US 8,801,086 B2Granted

Cabin system

AssigneeKubota Corporation

InventorsMitsuhiko Obe, Azusa Hirano, Eiichi Ishida, Kenichi Ishido

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Abstract

A cabin system to be mounted on a vehicle body includes a driver's seat, an air conditioner body for indoor air conditioning disposed downwardly of the driver's seat, a plurality of support pillars constituting a cabin framework, a ceiling portion, and a main duct having a hollow tubular construction, the main duct forming therein an air passageway for the indoor air conditioning. The main duct includes, at a lower portion thereof, a duct connecting opening to be connected to the air conditioner body and also includes, at a lateral portion thereof, a support pillar engaging face. The main duct is attached through the support pillar engaging face to one of the support pillars along an indoor side peripheral face of the one support pillar. The support pillar engaging face of the main duct and the indoor side peripheral face of the one support pillar have profiles complementary with each other.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A cabin system to be mounted on a vehicle body, said cabin system comprising:

a driver's seat;
an air conditioner body for indoor air conditioning disposed downwardly of the driver's seat;
a plurality of support pillars constituting a cabin framework;
a ceiling portion;
an air distributing duct vertically extending forwardly of the driver's seat;
a relay duct for connecting the air distributing duct to a conditioned air discharging opening of the air conditioner body;
an inspection access opening defined at a right/left center of a front floor constituting a floor face forwardly of the driver's seat;
an inspection access opening closing plate for closing the inspection access opening, the inspection access opening closing plate being attachable/detachable from inside the cabin;
wherein the relay duct is disposed downwardly of the inspection access opening closing plate and the relay duct can be detached toward the inside of the cabin through the inspection access opening.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/917,161Filed 13 Jun 2013 · division
Priority: JP 2010-07882830 Mar 2010
Published: US 2013/0270867 A117 Oct 2013
Granted: 12 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

B62D 33/06
Superstructures for load-carrying vehicles: drivers' cabs
B60H 1/00378
Air-conditioning arrangements specially adapted for particular vehicles: for tractor or load vehicle cabins
B62D 25/07
Fixed roofs: having water drainage or guide means integral with roof structure
B62D 33/0604
Drivers' cabs: cabs insulated against vibrations or noise, e.g. with elastic suspension

Family

Application13/052,802Parent of this division · filed 21 Mar 2011
US 2013/0270867 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Oct 2013
US 8,485,589 B2Parent of this division
US 2011/0241379 A1Published application
US 8,801,086 B2This patent

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