Industrial vehicle with seat cooling arrangement

A motor vehicle having an engine, a cooling fan for producing air flow which is used for cooling the engine, a top panel covering a top section of said engine, a seat having a seat portion mounted on said top panel, and a seat cooling arrangement for cooling said seat portion, said arrangement comprising:

• first means for forming a first clearance (d) of a given thickness between said seat portion and said top panel;
• and
• second means for fluidly connecting said first clearance with a given portion where the air flow produced by said cooling fan is present, thereby causing generation of air flow in said clearance, said second means comprising:
• a cover member having front and rear bent portions which are respectively formed with inlet and outlet openings, said cover member covering spacedly a peripheral section of said cooling fan in such an arrangement that air is admitted into the interior of said cover member via said inlet openings and is exhausted to the open air via said outlet openings when said cooling fan is in operation;
• and
• third means for defining a passage which connects said first clearance with said inlet openings of said cover member.