Utility vehicle
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsToshiki Ono, Kazuyuki Tashiro
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Abstract
A utility vehicle includes an engine E provided for a body of the utility vehicle; an exhaust section 8 configured to discharge exhaust gas from the engine E; a belt-type continuously variable transmission device 31 configured to receive driving force from the engine E; an exhaust port 40 configured to discharge, from the belt-type continuously variable transmission device 31, cooling air drawn into the belt-type continuously variable transmission device 31 to cool inside of the belt-type continuously variable transmission device 31, the exhaust port 40 being on a first side of the exhaust section 8; and an air guide 41 disposed on a second side of the exhaust section 8 and configured to guide the cooling air from the exhaust port 40 to a cooling target.
Claims7
A utility vehicle, comprising:
- an engine provided for a body of the utility vehicle;
- an exhaust section configured to discharge exhaust gas from the engine;
- a belt-type continuously variable transmission device configured to receive driving force from the engine;
- an exhaust port configured to discharge, from the belt-type continuously variable transmission device, cooling air drawn into the belt-type continuously variable transmission device to cool inside of the belt-type continuously variable transmission device,
- wherein the exhaust port is on a first side of the exhaust section;
- wherein an air guide is disposed on a second side of the exhaust section and configured to guide the cooling air from the exhaust port to a cooling target;
- and
- wherein the air guide comprises a first guide plate and a second guide plate aligned in a front-back direction relative to the body.
A utility vehicle, comprising:
- an engine provided for a body of the utility vehicle;
- an exhaust section configured to discharge exhaust gas from the engine;
- a belt-type continuously variable transmission device configured to receive driving force from the engine;
- an exhaust port configured to discharge, from the belt-type continuously variable transmission device, cooling air drawn into the belt-type continuously variable transmission device to cool inside of the belt-type continuously variable transmission device,
- wherein the exhaust port is on a first side of the exhaust section;
- wherein an air guide is disposed on a second side of the exhaust section and configured to guide the cooling air from the exhaust port to a cooling target;
- wherein the utility vehicle further comprises:
- a vertically swingable carrier box provided for the body,
- wherein the exhaust port is below the carrier box, and
- wherein the air guide comprises:
- a first air guide plate held by the body;
- and
- a second air guide plate held by the carrier box.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.