US 11,912,124 B2
Tractor
Yoshiyuki Tamaki, Osaka (JP); Kyota Inoue, Osaka (JP); Ryuichi Inoue, Osaka (JP); Masaru Shinya, Osaka (JP); and Satoshi Nagata, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to Kubota Corporation, Osaka (JP)
Filed by Kubota Corporation, Osaka (JP)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/975,857.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-162213 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0129702 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 13/04 (2006.01); B62D 25/10 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 13/04 (2013.01) [B62D 25/10 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/221 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tractor comprising:
a vehicle body;
an engine bonnet that forms an engine compartment;
an engine that is disposed in the engine compartment;
a first exhaust-gas cleaning device that is disposed in the engine compartment and cleans exhaust gas discharged by the engine; and
a second exhaust-gas cleaning device that is disposed in the engine compartment and cleans the exhaust gas, wherein
the first exhaust-gas cleaning device is smaller than the second exhaust-gas cleaning device,
the first exhaust-gas cleaning device is disposed above the engine such that a long side of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device is substantially parallel to a vehicle-body lateral width direction,
the second exhaust-gas cleaning device is disposed behind the engine with respect to a vehicle-body front side such that a long side of the second exhaust-gas cleaning device is substantially parallel to the vehicle-body lateral width direction; and
a maximum length of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device in a vehicle-body vertical direction is shorter than a maximum length of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device in a vehicle-body longitudinal direction.