Mobile apparatus

• US 9,863,121 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2013
• Issued: 01/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HERR Pluto AG
• Original Assignee: Hudson Bay Holding B.V.
• Inventors: Huissoon, Leendert Wilhelmus Cornelis
• Primary Examiner(s): Shriver, II, James A
• Assistant Examiner(s): CLEMMONS, STEVE M
• Application Number:
  US14/391,592
• Publication Number:
  US 20150101878A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,733 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/10 Bonnets or lids , e.g. for trucks, tractors, busses, work vehicles for truck beds B60J7/1607; for boats B63B19/12; doors arranged at the vehicle rear B60J5/10; inlet covers for vehicle fuel tanks B60K15/05; for protecting non-occupants of a vehicle B60R21/38
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 33/0617 for tractors or off-the-road vehicles protective devices for drivers in case of overturning of tractors B60R21/131
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 33/067 tiltable
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/325 Backhoes of the miniature type
• 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: E02F 9/0883 Tanks, e.g. oil tank, urea tank, fuel tank for vehicles in general B60K15/00
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/0891 Lids or bonnets or doors or details thereof doors for cabins E02F9/163 takes precedence; for motor vehicles B62D25/10
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/166 movable, tiltable or pivoting, e.g. movable seats, dampening arrangements of cabins seats for vehicles in general B60N2/00

Abstract

Disclosed is a mobile apparatus, including a frame, and operating arm connected to the frame, a cab with one or more cab seats, drive means configured to drive the mobile apparatus and/or the operating arm, and at least one tank, wherein the at least one tank is positioned under the one or more cab seats.

Claims

1. Mobile apparatus, comprising a frame, an operating arm connected to the frame, a cab with a driver'"'"'s seat and with a rear side lying behind the driver'"'"'s seat as seen in a forward direction of travel of the mobile apparatus, drive means configured to move the mobile apparatus and/or the operating arm, a bonnet movable between an open and a closed position in order to provide access to the drive means, and an upright sub-frame mounted on said frame substantially behind the cab, wherein the bonnet is mounted pivotally via a first and a second pivot point in an area at the rear side of the cab, such that the bonnet is pivotable away from the cab and away from the drive means in upward direction;

wherein the first and second pivot point is provided at said upper part of said rear side of said upright sub-frame;

wherein the upright sub-frame has a left and a right upwardly directed sub-frame top portion and an empty space between the left and right upwardly directed top portions;

said left and a right upwardly directed sub-frame top portion being provided with the first and the second pivot point, respectively;

wherein the bonnet comprises a left and a right upwardly directed bonnet top portion and an empty space between the left and right upwardly directed bonnet top portion; and

wherein the left and right upwardly directed sub-frame top portion is configured to receive the left and right upwardly directed bonnet top portions, respectively, in the closed position of the bonnet; and

wherein the bonnet and the upright sub-frame are configured such that, in the closed position of the bonnet, the empty space is formed between the first and the second pivot point and such that, in the closed position of the bonnet, the rear side of the cab is visible through said empty space.

2. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rear side of the cab rests against the upright sub-frame in the operative position of the cab.

3. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a protective cover is removably arranged obliquely behind and under the drive means as seen in the direction of travel.

4. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cab is mounted for pivoting relative to the frame around a pivot point located on the front side of the cab such that the cab can pivot forward as seen in the direction of travel.

5. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein a pump control for pivoting the cab is provided on the frame on a left or right-hand front side of the cab as seen in the direction of travel.

6. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein one or more socket outlets are arranged under the cab on a side of the frame as seen in the direction of travel.

7. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein removable side covers are arranged on either side of the cab and under the cab.

8. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein electronic components which can be viewed and serviced from the cab are mounted on a front side of the frame on at least one side.

9. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cab is provided with a left-hand and a right-hand door on either side of the cab.

10. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the frame is rotatable relative to a main frame.

11. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the mobile apparatus further comprises a gear ring for the purpose of rotating the frame relative to the main frame, and that a gear ring motor for driving the gear ring is positioned between the first and the second tank.

12. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein the mobile apparatus comprises a rotary joint and the gear ring motor is placed behind the rotary joint as seen in the direction of travel.

13. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile apparatus comprises a valve block configured to control the operating arm, and that the valve block is positioned on a side of the frame, wherein conduits run adjacently of the frame and under a side of the cab.

14. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the mobile apparatus comprises a filter system for the exhaust gases of the drive means, which filter system is positioned on a rear side of the cab as seen in the direction of travel.

15. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the drive means comprise a motor, wherein a rear motor sub-frame is mounted on the frame substantially behind the cab as seen in the direction of travel, on which rear motor sub-frame is mounted the motor.

16. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a contact surface with openings is formed on a front side of the frame as seen in the direction of travel, and that the cab is provided with air channels of an air-conditioning system, which air channels connect to the openings when the cab is folded closed on the frame.

17. Mobile apparatus, comprising a frame rotatingly mounted relative to a main frame, said frame having an upper side, a front side, a rear side, and two lateral sides extending between the front and the rear side, an operating arm connected to the frame, a cab with a driver'"'"'s seat and with a rear side lying behind the driver'"'"'s seat as seen in a forward direction of travel of the mobile apparatus, drive means configured to move the mobile apparatus and/or the operating arm, the cab is provided with a left-hand and a right-hand door on either side of the cab;

wherein the mobile apparatus comprises a valve block configured to control the operating arm, said valve block being positioned on the upper side of the frame, behind the rear side of the cab as seen in a forward direction of travel of the mobile apparatus, wherein conduits connected to the valve block run near one of the two lateral sides of the frame, adjacently of said one lateral side of the frame and under a lower side of the cab, under the left-hand or right-hand door of the cab.

18. Mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 17, wherein the at least one tank comprises a first tank and a second tank, which first and second tank, as seen in a width direction perpendicularly of a forward direction of travel of the mobile apparatus, are arranged mutually adjacently and at a mutual distance on the frame under the one or more cab seats;

wherein the first tank is a tank for hydraulic liquid and that the second tank is a fuel tank.