US 11,951,876 B2
Multipurpose work vehicle
Kensuke Okabe, Sakai (JP); Kohta Nakao, Sakai (JP); and Yusuke Endo, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to Kubota Corporation, Osaka (JP)
Filed by Kubota Corporation, Osaka (JP)
Filed on Jun. 3, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/891,269.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-169569 (JP), filed on Sep. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0078449 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. B60N 2/01 (2006.01); B60N 2/38 (2006.01); B60N 2/64 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/01 (2013.01) [B60N 2/38 (2013.01); B60N 2/643 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multipurpose work vehicle, comprising:
a driver's seat at a center of a vehicle body in a left-right direction of the vehicle;
a left occupant's seat disposed to left of the driver's seat and a right occupant's seat disposed to right of the driver's seat in the left-right direction of the vehicle body;
a truck box positioned rearward of the driver's seat and the left and right occupant's seats;
an engine;
a flywheel;
a transmission case; and
a continuously variable transmission device,
wherein the driver's seat includes a seat cushion and a seat back, and the left and right occupant's seats include a seat cushion and a seat back,
wherein the occupant's seats are offset rearwardly relative to the driver's seat, the seat backs of the respective left and right occupant's seats are offset rearwardly relative to the seat back of the driver's seat, and the engine and the transmission case are positioned below the driver's seat and the truck box and at the center of the vehicle body in the left-right direction of the vehicle body, and are arranged in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body without overlapping each other as viewed from above,
wherein the engine, the flywheel, the transmission case and the continuously variable transmission device are arranged in this order from forward to rearward,
wherein, in a plan view, a front end of the engine is positioned forward of rear ends of the seat backs of the respective left and right occupant's seats and rearward of the seat back of the driver's seat,
wherein roll-over protective structure (ROPS) frames are positioned above the driver's seat and the left and right occupant's seats and laterally outwardly of the driver's seat and the left and right occupant's seats and extend in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body,
wherein a reinforcing frame extends laterally and is connected to the left and right ROPS frames, and
wherein, in a plan view, the seat backs of only the left and right occupant's seats, from among the driver's seat and the left and right occupant's seats, partially overlap the reinforcing frame, and only the engine from among the engine, the flywheel, the transmission case, and the continuously variable transmission device partially overlaps the reinforcing frame.