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US 9,316,338 B2Granted
Front and rear condensate draining hoses for work vehicle
AssigneeIseki & Co., Ltd.
InventorsItsuki Doi, Takeshi Hagiyama, Koji Ochi, Takayuki Kajihara
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Abstract
A working vehicle includes: a cabin; an air conditioning unit disposed at a rear upper portion of the cabin; and drain hoses connected to a drain portion of the air conditioning unit, water drained from the drain portion flowing through the drain hoses, wherein the drain hoses are respectively disposed at both left and right sides of the air conditioning unit in front and rear direction, and both front and rear portions of the drain hoses are provided with drain hose outlets from which the water flowing through the drain hoses is drained.
Claims3
A working vehicle comprising:
- a cabin;
- an air conditioning unit disposed at a rear upper portion of the cabin;
- a first drain portion located at a left side of the air conditioning unit, and a second drain portion located at a right side of the air conditioning unit;
- a first T-shaped joint attached to the first drain portion, and a second T-shaped joint attached to the second drain portion;
- first and second drain hoses connected to the first and second drain portions via the first and second T-shaped joints respectively such that water is drained from each drain portion by flowing through the drain hoses, wherein the drain hoses are disposed at left and right sides of the air conditioning unit, and each drain hose comprises a front drain hose and a rear drain hose, and both the front and rear drain hoses are provided with drain hose outlets from which the water flowing through the drain hoses is drained, wherein each of the front and rear drain hoses are respectively connected to front and rear sides of the corresponding T-shaped joint;
- a cover which covers a lower side of the air conditioning unit;
- and
- first and second vertical support posts provided for the cabin, each vertical support post disposed in an up and down direction, wherein each of the front drain hoses passes through an inside of a corresponding one of the first and second vertical support posts from an inside of the cover, and each of the drain hose outlets provided in the front drain hoses is positioned below the cabin,
- wherein the rear drain hoses are disposed inside the cover, and each of the drain hose outlets provided in the rear drain hoses are exposed to an outside of the cover from a posterior end of the cover, and
- wherein each T-shaped joint and its respective front and rear drain hoses in the cover are inclined downward from a rear direction toward a front direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.