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US 2023/0415688 A1Published application
Work vehicle
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorShunsuke SONODA
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Abstract
A work vehicle includes: an engine bonnet in a front section of a body of the work vehicle and forming an engine compartment, the engine bonnet being swingably openable and closable in an up-down direction of the body with an opening and closing axis extending in a width direction of the body in a rear section of the engine bonnet as a swing fulcrum; and a front guard covering a front portion of the engine bonnet and including a lower guard section fixedly supported by a body frame and an upper guard section supported by the lower guard section.
Claims13
A work vehicle comprising:
- an engine bonnet in a front section of a body of the work vehicle and forming an engine compartment, the engine bonnet being swingably openable and closable in an up-down direction of the body with an opening and closing axis extending in a width direction of the body in a rear section of the engine bonnet as a swing fulcrum;
- and
- a front guard covering a front portion of the engine bonnet and including a lower guard section fixedly supported by a body frame and an upper guard section supported by the lower guard section, wherein:
- the upper guard section is coupled to the lower guard section via a coupling axis lying in the width direction of the body, and is supported in such a manner as to be changeable between a (i) closed posture, in which the upper guard section covers the front portion, and (ii) an open posture, in which the upper guard section is swung on a forward side of the body with the coupling shaft as the swing fulcrum,
- the coupling axis is forward of the engine bonnet, and
- the upper guard section includes:
- a laterally-oriented section forward of the engine bonnet and extending in the width direction of the body;
- and
- longitudinally-oriented sections extending rearward in a front-rear direction of the body respectively from left and right ends of the laterally-oriented section while the upper guard section is in the closed posture.
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