US 12,030,564 B2
Tracked vehicle
Tomohiro Ueki, Ibaraki (JP); Takeshi Shibukawa, Ibaraki (JP); Tomoharu Morita, Ibaraki (JP); Yutaro Iwabuchi, Ibaraki (JP); Taira Yamabuki, Ibaraki (JP); and Koki Sugiyama, Ibaraki (JP)
Assigned to HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/251,074
Filed by HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 19, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/006019
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 10, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/170326, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0122434 A1, Apr. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. B62D 55/06 (2006.01); B62D 55/088 (2006.01); B62D 55/10 (2006.01); F16H 57/02 (2012.01); E02F 9/02 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 55/06 (2013.01) [B62D 55/10 (2013.01); F16H 57/02 (2013.01); E02F 9/02 (2013.01); F16H 2057/02056 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tracked vehicle comprising:
a center frame forming a support structural body of a vehicle body;
a side frame provided on both left and right sides of said center frame, respectively, by extending in a front-and-rear direction;
an idler wheel provided on first ends in the front-and-rear direction of said side frames, respectively;
a reduction device provided on second ends in the front-and-rear direction of said side frames, respectively,
said reduction device constituted by a reduction gear and a traveling motor;
a drive wheel connected to output sides of said reduction gears of the reduction devices, respectively;
a crawler belt looped around said idler wheels and said drive wheels, respectively; and
a motor guard provided on the second ends in the front-and-rear direction of said side frames, respectively, and covering said traveling motor of said reduction device,
wherein said traveling motor is mounted on said reduction gear in a state protruding to an inner side in a left-and-right direction from said side frames toward said center frame,
wherein said motor guard is constituted by an inner guard member having a lower guard plate located at a lower side of said traveling motor, an upper guard plate located at an upper side of said traveling motor, a rear guard plate located at a rear side of said traveling motor, and a front guard plate located at a front side of said traveling motor, and which has a gap from said traveling motor and which covers said traveling motor from the lower side, the upper side, the rear side, and the front side, and an outer guard member which has a gap from the lower side of said lower guard plate, the upper side of said upper guard plate, the front side of said front guard plate and the rear side of said rear guard plate, and which covers said lower guard plate, said upper guard plate, said front guard plate, and said rear guard plate from an outer side,
wherein said outer guard member is provided by protruding inward in the left-and-right direction which is the center frame side, and has an inclined surface inclined to at least one axis of an axis in the front-and-rear direction, an axis in the left-and-right direction, and an axis in a vertical direction, and
wherein a strength of said inner guard member is lower than a strength of said side frame and higher than a strength of said outer guard member.