Utility vehicle
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorHiroki Bessho
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Abstract
A utility vehicle includes traveling devices 11, 12 that support a travel body on a ground surface; a motive power unit provided on the travel body; a power transmission device 20 that transmits motive power from the motive power unit to the traveling devices 11, 12 as travel power; a speed change operation tool 18 that changes a vehicle speed, which is the speed of the travel power, a vehicle speed limiting operation tool 34 that sets an upper limit of the vehicle speed, and a vehicle speed limiting operation prohibition unit 35 that prohibits operation of the vehicle speed limiting operation tool.
Claims2
A utility vehicle comprising:
- a travel body;
- a travel device configured to support the travel body on a ground surface;
- a motive power unit provided on the travel body;
- a power transmission device configured to transmit motive power from the motive power unit to the travel device as travel power;
- a speed change operation tool configured to change a vehicle speed, which is a speed of the travel power;
- a vehicle speed limiting operation tool comprising a dial-type operation tool configured to set an upper limit of the vehicle speed;
- a vehicle speed limiting operation prohibition unit configured to selectively prohibit operation of the vehicle speed limiting operation tool;
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- a vehicle speed upper limit display section configured to indicate the upper limit set by the vehicle speed limiting operation tool,
- wherein the vehicle speed limiting operation prohibition unit is configured as an attachment and detachment mechanism for attaching and detaching the vehicle speed limiting operation tool to and from a member included in the travel body,
- wherein even after the vehicle speed limiting operation tool is detached from the travel body, the vehicle speed upper limit display section is held in the travel body,
- wherein the vehicle speed upper limit display section has a vehicle speed upper limit indicator mechanically linked to operation of the vehicle speed limiting operation tool, and
- wherein the vehicle speed limiting operation tool, the vehicle speed limiting operation prohibition unit, and the vehicle speed upper limit indicator are integral.
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