BATTERY TYPE FORKLIFT

• US 20140238780A1
• Filed: 03/13/2012
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Inventors: Nishiyama, Kouji, Kurihara, Kazuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,162,858 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 187/222
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/04 Arrangement of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/0754 Battery removal arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/07545 Overhead guards
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/07572 Propulsion arrangements

Abstract

A battery type forklift which is driven with power of a battery mounted on a vehicle body, includes: a fork arranged at a front part of the vehicle body; and a counter weight arranged at a rear part of the vehicle body, wherein the battery is mounted on the vehicle body in a state of being capable of being removed to a rear side of the vehicle body, and the counter weight comprises a guide unit which prevents sway of the battery in a right-left direction of the vehicle body when removing the battery and which guides movement of the battery along a front-rear direction of the vehicle body.

Claims

1. A battery type forklift which is driven with power of a battery mounted on a vehicle body, comprising:

a fork arranged at a front part of the vehicle body; and

a counter weight arranged at a rear part of the vehicle body,

wherein the battery is mounted on the vehicle body in a state of being capable of being removed to a rear side of the vehicle body, and

the counter weight comprises a guide unit which prevents sway of the battery in a right-left direction of the vehicle body when removing the battery and which guides movement of the battery along a front-rear direction of the vehicle body.

2. The battery type forklift according to claim 1,

wherein post-like members protruded upward are arranged at both right and left sides of the counter weight, and

the guide unit being the post-like members guides movement of the battery along the front-rear direction of the vehicle body between the post-like members.

3. The battery type forklift according to claim 2,

wherein the post-like members are formed by casting integrally with the counter weight.

4. The battery type forklift according to claim 2,

wherein the counter weight comprises an abutting portion which restricts movement of the battery to a rear side of the vehicle body when the battery is mounted on the vehicle body.

5. The battery type forklift according to claim 2,

wherein a front end face of the post-like member is located at the front side from a rear end face of the battery in a state that the battery is mounted on the vehicle body.