Electric work vehicle, battery pack for electric work vehicle and contactless charging system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10493835-B2
Application number	US-201816017082-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 25, 2018
Priority date	Nov 16, 2015
Publication date	Dec 3, 2019
Grant date	Dec 3, 2019

Abstract

An electric work vehicle includes: a battery pack that is arranged between a left rear wheel arranged outside of a left frame and a right rear wheel arranged outside of a right frame, the front end of the battery pack being located forward of an axle center of a rear wheel unit; a left motor that is arranged above the battery pack, in the periphery of the left rear wheel, receives a supply of power from the battery pack, and transmits rotational power to the left rear wheel; and a right motor that is arranged above the battery pack, in the periphery of the right rear wheel, receives a supply of power from the battery pack, and transmits rotational power to the right rear wheel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electric mower in which a contactless charging system is incorporated, wherein
the contactless charging system comprises:
a primary coil unit that includes a coil power supply circuit portion and a primary coil arranged above the coil power supply circuit portion, the primary coil unit being arranged on a ground surface;
a battery pack arranged at a rear portion of a vehicle body frame, between a left and right pair of rear wheels;
a secondary coil that electromagnetically couples with the primary coil;
a charging circuit portion configured to rectify power from the secondary coil and supply the rectified power to the battery pack; and
a coil support member for arranging the secondary coil below the battery pack,

a mower unit hangs down elevatably at a front portion of the vehicle body frame, and
an electric motor unit configured to drive the rear wheels using power supplied from the battery pack via a motor power supply circuit portion is arranged forward of an axle center of the rear wheels, between the rear wheels.

2. The electric mower according to claim 1 , wherein the electric motor unit includes a left motor that drives one rear wheel via a left transmission, and a right motor that drives the other rear wheel via a right transmission, the left motor and the left transmission being arranged between the one rear wheel and the battery pack, and the right motor and the right transmission being arranged between the other rear wheel and the battery pack.

3. The electric mower according to claim 2 , wherein a lower surface of the mower unit at the highest position is lower than a lower surface of the secondary coil.

Assignees

• Kubota Kk

Inventors

• Ito Hirokazu
• Koike Kazuo
• Manji Yasuhiro

Classifications

• B60L53/302

  Cooling of charging equipment · CPC title

• B60L53/305

  Communication interfaces · CPC title

• B60L53/126

  Methods for pairing a vehicle and a charging station, e.g. establishing a one-to-one relation between a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver · CPC title

• B60L53/122

  Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, e.g. supplying electric power to the coil · CPC title

• A01D34/66

  with two or more cutters · CPC title