US 2018/0026244 A1Published application

Electric Work Vehicle

AssigneeKubota Corporation

InventorsHirokazu Ito, Kazuo Koike, Yasuhiro Manji

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Abstract

An electric work vehicle includes a battery container provided in a traveling vehicle body and including a guiding unit, and a battery pack removably attached to the battery container and including a guided unit. A pair of rollers are provided in one of the guiding unit and the guided unit, and a pair of engaging portion to be engaged with the rollers are provided in the other of the guiding unit and the guided unit. When the battery pack is loaded or unloaded onto/from the battery container at the loading/unloading position, the rollers engage with the engaging portions, thereby functioning as pivot fulcrums for enabling the battery pack to pivot for loading and unloading.

Claims12

Dependent claims

An electric work vehicle comprising:

a traveling vehicle body;
a battery container provided in the traveling vehicle body;
a battery pack that is removably attached to the battery container;
a guiding unit provided in the battery container, the guiding unit being configured to guide the battery pack between a loading/unloading position at which the battery pack is loaded onto and unloaded from the battery container and a containing position at which the battery pack is contained;
and
a guided unit provided in the battery pack, the guided unit being guided by the guiding unit,
wherein a pair of rollers are provided in one of the guiding unit and the guided unit,
a pair of engaging portions to be engaged with the rollers are provided in the other of the guiding unit and the guided unit, and
when the battery pack is loaded and unloaded at the loading/unloading position, the rollers function as pivot fulcrums for enabling, by engaging with the engaging portions, the battery pack to pivot for loading and unloading relative to the battery container.

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Facts

Application: 15/622,401Filed 14 Jun 2017
Priority: JP 2016-14456422 Jul 2016
Published: 25 Jan 2018
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Classification27 codes

B60K 1/04
Arrangement or mounting of electrical propulsion units: of the electric storage means for propulsion
A01D 34/64
Having cutters rotating about a vertical axis: mounted on a vehicle, e.g. a tractor, or drawn by an animal or a vehicle
A01D 34/78
Driving mechanisms for the cutters: electric
A01D 69/02
Driving mechanisms or parts thereof for harvesters or mowers: electric

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