Working vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11247557-B2
Application number	US-202016893490-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 5, 2020
Priority date	Jun 11, 2019
Publication date	Feb 15, 2022
Grant date	Feb 15, 2022

Abstract

A working vehicle includes a PTO shaft to transmit power of a propulsion shaft, a PTO clutch including a first rotor to be rotated by the power of the propulsion shaft, a second rotor to transmit the power to the PTO shaft, a press to be moved by a pressure of operation fluid between an engaging side on which the first rotor is engaged with the second rotor and a disengaging side, and a PTO brake to brake the PTO shaft when the press is positioned on the disengaging side, a control valve to control the pressure of the operation fluid to be applied to the PTO clutch, a rate setter to set a reducing rate at which the pressure of the operation fluid is reduced, and a controller to control the control valve based on the reducing rate.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A working vehicle comprising:
a PTO shaft to transmit, to a working device, power of a propulsion shaft through which power of a prime mover is transmitted;
a PTO clutch including:
a first rotor to be rotated by the power of the propulsion shaft;
a second rotor to transmit the power to the PTO shaft;
a pressing member configured to be moved by a pressure of operation fluid between an engaging side on which the first rotor is engaged with the second rotor and a disengaging side on which the first rotor is disengaged from the second rotor; and
a PTO brake to brake the PTO shaft when the pressing member is positioned on the disengaging side;

a control valve to control the pressure of the operation fluid to be applied to the PTO clutch;
a rate setter configured to set, with the control valve, a reducing rate at which the pressure of the operation fluid is reduced; and
a controller to control the control valve based on the reducing rate set by the rate setter.

2. The working vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the rate setter includes a switch to allow an operator to manually set the reducing rate.

3. The working vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a revolving detector to detect a revolving speed of the PTO shaft; wherein
the rate setter sets the reducing rate based on the revolving speed of the PTO shaft, the revolving speed being detected by the revolving detector when the pressing member is moved to the engaging side.

4. The working vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein the rate setter sets the reducing rate based on a relation between the revolving speed of the PTO shaft and a control signal outputted to the control valve, the revolving speed and the control signal being provided at a timing when the pressing member is moved to the engaging side.

5. The working vehicle according to claim 4 , wherein the rate setter lowers the reducing rate when an increasing rate of the revolving speed of the PTO shaft is smaller than a reference rate preliminarily determined and raises the reducing rate when the increasing rate is larger than the reference rate, with respect to an electric current value outputted as the control signal to the control valve.

6. The working vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the rate setter includes a display to allow setting of sensitivity of the reducing rate.

Assignees

• Kubota Kk

Inventors

• Azuma Hitoshi
• Yamaguchi Tetsuo
• Ohara Shinji
• Kuroshita Yoshihiko
• KONO Michita

Classifications

• F16D67/04

  fluid actuated · CPC title

• F16D2500/10437

  Power Take Off clutch · CPC title

• B60Y2200/221

  Tractors · CPC title

• B60K17/28 Primary

  characterised by arrangement, location, or type of power take-off · CPC title

• B60K25/06

  from the transmission power take-off · CPC title