Apparatus for adjusting a height of control boxes
AssigneeVolvo Construction Equipment Holding Sweden AB
InventorHak Shin Kim
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an apparatus for adjusting a height of control boxes, which enables a driver to drive with an optimal posture according to his body condition by adjusting a height of the control boxes having operation levers. The apparatus for adjusting a height of control boxes according to the present invention distributes a weight of the control boxes to the upper and lower arms not to be directly transferred to the adjustment shaft, so a large force is not required for the rotations of the adjustment shaft, and, by using the same rotation shaft, has an advantage of enabling the left and right control boxes to simultaneously and constantly have the same height.
Claims4
An apparatus for adjusting a height of control boxes, comprising:
- a base plate mounted on the bottom of a driver's seat;
- a pair of upper arms and a pair of lower arms, the upper side of one upper arm being hinged to the upper side of another upper arm by a first pin, the lower side of one lower arm being hinged to the lower side of another lower arm by a second pin, and the lower sides of the pair of upper arms being hinged to the upper sides of the pair of lower arms by adjustment pins respectively;
- an adjustment shaft screw-coupled to at least one of the adjustment pins and having spirals adjusting a distance between the adjustment pins when rotating;
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- a first rotary arm one end of which is vertically fixed to one end of a rotation bar rotatably supported by the base plate and the other end of which is coupled to one of the first and second pins, a pin of the first and second pins which is not coupled being fixed to the based plate and the first rotary arm being coupled to one control box.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.