Steel Limited)
• Inventors: Ushiroguchi, Asuka, Inada, Yusuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Follman, Brodie
• Assistant Examiner(s): CASSIDY, BRIAN L
• Application Number:
  US14/484,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20150075895A1
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 180/309, 180/68.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 13/04 concerning exhaust collecting exhaust gases with central suction systems not forming part of vehicles, e.g. in workshops or tunnels B08B15/002, otherwise along carriageways E01C1/005; extensions for melting snow on roads E01H5/00, E01H6/00; exhaust or silencing apparatus for internal combustion engines per se F01N; pipes, joints or supports therefor F16L
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2200/412 Excavators
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2306/09 Reducing noise
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2410/114 Shields, e.g. for heat protection
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/0808 Improving mounting or assembling, e.g. frame elements, disposition of all the components on the superstructures for disposition of specific components, E02F9/0858
• 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: F01N 13/082 of tailpipe, e.g. with means for mixing air with exhaust for exhaust cooling, dilution or evacuation F01N13/20 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 13/1805 Fixing exhaust manifolds, exhaust pipes or pipe sections to each other, to engine or to vehicle body pipe joints in general F16L; fixing auxiliaries in motor vehicles in general B60K
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2470/02 Tubes being perforated
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2590/08 for heavy duty applications, e.g. trucks, buses, tractors, locomotives

Abstract

An upper slewing body includes a rear wall portion covering an engine room from a rear side, a bottom plate disposed so as to cover the engine room from a lower side and having an exhaust opening, and a pair of vertical plates standing upright on the bottom plate. A rear end portion of the vertical plate has proximate rear end surfaces disposed adjacent to the rear wall portion and a cutout portion formed by recessing the rear end surface of the vertical plate toward the front side with respect to the proximate rear end surfaces. A distal end portion of a tail pipe is introduced between the vertical plates and through the cutout portion from the outer position of the vertical plates and extends along the exhaust opening in a state where the distal end portion of the tail pipe faces the exhaust opening.

Claims

1. A working machine comprising:

a lower traveling body; and

an upper slewing body provided on the lower traveling body so as to be able to slew and the upper slewing body being configured to perform a working operation according to an operation of an operator, wherein the upper slewing body includes;

an engine provided in a rear portion of the upper slewing body;

an exhaust pipe having a base end portion connected to the engine and a distal end portion for discharging exhaust gas, the exhaust pipe extending from the base end portion to the distal end portion in order to guide exhaust gas;

a rear wall portion covering an engine room accommodating the engine from a rear side;

a floor wall portion disposed so as to cover the engine room from a lower side and the floor wall portion having an exhaust opening that opens the engine room to a lower side; and

a pair of vertical plates standing upright on the floor wall portion and the pair of vertical plates extending in a front-rear direction on a lower side of the engine, the exhaust opening being formed in the floor wall portion at an inner position between the pair of vertical plates, wherein

one of the pair of vertical plates is a pipe-insertion vertical plate, and the pipe-insertion vertical plate includes a rear end portion having a proximate rear end surface disposed adjacent to the rear wall portion so as to prevent the exhaust pipe from passing between the pipe-insertion vertical plate and the rear wall portion and a cutout portion formed by recessing a rear end surface of the pipe-insertion vertical plate toward a front side with respect to the proximate rear end surface,

the exhaust pipe has an outer portion between the base end portion and the distal end portion and an extending portion between the outer portion and the distal end portion, the outer portion of the exhaust pipe lying at an outer position of the pair of vertical plates, the extending potion of the exhaust pipe extending through the cutout portion, and

the distal end portion of the exhaust pipe is disposed at the inner position between the pair of vertical plates, and the distal end portion of the exhaust pipe extends along the exhaust opening in a state of facing the exhaust opening.

2. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein

the upper slewing body further includes a device supporting member for supporting a predetermined device above the cutout portion,

the rear end portion of the pipe-insertion vertical plate has an extension portion, and

the extension portion extends further upward than an upper end of a portion of the pipe-insertion vertical plate located adjacent to a front side of the extension portion, and serves as a bracket that supports the device supporting member.

3. The working machine according to claim 2, wherein

the cutout portion is formed in a range across both the extension portion and a lower portion of the extension portion, in the rear end portion of the pipe-insertion vertical plate, and

a lower end surface of an edge portion of the pipe-insertion vertical plate located adjacent to an upper side of the cutout portion is tilted downward as the lower end surface of the edge portion of the pipe-insertion vertical plate advances toward the front side.

4. The working machine according to claim 2, wherein

the upper slewing body further includes a driver'"'"'s seat provided adjacent to the engine, and

the device supporting member includes a first support portion supporting the engine and a second support portion provided at a position different from the first support portion in the front-rear direction and supporting the driver'"'"'s seat.

5. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein

a weight wall portion configured to function as a counterweight is provided in a lower portion of the rear wall portion,

the upper slewing body further includes a weight supporting member bonded to the floor wall portion in a state of overlapping a portion of the floor wall portion on the rear side of the exhaust opening and the weight supporting member supporting the weight wall portion, and

the rear end portion of the pipe-insertion vertical plate is bonded to the weight supporting member.

6. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein

the upper slewing body has a rear wall attachment portion allowing attachment and detachment of the rear wall portion.

7. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein

the upper slewing body further includes a beam plate standing upright on the floor wall portion on the front side of the exhaust opening and connecting the pair of vertical plates in the lower portion of the engine.

8. A working machine comprising:

a lower traveling body; and

an upper slewing body provided on the lower traveling body, wherein the upper slewing body includes;

an engine provided in the upper slewing body;

an exhaust pipe having a base end portion connected to the engine and a distal end portion for discharging exhaust gas;

a rear wall portion covering an engine room accommodating the engine from a rear side;

a floor wall portion disposed so as to cover the engine room from below, the floor wall portion having an exhaust opening; and

a pair of vertical plates standing upright on the floor wall portion and in a front-rear direction below the engine, wherein a space is provided below the engine, above the floor wall portion and between the pair of vertical plates, and wherein the exhaust opening is formed in the floor wall within said space and between the pair of vertical plates, wherein

the distal end portion of the exhaust pipe is disposed in said space and between the pair of vertical plates.