Vehicle with rotating cab
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho
InventorsHaruhiko Umeda, Hiroshi Ito, Toshitaka Suketomo
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Abstract
A vehicle which has a driver's compartment being turnable at an angle of 180.degree. between its forwardly facing position and it rearwardly facing position and a transmission having a plurality of solenoid operated directional control valves for speed change of the vehicle. The transmission is controlled by a transmission control device enabling it to be operated under the same operation manner even when the vehicle travels either in the forward direction or in the rearward direction.
Claims4
In a vehicle which is provided therein with a driver's compartment mounted to enable it to be turned at an angle of 180.degree. from its forwardly facing position to its rearwardly facing position and vice versa and a multispeed transmission having a plurality of forward speeds and at least one rearward speed said transmission including a plurality of solenoid operated directional control valves for speed change of the vehicle, the improvement comprising:
- a. a change lever provided in said driver's compartment for operating said transmission;
- b. an operation lever means provided in said driver's compartment for turning said driver's compartment;
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- c. transmission control means by which said transmission becomes automatically changed from a forward control condition to a rearward control condition when said driver's compartment is turned from the forwardly facing position to the rearward facing position by the operation of said driver's compartment operation lever wherein said transmission has a plurality of rearward speeds and at least one forward speed, and vice versa;
- whereby said vehicle has a multispeed transmission controlled by the operation of said change lever in the direction said driver's compartment is facing even when the driver's compartment is either in the forwardly facing position or in the rearwardly facing position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.