Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080283324 | Hydraulically Driven Working Vehicle and Hydraulic Transaxle - In a hydraulic four-wheel drive vehicle, a rear transaxle incorporates a hydraulic motor for driving rear wheels, a front transaxle incorporates a hydraulic motor for driving front wheels, and hydraulic pressure fluid pipes interposed between the front and rear transaxles are extended along at least one of left and right side plates of a frame of the vehicle. | 11-20-2008 |
20090025997 | Hydraulic Drive Vehicle with Cooling System - A hydraulic drive vehicle comprises a vehicle frame, a bonnet, a prime mover, a hydraulic transaxle, a seat, a reservoir tank, and a cooling fan and a cooling duct. The bonnet is supported on one of front and rear portions of the vehicle frame, and provided therein with a first space. The prime mover is disposed in the first space. The hydraulic transaxle is driven by the prime mover. The seat is supported on the other of the front and rear portions of the vehicle frame, and is provided therebelow with a second space. The reservoir tank is fluidly connected to the hydraulic transaxle. The cooling fan is driven by the prime mover. The cooling duct is disposed in the second space. The cooling fan and the reservoir tank are disposed in the cooling duct so that the cooling fan cools the reservoir tank. A hydraulic pump for driving the hydraulic transaxle is disposed in the cooling duct so as to be cooled by the cooling fan. | 01-29-2009 |
20090288901 | Hydrostatic Transaxle and Hydraulically Driven Vehicle - A hydraulically driven vehicle comprises: a first transaxle disposed at one of front and rear portions of the vehicle, wherein the first transaxle incorporates a first hydraulic motor for driving a first axle; a second transaxle disposed at the other of the rear or front portion of the vehicle, wherein the second transaxle incorporates a second hydraulic motor for driving a second axle; a hydraulic pump for supplying fluid to the first and second hydraulic motors; a mower; a duct for transferring grass mowed by the mower, wherein the first transaxle is disposed above the duct; and a vertical power train interposed between the first axle and an axial center shaft of a wheel driven by the first axle, wherein the power train is disposed on a lateral outside of the duct. | 11-26-2009 |
20100050625 | Axle Driving Apparatus for a Zero Turn Radius Vehicle - An axle driving apparatus includes a first housing having a plurality of cooling fins, an axle rotatably mounted in the first housing, a hydraulic stepless speed change assembly disposed within the first housing. The axle driving apparatus also includes a second housing having a plurality of cooling fins, an axle rotatably mounted in the second housing, a hydraulic stepless speed change assembly disposed within the second housing. A connecting means, such as a bar and/or plate connects the first and second housings. The plurality of cooling fins on the first housing has a different configuration that the plurality of cooling fins on the second housing. | 03-04-2010 |
20100051410 | Traveling System Transmission Structure for Vehicle - The traveling system transmission structure for vehicle includes a planetary gear unit, a forward/rearward-travel switch unit and a transmission case. A front end portion of a sun gear shaft is directly or indirectly supported by a front bearing wall that is detachably connected to a front side of the transmission case and a rear end portion of a planetary outputting member is directly or indirectly supported by an intermediate bearing wall, so that the planetary gear unit is accommodated in a front chamber that is sandwiched by the front bearing wall and the intermediate bearing wall. A front end portion of a forward/rearward-travel input shaft is directly or indirectly supported by the intermediate bearing wall and a rear end portion of a clutch shaft is supported by a rear bearing wall that is detachably connected to the rear side of the transmission case, so that the forward/rearward-travel switch unit is accommodated in a rear chamber that is sandwiched by the intermediate bearing wall and the rear bearing wall. | 03-04-2010 |
20100147616 | Hydrostatic Transaxle - A hydrostatic transaxle comprises: a motor casing; at least one hydraulic motor disposed in the motor casing; at least one output shaft disposed in the motor casing so as to be driven by the at least one hydraulic motor; and a pair of steerable wheel support units attached onto respective opposite ends of the motor casing. Each of the steerable wheel support units includes an axle, a steerable casing, a wheel, and a steering arm. In each of the steerable wheel support units, the axle is drivingly connected to the at least one output shaft, the steerable casing is substantially horizontally rotatable relative to the motor casing, the wheel is attached on an outer end of the axle outside of the steerable casing, and the steering arm is rotatably integrally provided on the steerable casing. The hydrostatic transaxle further comprises a pair of connection rods for connecting the steering arms of the steerable wheel support units to a common rotary member of a steering operation mechanism spaced forward or rearward from the hydrostatic transaxle. | 06-17-2010 |
20100222172 | Power Transmission System of Hydraulically Driven Working Vehicle - A power transmission system of a hydraulically driven working vehicle comprises: a prime mover supported by a vehicle frame, the prime mover including a prime mover output shaft projecting in the fore-and-aft direction of the vehicle; a pump housing; a hydraulic pump disposed in the pump housing, the hydraulic pump including a pump shaft projecting from the pump housing in the fore-and-aft direction of the vehicle so as to be drivingly connected to the prime mover output shaft; a first hydraulic motor disposed outside the pump housing so as to be fluidly connected to the hydraulic pump; a transaxle supported by one of front and rear portions of the vehicle frame, the transaxle including a transaxle housing, a pair of axles disposed in the transaxle housing so as to be driven by the hydraulic motor, and a differential gear unit disposed in the transaxle housing so as to be drivingly interposed between the hydraulic motor and the pair of axles; a PTO shaft; and a working power train extracting a part of power transmitted from the prime mover output shaft to the pump shaft and transmitting the extracted power to the PTO shaft. | 09-02-2010 |
20110088545 | Hydraulic Actuator Unit - In the hydraulic actuator unit according to the present invention, a first electric motor assembly formed by mounting one of a pair of electric motors to one of a pair of electric motor covers is detachably mounted to a pump case so as to rotate a first control shaft around its axis line, and a second electric motor assembly formed by mounting the other one of the pair of electric motors to the other one of the pair of electric motor covers is detachably mounted to the pump case so as to rotate a second control shaft around its axis line. The first electric motor assembly is mounted to the pump case so that the corresponding electric motor has a rotational axis line in parallel with the first pump shaft in a state where the electric motor is positioned on an opposite side to the second control shaft with respect to the first control shaft and is also positioned on an opposite side to a first end of a first pump shaft with respect to a virtual plane that passes through the axis lines of the first and second control shafts. The second electric motor assembly is mounted to the pump case at a posture obtained by rotating the first electric motor assembly by 180 degrees about a virtual center line that is disposed in parallel with the first and second control shafts and is located at a center between the first and second control shafts, thereby the electric motor is positioned on an opposite side to a cooling fan, which is driven by the second end of the second pump shaft, with respect to the virtual plane. | 04-21-2011 |
20130150190 | Belt Type Continuously Variable Transmission And Pulley Sheave - Four types of pulley sheaves are common with one another in that each includes a pulley forming body having a tubular portion inserted around the corresponding shaft and a main body portion extending radially outward from one side of the tubular portion in an axis line direction, the main body portion including a conical friction surface inclined to be positioned closer to the other side of the tubular portion in the axis line direction, from an inner side to an outer side in a radial direction. The tubular portion of the pulley forming bodies that forms the driving-side and driven-side fixed pulley sheaves includes a fixing hole, while the tubular portion of the pulley forming bodies that forms the driving-side and driven-side movable pulley sheaves includes a sliding slot that allows the tubular portion to move along the axis line of the corresponding shaft only within the predetermined distance. | 06-13-2013 |