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US 7,007,416 B2Granted
Flexible hose covers for a work machine
AssigneeShin Caterpillar Mitsubishi Ltd.
InventorsNobukata Yonetake, Kosuke Yanagido, Shigeru Obinata
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AssigneeShin Caterpillar Mitsubishi Ltd.
InventorsNobukata Yonetake, Kosuke Yanagido, Shigeru Obinata
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A plurality of flexible hoses for supplying hydraulic oil from a main body to a traveling motor of a traveling device and discharging hydraulic oil from the traveling motor to the main body. The hoses between the main body and each traveling device are inserted through a flexible tubular hose cover so as to be contained therein. The plurality of hoses can be bundled and protected merely by being inserted through the hose cover. Even in the bundled state, the hoses are permitted to move inside the hose cover together with a width changing movement of the traveling device. The hose cover including a flexible first material member and a second material member having greater shape retention properities than the first material member.
A work machine comprising:
A flexible hose cover including a main body having traveling devices, each of which is disposed at each widthwise side of a main body and provided with at least one fluid pressure-operated device and a plurality of flexible hoses consisting of a plurality of hoses communicatively extending from the main body to said fluid pressure-operated device of each traveling device via an outside of the main body and the traveling device so that hydraulic fluid is supplied to and discharged from the fluid pressure-operated device through said plurality of hoses, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.