Triangular crawler apparatus
AssigneeKomatsu Ltd.
InventorsHaruhiro Tsubota, Hikosaburo Hiraki, Kazutoshi Hori
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A triangular crawler device, which is free from being stumbled and whose crawler belt does not come off from a body of a vehicle while the vehicle travels, includes a track frame (10), having a front idler (15A) and a rear idler (15B) disposed at the front and rear ends thereof respectively; a sprocket (20), rotatably fixed to the track frame (10); links (11, 13), for connecting the body (2) of the vehicle (1) and the track frame (10) together; and a crawler belt (17), wound around the front idler (15A), the rear idler (15B) and the sprocket (20).
Claims13
A triangular crawler device comprising:
- a track frame, having a front end portion and a rear end portion;
- a sprocket, which is rotatably mounted on said track frame;
- a front idler, which is disposed below and forward of said sprocket and which is disposed at said front end portion of said track frame;
- a rear idler, which is disposed below and rearward of said sprocket and which is disposed at said rear end portion of said track frame;
- two links, each connecting said track frame to a vehicle body;
- and
- a crawler belt, which is wound around said sprocket, said front idler, and said rear idler.
A vehicle having a vehicle body and at least one pair of triangular crawler devices positioned on opposite sides of said vehicle body, each said triangular crawler device comprising:
- a track frame, having a front end portion and a rear end portion;
- a sprocket, which is rotatably mounted on said track frame;
- a front idler, which is disposed below and forward of said sprocket and which is disposed at said front end portion of said track frame;
- a rear idler, which is disposed below and rearward of said sprocket and which is disposed at said rear end portion of said track frame;
- two links, each connecting said track frame to said vehicle body;
- and
- a crawler belt, which is wound around said sprocket, said front idler, and said rear idler.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.