Electric Grass Cutting Machine
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsHirokazu Ito, Katsuhiko Uemura, Kazuaki Matsuda
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Abstract
In an electric grass cutting machine relating to the present invention, an electric motor for driving a traveling device having a pair of left and right front wheels and a pair of left and right rear wheels and a gear transmission for speed-changing output from the electric motor and transmitting the resultant power to the traveling device are disposed between the left and right rear wheels and arranged one after the other in the front/rear direction at positions laterally of a conveying duct for guiding cut grass pieces from a rear discharge type mower device to a grass collecting container supported to a rear portion of a machine body frame.
Claims7
An electric grass cutting machine comprising:
- a traveling device having a pair of left and right front wheels and a pair of left and right rear wheels;
- a mower device of a rear discharge type disposed under a machine body frame;
- a grass collecting container supported to a rear portion of the machine body frame;
- an electric motor configured to drive the traveling device;
- a gear transmission configured to speed-change an output from the electric motor and to transmit the speed-changed output to the traveling device;
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- a conveying duct extending rearward between the rear wheels and configured to guide cut grass pieces from the mower device to the grass collecting container,
- wherein the conveying duct is disposed at a position on more left or right side than a center position between the left and right rear wheels,
- wherein the electric motor and the gear transmission are disposed between the left and right rear wheels and arranged one after the other in a front/rear direction of a body of the electric grass cutting machine at positions laterally of the conveying duct, and
- wherein the electric motor comprises an output shaft whose axial direction is aligned with the front/rear direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.