Antenna unit for work vehicle and work vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11569569-B2
Application number	US-201816652069-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2018
Priority date	Oct 6, 2017
Publication date	Jan 31, 2023
Grant date	Jan 31, 2023

Abstract

A GNSS antenna 26 and an inertial measurement unit 25 are placed at a longitudinal center of a unit base 55 mountable onto a work vehicle. A wireless communication unit 27 is placed at the longitudinal one end side of the unit base 55 . A wireless communication antenna 28 of the wireless communication unit 27 is placed in a front part of the unit base 55 , which is located on the front side of a vehicle body when the unit base 55 is mounted on the work vehicle. The GNSS antenna 26 is provided above the inertial measurement unit 25.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An antenna unit for a work vehicle, in which a GNSS antenna and an inertial measurement unit are placed at a longitudinal center of a unit base mountable onto a work vehicle,
a wireless communication unit is placed at one end side in a longitudinal direction of the unit base,
a wireless communication antenna of the wireless communication unit is placed in a front part of the unit base, which is located on a front side of a vehicle body when the unit base is mounted on the work vehicle, and
the GNSS antenna is provided above the inertial measurement unit.

2. The antenna unit for a work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of the wireless communication antennas are placed in the front part of the unit base and in parallel in the longitudinal direction of the unit base.

3. The antenna unit for a work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a distance between the GNSS antenna and an inner surface of a unit cover configured to cover the unit base is set to 30 mm or more.

4. The antenna unit for a work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a base station antenna configured to receive information from a reference station is placed on the other end side in the longitudinal direction of the unit base, and a raising part configured to place the base station antenna at a place higher than an antenna mounting part of the unit base is provided between the base station antenna and the antenna mounting part.

5. The antenna unit for a work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein a mounting space for another unit is formed on the other end side in the longitudinal direction of the unit base.

6. A work vehicle with a cabin, wherein
a support frame extending in a left-right width direction at an upper position outside the cabin is fixed to brackets extending upward from both right and left sides of a cabin frame, and an antenna unit in which an inertial measurement unit, a GNSS antenna, and a wireless communication device are built is built in the support frame in a state where the inertial measurement unit and the GNSS antenna are placed at a substantially center position in a left-right width direction of a vehicle body, and
the antenna unit is configured as the antenna unit for a work vehicle according to claim 1 .

7. The work vehicle according to claim 6 , wherein the antenna unit is mounted to be displaceable from a working position to a non-working position on a lower front side with respect to the support frame, and a guide unit configured to guide the antenna unit to be moved in a front-rear direction between the working position and the non-working position is provided.

8. The work vehicle according to claim 6 , wherein the antenna unit is mounted to be displaceable from a working position to a non-working position on a lower side with respect to the support frame, and the antenna unit is placed at a position substantially equal to or lower than a highest part of a top surface of the cabin in a state where the antenna unit is displaced to the non-working position on the lower side.

Assignees

• Yanmar Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hanada Yosuke

Classifications

• G01S19/36

  relating to the receiver frond end · CPC title

• G05D1/0278

  using satellite positioning signals, e.g. GPS · CPC title

• H01Q1/3275

  mounted on a horizontal surface of the vehicle, e.g. on roof, hood, trunk · CPC title

• B60R11/02

  for radio sets, television sets, telephones, or the like; Arrangement of controls thereof · CPC title

• G05D2201/0201

  Physics · mapped topic