# US 10,480,390 B2 · Work vehicle, and position adjustment method of movable portion of work vehicle

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- Number: US 10,480,390 B2
- Document ID: US10480390B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/533,504
- Filed: 2016-12-28
- Published: 2018-09-20
- Granted: 2019-11-19
- Earliest claimed: 2016-12-28
- Assignees: Komatsu Ltd.
- Applicants: Komatsu Ltd.
- Inventors: Hirofumi Miyamoto
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10480390B2

## CPC

- F01P 5/06: Guiding or ducting air to, or from, ducted fans
- B60K 11/02: with liquid cooling
- B60K 11/04: Arrangement or mounting of radiators, radiator shutters, or radiator blinds
- 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)}
- E02F 9/0833: {Improving access, e.g. for maintenance, steps for improving driver's access, handrails}
- E02F 9/0866: {Engine compartment, e.g. heat exchangers, exhaust filters, cooling devices, silencers, mufflers, position of hydraulic pumps in the engine compartment}
- E02F 9/0891: {Lids or bonnets or doors or details thereof (doors for cabins E02F9/163 takes precedence; for motor vehicles B62D25/10)}
- F01P 5/02: Pumping cooling-air; Arrangements of cooling-air pumps, e.g. fans or blowers
- F04D 19/002: {Axial flow fans}
- F04D 25/04: the pump being fluid-driven {(pumps driven by exhaust gases F02B37/00, F02B39/00; turbochargers F02C6/12)}
- F04D 29/601: {specially adapted for elastic fluid pumps}
- F04D 29/622: {Adjusting the clearances between rotary and stationary parts}
- F04D 29/703: {specially for fans, e.g. fan guards}
- B60Y 2200/417: Articulated frame vehicles
- F01P 2070/50: mounting fans to heat-exchangers
- F01P: COOLING OF MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; COOLING OF INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES (arrangements in connection with cooling of propulsion units in vehicles B60K11/00; heat-transfer, heat-exchange or heat-storage materials C09K5/00; {cooling of gas-turbine engines F02C7/12}; heat exchange in general, radiators F28)
- B60K: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
- E02F: DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING (winning peat E21C49/00)
- F04D: NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS (engine fuel-injection pumps F02M; ion pumps H01J41/12; electrodynamic pumps H02K44/02)
- B60Y: INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO ASPECTS CROSS-CUTTING VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY

## Abstract

A work vehicle includes a blower unit rotatably supported to a vehicle body between a closed position and an open position, and a position adjustment portion configured to adjust a vertical position of the blower unit when the blower unit is at the closed position. The position adjustment portion includes a first plate that is provided on the vehicle body and includes a first through portion vertically penetrating, a second plate that is provided on the blower unit, vertically penetrates, and includes a second through portion communicating with the first through portion from below when the blower unit is at the closed position, and an adjustment bolt that includes a shaft portion inserted into the first through portion and the second through portion.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A work vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle body that includes an opening portion communicating between inside and outside;
a movable portion that is rotatably supported to the vehicle body between a closed position at which the opening portion is closed and an open position at which the opening portion is open; and
a position adjustment portion that adjusts a vertical position of the movable portion when the movable portion is at the closed position, wherein the position adjustment portion includes
a first plate that is provided on the vehicle body and includes a first through portion which vertically penetrates the first plate,
a second plate that is provided on the movable portion, and includes a second through portion which vertically penetrates the second plate and communicates with the first through portion from below when the movable portion is at the closed position, and
an adjustment bolt that includes a shaft portion inserted into the first through portion and the second through portion; and
wherein the vehicle body includes a heat exchange room, wherein the opening portion is formed on a rear side of the heat exchange room, wherein a cooling unit that is provided inside the heat exchange room and has a rear surface facing the rear side is further provided, wherein the movable portion is a blower unit that includes a fan rotationally driven and a shroud covering the fan from an outer peripheral side, wherein the closed position is a position at which the blower unit faces the rear surface of the cooling unit, and wherein the open position is a position at which the blower unit exposes the rear surface of the cooling unit.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The work vehicle according to claim 1,
wherein the second through portion has a female screw on an inner peripheral surface of the second through portion,
wherein the shaft portion includes a male screw on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion, the male screw being capable of being fastened to the female screw, and
wherein the adjustment bolt further includes a head portion which is provided on an upper end of the shaft portion and abuts on an upper surface of the first plate.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The work vehicle according to claim 2,
wherein the first through portion is vertically opened toward a direction in which the movable portion is rotated to the open position.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The work vehicle according to claim 1,
wherein the first through portion has a female screw on an inner peripheral surface of the first through portion,
wherein the shaft portion includes a male screw on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft portion, the male screw being capable of being fastened to the female screw, and
wherein the adjustment bolt further includes a head portion which is provided on a lower end of the shaft portion and abuts on a lower surface of the second plate.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The work vehicle according to claim 4,
wherein the second through portion is vertically opened toward a direction in which the movable portion is rotated to the closed position.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The work vehicle according to claim 1,
wherein the first plate includes a long hole that vertically penetrates and has a horizontal direction as a longitudinal direction,
wherein the position adjustment portion further includes a positioning bolt that fixes the first plate to the vehicle body via the long hole.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The work vehicle according to claim 6,
wherein a longitudinal direction of the long hole is a horizontal direction that intersects a rotation direction of the movable portion.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The work vehicle according to claim 1,
wherein the vehicle body includes a vehicle-side fixation hole that penetrates in the horizontal direction,
wherein the movable portion includes a movable-side through-hole that penetrates in the horizontal direction and corresponds to the vehicle-side fixation hole when the movable portion is at the closed position, and
wherein a fixing bolt fixing the movable portion to the vehicle body via the vehicle-side fixation hole and the movable-side through-hole is further provided.

### Claim 9

A position adjustment method of a movable portion of a work vehicle,
the work vehicle including
a vehicle body that includes an opening portion communicating between inside and outside,
a movable portion that is rotatably supported to the vehicle body between a closed position at which the opening portion is closed and an open position at which the opening portion is open, and
a position adjustment portion that adjusts a vertical position of the movable portion when the movable portion is at the closed position,
wherein the position adjustment portion includes
a first plate that is provided on the vehicle body and includes a first through portion which vertically penetrates the first plate,
a second plate that is provided on the movable portion, and includes a second through portion which vertically penetrates the second plate and communicates with the first through portion from below when the movable portion is at the closed position, and
an adjustment bolt that includes a shaft portion inserted into the first through portion and the second through portion; and
wherein the vehicle body includes a heat exchange room, wherein the opening portion is formed on a rear side of the heat exchange room, wherein a cooling unit that is provided inside the heat exchange room and has a rear surface facing the rear side is further provided, wherein the movable portion is a blower unit that includes a fan rotationally driven and a shroud covering the fan from an outer peripheral side, wherein the closed position is a position at which the blower unit faces the rear surface of the cooling unit, and wherein the open position is a position at which the blower unit exposes the rear surface of the cooling unit, and
wherein the method comprises:
a positioning process of coinciding a horizontal position of the second through portion with a horizontal position of the first through portion by rotating the movable portion; and
a lifting process of allowing the second plate to be close to the first plate by inserting the shaft portion of the adjustment bolt into the first through portion and the second through portion and fastening the adjustment bolt after the positioning process.

### Claim 10 (depends on 2)

The work vehicle according to claim 2,
wherein the first plate includes a long hole that vertically penetrates and has a horizontal direction as a longitudinal direction,
wherein the position adjustment portion further includes a positioning bolt that fixes the first plate to the vehicle body via the long hole.

### Claim 11 (depends on 3)

The work vehicle according to claim 3,
wherein the first plate includes a long hole that vertically penetrates and has a horizontal direction as a longitudinal direction,
wherein the position adjustment portion further includes a positioning bolt that fixes the first plate to the vehicle body via the long hole.

### Claim 12 (depends on 4)

The work vehicle according to claim 4,
wherein the first plate includes a long hole that vertically penetrates and has a horizontal direction as a longitudinal direction,
wherein the position adjustment portion further includes a positioning bolt that fixes the first plate to the vehicle body via the long hole.

### Claim 13 (depends on 5)

The work vehicle according to claim 5,
wherein the first plate includes a long hole that vertically penetrates and has a horizontal direction as a longitudinal direction,
wherein the position adjustment portion further includes a positioning bolt that fixes the first plate to the vehicle body via the long hole.

### Claim 14 (depends on 2)

The work vehicle according to claim 2,
wherein the vehicle body includes a vehicle-side fixation hole that penetrates in the horizontal direction,
wherein the movable portion includes a movable-side through-hole that penetrates in the horizontal direction and corresponds to the vehicle-side fixation hole when the movable portion is at the closed position, and
wherein a fixing bolt fixing the movable portion to the vehicle body via the vehicle-side fixation hole and the movable-side through-hole is further provided.

### Claim 15 (depends on 3)

The work vehicle according to claim 3,
wherein the vehicle body includes a vehicle-side fixation hole that penetrates in the horizontal direction,
wherein the movable portion includes a movable-side through-hole that penetrates in the horizontal direction and corresponds to the vehicle-side fixation hole when the movable portion is at the closed position, and
wherein a fixing bolt fixing the movable portion to the vehicle body via the vehicle-side fixation hole and the movable-side through-hole is further provided.

### Claim 16 (depends on 4)

The work vehicle according to claim 4,
wherein the vehicle body includes a vehicle-side fixation hole that penetrates in the horizontal direction,
wherein the movable portion includes a movable-side through-hole that penetrates in the horizontal direction and corresponds to the vehicle-side fixation hole when the movable portion is at the closed position, and
wherein a fixing bolt fixing the movable portion to the vehicle body via the vehicle-side fixation hole and the movable-side through-hole is further provided.