Work vehicle
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorShunsuke Sonoda
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Abstract
A work vehicle includes: an engine bonnet in a front section of a body of the work vehicle and forming an engine compartment, the engine bonnet being swingably openable and closable in an up-down direction of the body with an opening and closing axis extending in a width direction of the body in a rear section of the engine bonnet as a swing fulcrum; and a front guard covering a front portion of the engine bonnet and including a lower guard section fixedly supported by a body frame and an upper guard section supported by the lower guard section.
Claims12
A work vehicle comprising:
- an engine bonnet in a front section of a body of the work vehicle and forming an engine compartment, the engine bonnet being swingably openable and closable in an up-down direction of the body with an opening and closing axis extending in a width direction of the body in a rear section of the engine bonnet as a swing fulcrum;
- and
- a front guard covering a front portion of the engine bonnet and including a lower guard section fixedly supported by a body frame and an upper guard section supported by the lower guard section, wherein:
- the upper guard section is coupled to the lower guard section via a coupling axis lying in the width direction of the body, and is supported in such a manner as to be changeable between a (i) closed posture, in which the upper guard section covers the front portion, and (ii) an open posture, in which the upper guard section is swung on a forward side of the body with the coupling axis as the swing fulcrum,
- the coupling axis is forward of the engine bonnet,
- the upper guard section includes:
- a laterally-oriented section forward of the engine bonnet and extending in the width direction of the body;
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- longitudinally-oriented sections extending rearward in a front-rear direction of the body respectively from left and right ends of the laterally-oriented section while the upper guard section is in the closed posture, and
- the longitudinally-oriented sections each include a rear section that is lateral of the engine bonnet in a closed state.
A work vehicle comprising:
- an engine bonnet in a front section of a body of the work vehicle and forming an engine compartment, the engine bonnet being swingably openable and closable in an up-down direction of the body with an opening and closing axis extending in a width direction of the body in a rear section of the engine bonnet as a swing fulcrum;
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- a front guard covering a front portion of the engine bonnet and including a lower guard section fixedly supported by a body frame and an upper guard section supported by the lower guard section, wherein:
- the upper guard section is coupled to the lower guard section via a coupling axis lying in the width direction of the body, and is supported in such a manner as to be changeable between a (i) closed posture, in which the upper guard section covers the front portion, and (ii) an open posture, in which the upper guard section is swung on a forward side of the body with the coupling axis as the swing fulcrum,
- the coupling axis is forward of the engine bonnet,
- the upper guard section includes:
- a laterally-oriented section forward of the engine bonnet and extending in the width direction of the body;
- longitudinally-oriented sections extending rearward in a front-rear direction of the body respectively from left and right ends of the laterally-oriented section while the upper guard section is in the closed posture,
- the work vehicle further comprises:
- an engine;
- an exhaust gas treatment device configured to purify exhaust gas emitted from the engine;
- a reducing agent tank in a front section of the engine compartment and configured to store a reducing agent to be supplied to the exhaust gas treatment device;
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- a latching section on the lower guard section and configured to latch onto a refill tank configured to refill the reducing agent tank with the reducing agent.
A work vehicle comprising:
- an engine bonnet in a front section of a body of the work vehicle and forming an engine compartment, the engine bonnet being swingably openable and closable in an up-down direction of the body with an opening and closing axis extending in a width direction of the body in a rear section of the engine bonnet as a swing fulcrum;
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- a front guard covering a front portion of the engine bonnet and including a lower guard section fixedly supported by a body frame and an upper guard section supported by the lower guard section, wherein:
- the upper guard section is coupled to the lower guard section via a coupling axis lying in the width direction of the body, and is supported in such a manner as to be changeable between a (i) closed posture, in which the upper guard section covers the front portion, and (ii) an open posture, in which the upper guard section is swung on a forward side of the body with the coupling axis as the swing fulcrum,
- the coupling axis is forward of the engine bonnet,
- the upper guard section includes:
- a laterally-oriented section forward of the engine bonnet and extending in the width direction of the body;
- and
- longitudinally-oriented sections extending rearward in a front-rear direction of the body respectively from left and right ends of the laterally-oriented section while the upper guard section is in the closed posture, and
- the work vehicle further comprises:
- a driving section in a rear section of the body;
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- a ROPS provided in the driving section and including a post and a top section extending laterally from an upper section of the post, the ROPS being coupled to the body frame in such a manner as to be uprightly swingable, and being supported in such a manner as to be changeable between a (i) use posture, in which the ROPS stands upright, and (ii) a stowed posture, in which the ROPS lies down in such a manner that the post is located laterally of the engine bonnet and the top section is located behind the coupling shaft axis and in front of the engine bonnet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.