US 11,912,350 B2
Work vehicle
Shinji Misaki, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to KUBOTA CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/051,816
Filed by KUBOTA CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 17, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/049388
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 30, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/129974, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 25, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-238885 (JP), filed on Dec. 20, 2018; and application No. 2018-238886 (JP), filed on Dec. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0300460 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. B62D 5/04 (2006.01); B62D 1/187 (2006.01); B62D 6/00 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 5/0412 (2013.01) [B62D 1/187 (2013.01); B62D 6/00 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A work vehicle, comprising:
a steering wheel to steer a vehicle body of the work vehicle;
a steering shaft connected with the steering wheel, extending downward from the steering wheel, and rotatable in response to turning of the steering wheel;
a steering tower for which the steering wheel and the steering shaft are provided;
an automatic steering mechanism to automatically steer the vehicle body so that the vehicle body travels on a target travel path;
an automatic steering switching lever to start or end automatic steering of the vehicle body; and
a forward-reverse switching lever to switch a travel direction of the vehicle body between a forward travel and a reverse travel; wherein
the automatic steering mechanism includes a motor to drive the steering shaft to rotate;
the automatic steering mechanism is in the steering tower;
the motor is under the steering wheel and laterally adjacent to the steering shaft; and
the automatic steering switching lever and the forward-reverse switching lever are both positioned (i) at an upper portion of the steering tower, and (ii) on one side of a rotation axis of the steering wheel in a left-right direction of the vehicle body, and are located at respective positions different from each other in a front-back direction of the vehicle body.