Work vehicle
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsKohei Ono, Takashi Nagayama
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Abstract
A work vehicle includes travel devices; a battery; a motor; an inverter configured to operate the motor; an operation section including a steering wheel configured to operate the travel devices, and an operator seat; a transmission case housing a transmission for travel; and a transmission shaft, wherein the motor is between a front travel device and a rear travel device in a side view and below the steering wheel, and the motor, the transmission shaft, the transmission, and the travel devices are configured such that motive power from the motor is transmitted to the transmission via the transmission shaft and transmitted from the transmission to the travel devices.
Claims4
A tractor comprising:
- left and right body frames;
- at least one travel device comprising a front travel device;
- a battery;
- an electric motor;
- an inverter configured to operate the motor;
- an operation section comprising an operator seat;
- a transmission case housing a transmission for travel;
- a transmission shaft;
- and
- left and right mounting brackets arranged, respectively, on inner faces of the left and right body frames,
- wherein the electric motor is forward of the front travel device in a side view, and attached to the left and right mounting brackets,
- wherein the inverter is above the electric motor, and
- wherein the electric motor, the transmission shaft, the transmission, and the travel device are configured such that motive power from the electric motor is transmitted to the transmission via the transmission shaft and transmitted from the transmission to the travel device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.