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US 7,913,799 B2Granted
Working vehicle
AssigneeYanmar Co., Ltd.
InventorsShinya Kawashiri, Norikazu Nakayama
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Abstract
The invention provides a working vehicle which can easily couple the accelerator arm of the governor of the engine and the shift peal in spite that the rotating speed of the engine can be easily changed on the basis of the operation of the shift pedal, and the manufacturing cost can be easily reduced. In a working vehicle provide with an engine mounted to a traveling machine body provided with traveling wheels, a hydraulic continuously variable transmission shifting a power from the engine, and a shift pedal operating so as to increase and decrease a shift output of the hydraulic continuously variable transmission and an accelerator arm of the engine are coupled via an interlocking mechanism.
Claims8
A working vehicle, comprising:
- an engine mounted to a traveling machine body provided with traveling wheels;
- a hydraulic variable speed gear shifting a power from said engine;
- a shift pedal operating so as to increase and decrease a shift output of said hydraulic variable speed gear;
- a speed returning mechanism maintaining an output of said hydraulic variable speed gear approximately zero;
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- an accelerator arm operating a speed adjusting mechanism capable of adjusting a rotating speed of said engine,
- wherein a drive control portion is provided with an accelerator operating lever capable of being maintained at a position operated by an operator, and said accelerator operating lever is coupled to said accelerator arm via an accelerator wire which can be activated only in a pulling direction,
- wherein said speed returning mechanism has a shift link coupling said hydraulic variable speed gear and said shift pedal, and a speed returning link brought in to contact with said shift link in a direction of returning said shift pedal to an original position by an energizing force of a speed returning spring, and an accelerator coupling arm that is coupled to said speed returning link,
- wherein said speed returning link is configured such as to be movable in the same direction on the basis of each of operations in a forward moving side and a backward moving side of said shift pedal, and said accelerator coupling arm is coupled to said accelerator arm of said speed adjusting mechanism via a coupling wire that can be activated only in a pulling direction,
- wherein said speed returning link returns said shift link to an original position on the basis of an operation of releasing a foot from said shift pedal so as to maintain an output of said hydraulic variable speed gear approximately zero, and
- wherein said shift link operates said hydraulic variable speed gear to a speed increasing side on the basis of a pedaling operation of said shift pedal, and said accelerator arm operates said speed adjusting mechanism to a high rotation side, greater than or equal to a setting of said accelerator operating lever, via said speed returning link, said accelerator coupling arm and said coupling wire, approximately in proportion to an amount of a pedaling operation of said shift pedal.
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A working vehicle, comprising:
- an engine mounted to a traveling machine body provided with traveling wheels;
- a variable transmission for transmitting a power from said engine to driven ones of said traveling wheels;
- at least one shift pedal operable to selectively increase and decrease a shift output of said variable transmission;
- a speed adjusting mechanism including an accelerator arm for operating said speed adjusting mechanism, said speed adjusting mechanism being configured to be operable for adjusting a rotating speed of said engine;
- a drive control portion including an accelerator operating lever configured to be maintainable at a position operated by an operator of said working vehicle, said accelerator operating lever being coupled to said accelerator arm via an accelerator wire which can be activated only in a pulling direction;
- a speed returning mechanism for returning said variable transmission to a neutral position at which an output thereof is approximately zero, said speed returning mechanism including a shift link coupling said variable transmission and said at least one shift pedal which is biased in a direction of returning said at least one shift pedal to an original position;
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- an accelerator coupling arm being coupled to said accelerator arm of said speed adjusting mechanism via a coupling wire that can be activated only in a pulling direction, said speed returning mechanism being configured to return said shift link to an original position on the basis of an operation of releasing a foot of the operator from said at least one shift pedal so as to maintain an output of said variable transmission at approximately zero, said shift link operating said variable transmission to a speed increasing side thereof based on a pedaling operation of said at least one shift pedal, and said accelerator arm operating said speed adjusting mechanism to a high rotation side, greater than or equal to the setting of said accelerator operating lever, via said accelerator coupling arm and said coupling wire, approximately in proportion to an amount of a pedaling operation of said at least one shift pedal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.