US 12,448,262 B2
Forklift
Naoto Kawauchi, Tokyo (JP); Tatsuya Sato, Tokyo (JP); Tetsuhei Kobayashi, Tokyo (JP); Megumu Tsuruta, Tokyo (JP); and Kensuke Futahashi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/113,831.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-040296 (JP), filed on Mar. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0294967 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B66F 9/075 (2006.01)
CPC B66F 9/07522 (2013.01) 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A forklift comprising:
a vehicle capable of traveling on a road surface, the vehicle including a vehicle body and a pair of straddle legs extending forward from a lower part of the vehicle body and provided at an interval in a vehicle width direction;
a cargo handling device including a mast provided between the pair of straddle legs and extending in an up-down direction, a lift bracket provided at the mast such that the lift bracket is capable of being raised and lowered, and a pair of forks extending forward from the lift bracket;
a reach mechanism including an advance/retract drive unit capable of performing advance/retract drive in a front-back direction on each of the pair of straddle legs; and
a coupling portion coupling the mast and the advance/retract drive unit, wherein
the coupling portion includes
a protrusion provided at one of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast and extending in the up-down direction toward the other of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast, and
an accommodating portion provided at the other of the advance/retract drive unit and the mast and including an accommodating hole extending from an upper surface of the accommodating portion and into which the protrusion is inserted from the up-down direction with a gap.