Wheel loader
AssigneeKomatsu Ltd.
InventorsHiroyuki Kitaoka, Ryuutaro Kato
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Abstract
A wheel loader includes a vehicle body frame, an engine, a working unit a fuel tank and a cooling device. The fuel tank is attached to a bottom surface of a rear part of the vehicle body frame, and has a rear end surface slanted obliquely rearwards from up to down. The cooling device is configured to release heat of a coolant flowing through an inside thereof. The cooling device is supported by the rear part of the vehicle body frame. A bottom end portion of the cooling device is opposed to and separated away from a rear end surface of the fuel tank at a predetermined distance in a back-and-forth direction. A bottom surface of the cooling device is positioned lower than a top surface of a rear end portion of the fuel tank.
Claims10
A wheel loader comprising:
- a vehicle body frame;
- an engine installed in the vehicle body frame;
- a working unit including a boom and a bucket mounted to a front end of the boom, the working unit being disposed forwards of the vehicle body frame;
- a fuel tank attached to a bottom surface of a rear part of the vehicle body frame, the fuel tank having a rear end surface slanted obliquely rearwards from up to down;
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- a cooling device configured to release heat of a coolant flowing through an inside thereof, the cooling device being supported by the rear part of the vehicle body frame, a bottom end portion of the cooling device being opposed to and separated away from a rear end surface of the fuel tank at a predetermined distance in a frontwards-to-rearwards direction, a bottom surface of the cooling device being positioned lower than a top surface of a rear end portion of the fuel tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.