US 11,807,310 B2
Cab
Tetsuji Takaoka, Akashi (JP); Masaya Yorifuji, Akashi (JP); Kentaro Tabata, Kobe (JP); and Yusuke Doi, Kobe (JP)
Assigned to Caterpillar SARL, Geneva (CH)
Filed by Caterpillar SARL, Geneva (CH)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/530,174.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-191810 (JP), filed on Nov. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0153355 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 33/06 (2006.01); B60J 5/04 (2006.01); B62D 25/24 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 33/0617 (2013.01) [B60J 5/0487 (2013.01); B62D 25/24 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cab comprising:
a cab main body having a front end, a rear end, a first lateral side and a second lateral side, and a cab frame mounted thereon, the cab frame comprising:
a first front pillar and a second front pillar extending upward from a floor surface proximate the front end and proximate the first side and the second side, respectively, the first front pillar having a first front pillar side surface facing outward from the cab main body,
a first rear pillar and a second rear pillar extending upward from the floor surface proximate the rear end and proximate the first side and the second side, respectively,
a first side header mounted to and extending between tops of the first front pillar and the first rear pillar, the first side header having a first side header side surface facing outward from the cab main body,
a first center pillar extending upward from the floor surface proximate the first lateral side and disposed between the first front pillar and the second front pillar, wherein the first front pillar, the first side header and the first center pillar define a doorway formed in this cab frame, and
a front window formed on the cab frame on a front surface adjacent to the doorway;
a front window shield which is attached to the cab main body so as to cover this front window, with an edge portion of the front window shield on the first lateral side protruding from the cab frame beyond the first front pillar side surface; and
a door having a door main body with a door frame installed on a cab side of the door main body, the door frame including a front frame portion arranged in a vertical direction along a front edge portion of the door main body, and an upper frame portion arranged in a front-rear direction along an upper edge portion of the door main body, wherein the door is movably mounted to the cab main body proximate the doorway so that the door opens and closes the doorway of this cab main body,
wherein the door is installed to the cab main body so that the front frame portion faces and is opposed to the first front pillar side surface and the upper frame portion faces and is opposed to the first side header side surface of the cab frame in a closed state of the doorway, and
wherein the edge portion of the front window shield protrudes beyond the first front pillar side surface by a protrusion amount so as to be opposed to the front frame portion of the door frame.