Electric tractor
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsGo Takaki, Shinichi Kawabata
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Abstract
An electric tractor includes an electric motor to drive a traveling device; a battery; an inverter to supply electric power from the battery to the electric motor; a vehicle body frame located below a hood located forward of an operator's seat to cover the battery; and a support frame attached to the vehicle body frame, wherein the support frame includes a battery support to support the battery located at a position above the electric motor and above the vehicle body frame, and an inverter support to support the inverter located at a position between the battery support and the vehicle body frame and forward of the electric motor.
Claims7
An electric tractor comprising:
- an operator portion including an operator's seat and a steering portion provided in the vicinity of the operator's seat;
- a vehicle body on which the operator portion is provided;
- a traveling device to support the vehicle body such that the traveling device is allowed to travel;
- an electric motor to drive the traveling device;
- a battery to supply electric power to the electric motor;
- a hood to cover the battery;
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- a charging connector for charging of the battery, wherein
- the steering portion includes an operation member including a steering handle and a cover body located rearward of the hood to cover a lower portion of the operation member,
- the steering handle is located at an upper portion of a rear surface of the cover body and is forward of the operator's seat,
- the charging connector is located outside the cover body to be exposed outward of the steering portion and includes a connector body including a connection terminal portion which is a portion to which a power supplying connector is connected, the connector body being located at a side of the cover body such that the connection terminal portion is oriented outward in a vehicle width direction of the electric tractor;
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- the connector body is located between the steering handle and the hood, and is located at an outer surface of the cover body that faces outward in the vehicle width direction such that the connector body is located outward in the vehicle width direction of an outermost portion of the steering handle in the vehicle width direction.
An electric tractor comprising:
- an operator portion including an operator's seat and a steering portion provided in the vicinity of the operator's seat;
- a vehicle body on which the operator portion is provided;
- a traveling device to support the vehicle body such that the traveling device is allowed to travel;
- an electric motor to drive the traveling device;
- a battery to supply electric power to the electric motor;
- a charging connector for charging of the battery;
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- a connector bracket to which the charging connector is attached, wherein
- the steering portion includes an operation member and a cover body to cover a lower portion of the operation member,
- the charging connector is located outside the cover body to be exposed outward of the steering portion, and
- the connector bracket includes a connector mounting portion to which the charging connector is attached outside a front cover that function as the cover body, and a mounting wall portion attached to a mounting portion provided inside of the front cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.