Work vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12296743-B2
Application number	US-202218089794-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2022
Priority date	Dec 28, 2021
Publication date	May 13, 2025
Grant date	May 13, 2025

Abstract

A work vehicle includes: a vehicle body that travels; a boom attached to the vehicle body to be vertically swingable; a work tool mounted to a front portion of the boom; a first illumination lamp that is disposed in the vehicle body and emits an illumination light forward; a second illumination lamp that is disposed in the boom and emits an illumination light toward the work tool; and an illumination controller that controls the first illumination lamp and the second illumination lamp, the illumination controller executing a lighting restriction of automatically turning off or dimming the first illumination lamp while the second illumination lamp is turned on.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A work vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle body that travels;
a boom attached to the vehicle body to be vertically swingable;
a work tool mounted to a front portion of the boom;
a first illumination lamp that is disposed in the vehicle body and emits an illumination light forward;
a second illumination lamp that is disposed in the boom and emits an illumination light toward the work tool; and
an illumination controller that controls the first illumination lamp and the second illumination lamp, wherein
the illumination controller executes a lighting restriction of automatically turning off or dimming the first illumination lamp while the second illumination lamp is turned on.

2. The work vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the illumination controller executes the lighting restriction while the boom is raised to a predetermined position or higher.

3. The work vehicle of claim 2 , wherein at the predetermined position, a height of at least a portion of the boom is identical to a height of the first illumination lamp.

4. The work vehicle of claim 2 , further comprising:
a boom position detector that detects a position of the boom, wherein
the illumination controller switches between executing and canceling the lighting restriction based on position detection information obtained from the boom position detector.

5. The work vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the illumination controller cancels the lighting restriction while the boom is below a predetermined position.

6. The work vehicle of claim 1 , further comprising:
an illumination switch for manually turning the second illumination lamp on and off, wherein
the illumination controller executes the lighting restriction based on an operation of turning on the illumination switch.

7. The work vehicle of claim 6 , further comprising:
an operation lever for manually operating the boom, wherein
the illumination switch is disposed on the operation lever.

8. The work vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the second illumination lamp is disposed in a lower edge portion of the boom.

9. The work vehicle of claim 1 , wherein the second illumination lamp is configured to be capable of directing the illumination light to in front of and behind the work tool.

10. The work vehicle of claim 1 , further comprising:
a bracket that is connected to the boom and supports the second illumination lamp; and
cables disposed along the boom, wherein
a gap is defined between mutually opposing faces of the boom and the bracket, and
the cables can be inserted in the gap.

11. The work vehicle of claim 10 , wherein
the bracket has a flange on an outer edge portion of a face portion opposing the boom, and
the flange prevents the cables from contacting the second illumination lamp.

12. The work vehicle of claim 11 , wherein the flange extends outward from the outer edge portion and is inclined in a direction of widening the gap.

13. The work vehicle of claim 1 , further comprising:
a cabin mounted on the vehicle body and comprises a roof, wherein
the boom comprises:
a left boom disposed on a left side of the boom; and
a right boom disposed on a right side of the boom,

the first illumination lamp is disposed in each of a left front portion and a right front portion of the roof, and
the second illumination lamp is disposed in each of the left boom and the right boom.

Assignees

• Kubota Kk

Inventors

• Iizuka Hiroaki
• Hashimoto Daisuke
• Takeshita Shuichi

Classifications

• B60Q1/0483

  mounted on a bracket, e.g. details concerning the mouting of the lamps on the vehicle body · CPC title

• E02F3/34

  with bucket-arms {, i.e. a pair of arms, e.g. manufacturing processes, form, geometry, material of bucket-arms (with a single arm E02F3/283)} directly pivoted on the frames of tractors or self-propelled machines · CPC title

• B60Q2800/20

  Utility vehicles, e.g. for agriculture, construction work · CPC title

• E02F9/2012

  Setting the functions of the control levers, e.g. changing assigned functions among operations levers, setting functions dependent on the operator or seat orientation · CPC title

• E02F3/3408

  of the parallelogram-type · CPC title