Body structure for dump truck

• US 9,266,457 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2011
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kitaguchi, Atsushi, Satou, Takayuki, Ishihara, Kazunori, Kita, Yasuki, Ikema, Takehito, Yasuda, Tomohiko, Sasaki, Takashi, Nabeshima, Yoshifumi, Ooshima, Hitomi
• Primary Examiner(s): Dayoan, Glenn
• Assistant Examiner(s): Westbrook, Sunsurraye
• Application Number:
  US14/348,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20140232134A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,608 Days
• Field of Search: 296/183.2, 296/183.1, 296/39.3, 296/64, 296/26.11, 298/1.H, 298/1.R, 298/17.R, 298/38, 298/10, 298/14, 298/12, 414/809, 414/528, 414/393, 414/397, 410/130
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 1/286 Loading buckets

Abstract

Disclosed is a body structure for a dump truck (1) having a body frame (3). The body structure is provided with hinge pins (5) to be located toward a rear of the body frame, a body (2A) to be tiltably disposed on the body frame via the hinge pins and to be adapted to load payload (9), and stiffening members arranged on outer surfaces of the body. The body is constructed at least of a floor board (62a), a front board (62b), side boards (62c), and a canopy (62d). The stiffening members include side-board stiffeners (61) connecting upper portions of elongated joints between the side boards and the front board to portions of elongated joints between the side boards and the floor board. The latter portions are located rearward of positions laterally corresponding to a barycentric position (G) of the payload (9) in a longitudinal direction of the body.

Claims

1. A body structure for a dump truck, said body structure being mounted on a body frame of the dump truck, the body structure comprising:

hinge pins located toward a rear of the body frame,

a body tiltably disposed on the body frame via the hinge pins and adapted to load payload thereon,

stiffening members arranged on outer surfaces of the body to stiffen the body, said body being constructed at least of a floor board forming a floor wall,

a front board joined to a front side of the floor board to form a front wall,

side boards joined to opposite sides of the floor board, respectively, to form side walls, and

a canopy joined to an upper part of the front board, wherein the stiffening members comprise;

a pair of liner side-board stiffeners which connect upper portions of elongated joints between the side boards and the front board to portions of elongated joints between the side boards and the floor board, the latter portions being located rearward of positions laterally corresponding to a barycentric position of the payload on the body in a longitudinal direction of the body, at opposite end portions thereof, and continuously formed so as to pass around central parts of the side boards from one side of the opposite end portions thereof toward other sides of the opposite end portions, to stiffen the side boards, respectively, and

side-board center stiffeners which extend on the central parts of the side boards respectively, from a front of the body toward a rear of the body to stiffen the side boards, wherein

the sideboard stiffeners are connected to rear end portions of the side-board center stiffeners, respectively, and

the side-board center stiffeners are formed so as to be located more frontward than the sideboard stiffeners.

2. The body structure according to claim 1, wherein:

the side-board stiffeners are connected to the elongated joints between the side boards and the floor board at portions located between the positions laterally corresponding to the barycentric position of the payload and the hinge pins in the longitudinal direction of the body, respectively.

3. The body structure according to claim 2, wherein:

the stiffening members further comprise canopy stiffeners joined to opposite sides of the canopy to stiffen the canopy, and

the side-board stiffeners are connected to basal end portions of the canopy stiffeners, respectively.

4. The body structure according to claim 2, wherein:

the stiffening members further comprise floor-board stiffeners arranged on the floor board and extending in a lateral direction of the body to stiffen the floor board; and

the side-board stiffeners are connected to corresponding end portions of one of the floor-board stiffeners, respectively, and the one floor-board stiffener extends between the portions located between the positions laterally corresponding to the barycentric position of the payload and the hinge pins in the longitudinal direction of the body.

5. The body structure according to claim 2, wherein:

the stiffening members further comprise canopy stiffeners joined to opposite sides of the canopy, respectively, to stiffen the canopy, and also, floor-board stiffeners arranged on the floor board and extending in a lateral direction of the body to stiffen the floor board; and

the side-board stiffeners are connected to basal end portions of the respective canopy stiffeners and are also connected to corresponding end portions of one of the floor-board stiffeners, respectively, and the one floor-board stiffener extends between the portions located between the positions laterally corresponding to the barycentric position of the payload and the hinge pins in the longitudinal direction of the body.

6. The body structure according to claim 2, wherein:

the stiffening members further comprise a front-board stiffener arranged on a central part of the front board and extending in a lateral direction of the body to stiffen the front board; and

the front-board stiffener is connected at opposite ends portions thereof to front end portions of the side-board center stiffeners, respectively.

7. The body structure according to claim 2, wherein:

the stiffening members further comprise ribs arranged on and along upper edge portions of the side boards, respectively; and

the side-board stiffeners are connected at front end portions thereof to front end portions of the corresponding ribs and at rear end portions thereof to corresponding end portions of one of the floor-board stiffeners via connecting members, respectively, and the one floor-board stiffener extends between the portions located between the positions laterally corresponding to the barycentric position of the payload and the hinge pins in the longitudinal direction of the body.

8. The body structure according to claim 2, wherein:

the stiffening members further comprise ribs arranged on and along upper edge portions of the side boards, respectively, and canopy stiffeners joined to opposite sides of the canopy to stiffen the canopy;

the canopy stiffeners are linear at basal end portions thereof; and

the side boards have a height such that the basal end portions of the canopy stiffeners are integrally connected to the ribs, respectively.

9. The body structure according to claim 2, wherein:

the stiffening members further comprise a first rib arranged on the canopy and extending in a lateral direction of the body to reinforce the canopy, and second ribs arranged on the canopy and extending in a longitudinal direction of the body to reinforce the canopy; and

front end portions of the second ribs as viewed in the longitudinal direction of the body are connected to the first rib extending in the lateral direction of the body.

10. The body structure according to claim 2, wherein:

the stiffening members further comprise ribs arranged on the front board and extending in a vertical direction of the body to reinforce the front board, and frames arranged on the floor board, extending in a longitudinal direction of the body and formed with a width smaller than the ribs; and

lower end portions of the ribs are connected to the frames, respectively, via corresponding tapered connecting members formed with a width that becomes smaller downwardly.