Cabin For A Work Vehicle
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsNobushige Ichikawa, Shota Nagasawa, Daisuke Inaba, Hisao Mukai, Aya Motoki, Kenichi Sato
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Abstract
A cabin for a work vehicle comprises: a driver's seat positioned within the cabin; cabin frames including at least a transverse frame located in a rear region of the cabin; a roof supported by at least some of the cabin frames; at least one air-conditioning duct located within the roof an air conditioning unit located rearwardly with respect to a rearward end of a seat portion of the driver's seat and adjacent the transverse frame for conditioning air and for feeding air-conditioned air into the at least one air-conditioning duct.
Claims9
1-21. (canceled)
An air conditioning system for a cabin of a work vehicle comprising:
- a roof (7) of the cabin (1);
- and an air conditioning unit (A) arranged in a rear portion of the roof (7), wherein
- an air conditioning duct (15) comprising separate right and left lateral air conditioning ducts (15B, 15B) is located frontwardly with respect to the air conditioning unit (A) and in right and left lateral regions of the roof (7), which branches from the air conditioning unit (A) and extends to a front side of the roof (7),
- each lateral air conditioning duct (15B) comprises:
- a front terminal which is provided in the front side of the roof (7) and serves a terminal of an air path in the air conditioning duct (15B);
- a bent duct portion on a front end portion thereof, which is bent inward with respect to a vehicle body;
- a first blow-off opening (15a) formed in a front end portion of the bent duct portion, which opening is directed downward for blowing off conditioned air toward a windshield (25) of the cabin (1);
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- a second blow-off opening (15a) formed in a bent portion between the bent duct portion and the remaining portion extending in a front-rear direction, which opening is directed downward,
- the left bent duct portion comprises a linear portion extending diagonally forward right toward a front right side of the vehicle body as a planar view, and
- the right bent duct portion comprises a linear portion extending diagonally forward left toward a front left side of the vehicle body as a planar view.
An air conditioning system for a cabin of a work vehicle comprising:
- a roof (7) of the cabin (1);
- and an air conditioning unit (A) which is arranged in a rear portion of the roof (7) and comprises an evaporator (20), a heater (21) and a fan (23) for supplying air to the evaporator (20) and the heater (21), wherein
- an ambient air intake opening (13B) for air conditioning is provided on only one of lateral sides of the cabin (1), and
- the fan (23) is located on one of the lateral sides opposite to the lateral side on which the ambient air intake opening (13B) is provided.
An air conditioning system for a cabin of a work vehicle, the cabin comprising:
- a driver's seat (12) positioned within the cabin (1);
- a roof (7);
- an air conditioning duct (15) located inside the roof (7);
- an air conditioning unit (A) located inside the roof (7) for conditioning air and for feeding air conditioned air into the air conditioning duct (15);
- and a structural framework (B), wherein
- the air conditioning unit (A) is located rearward of a rearward end of a seat portion of the driver's seat (12),
- the air conditioning unit (A) comprises a ventilating fan (23), an evaporator (20), and a heater (21),
- the ventilating fan (23) being located in one of right and left hand side regions of a vehicle body,
- the evaporator (20) and the heater (21) being located on the other of the right and left hand side regions of the vehicle body such that the evaporator (20) and the heater (21) are positioned next to each other in the fore-and-aft direction and rearward of a front end of the ventilating fan (23),
- the structural frame (B) includes a plurality of vertical frames (2), and an upper frame (6) spanning top end portions of the vertical frames (2) and comprising:
- a transverse frame (6B) located at a rear portion of the roof (7);
- and right and left fore-and-aft frames (6A),
- the transverse frame (6B) extends between the vertical frames (2) flanking the transverse frame (6B) at a height level lower than the fore-and-aft frames (6A), and
- a lower portion of the air conditioning unit (A) is mounted on an upper face of a bracket (16) fixed to the transverse frame (6B) so that the air conditioning unit (A) overlaps the transverse frame (6B) in a planar view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.