Working vehicle

• US 9,694,667 B2
• Filed: 06/16/2016
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Mahindra Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Mahindra Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Komatsu, Yukihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Restifo, Jeffrey J
• Application Number:
  US15/184,316
• Publication Number:
  US 20160375758A1
• Time in Patent Office: 383 Days
• Field of Search: 180 684, 180 686
• 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: B60K 11/04 Arrangement or mounting of radiators, radiator shutters, or radiator blinds B60K11/085 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 13/02 concerning intake
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2001/0411 Arrangement in the front part of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/04 Arrangement of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/0201 Housings; Casings; Frame constructions; Lids; Manufacturing or assembling thereof
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/048 Arranging or mounting on or with respect to engines or vehicle bodies

Abstract

A working vehicle includes a traveling machine body including a bottom plate on which a battery is placed and a radiator bracket for installing a radiator, and a stay. A first end of the stay is fixed at a region close to one side in a width direction of the bottom plate and a second end of the stay is fixed to a vertical frame on the other side in the width direction of the radiator bracket. The stay extends between the first end and the second end by being bent so as to surround one and upper sides of the battery.

Claims

1. A working vehicle, comprising:

an engine;

a radiator;

a battery;

a traveling machine body supported by wheels and configured to support the engine, the radiator, and the battery in a front part thereof, the traveling machine body comprising a bottom plate on which the battery is placed and a radiator bracket for installing the radiator;

an air cleaner located above the battery; and

a stay whose first end is fixed at a region close to one side in a width direction of the bottom plate and whose second end is fixed to a vertical frame on the other side in the width direction of the radiator bracket, the stay being configured to extend between the first end and the second end by being bent so as to surround one and upper sides of the battery, the stay comprising;

a vertical portion extending upward from the first end at the one side in the width direction of the battery; and

a transverse portion extending in the width direction through a gap between the battery and the air cleaner in a vertical direction.

2. The working vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the stay is configured such that the air cleaner is attached to the transverse portion through the bracket above the battery and to define an open space on a side of the second end of the stay as a space enabling the battery to be taken in and out.

3. The working vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the stay is composed of one continuous round pipe and comprises a longitudinal portion extending forward from the second end fixed to the vertical frame, and an oblique portion extending obliquely and connecting an end part of the transverse portion with an end part of the longitudinal portion, and

the transverse portion extending horizontally in the width direction from an upper end part of the vertical portion.

4. A working vehicle, comprising:

an engine;

a radiator;

a battery;

a traveling machine body supported by wheels and configured to support the engine, the radiator, and the battery in a front part thereof, the traveling machine body comprising a bottom plate on which the battery is placed and a radiator bracket for installing the radiator; and

a stay whose first end is fixed at a region close to one side in a width direction of the bottom plate and whose second end is fixed to a vertical frame on the other side in the width direction of the radiator bracket, the stay being configured to extend between the first end and the second end by being bent so as to surround one and upper sides of the battery,

wherein the stay is composed of one continuous round pipe comprising a vertical portion extending upward from the first end fixed to the bottom plate, a longitudinal portion extending forward from the second end fixed to the vertical frame, a transverse portion extending horizontally in the width direction from an upper end part of the vertical portion, and an oblique portion extending obliquely and connecting an end part of the transverse portion with an end part of the longitudinal portion.