Swing bracket of construction machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9366005-B2
Application number	US-201414211326-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2014
Priority date	Apr 9, 2013
Publication date	Jun 14, 2016
Grant date	Jun 14, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a sufficiently reinforced swing bracket of a construction machine. The swing bracket includes a bracket body, a main connection portion connected to an upper slewing body of the construction machine, a swing-cylinder connection portion being protruded from one of right and left side parts of a lower end region of the bracket body to be connected to an end part of the swing cylinder and having a pair of supporting arms vertically opposed to each other with an interval, and a reinforcement portion for reinforcing a basal part of the swing-cylinder connection portion. The reinforcement portion has a main rib briding the supporting arms, and upper, lower, front, and rear ribs each extending from the main rib to an opposite side from the swing-cylinder connection portion. The upper and lower ribs and the front and rear ribs are continuous to form a box-shaped body.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A swing bracket to be provided in a construction machine equipped with a lower traveling body and an upper slewing body slewably mounted on the lower traveling body so as to be turned in a right-and-left direction around a vertical axis by a swing cylinder, the swing bracket comprising:
a bracket body;
a main connection portion joined to the bracket body and adapted to be connected to the upper slewing body so as to be allowed to be turned in a right-and-left direction around a vertical axis;
a swing-cylinder connection portion protruded from one of right and left side parts of a lower end part of the bracket body and adapted to be connected to an end part of the swing cylinder, the swing-cylinder connection portion having a pair of supporting arms vertically opposed to each other with an interval; and
a reinforcement portion for reinforcing a basal part of the swing-cylinder connection portion, the reinforcement portion including a main rib bridging the pair of supporting arms and a plurality of ribs including an upper rib, a lower rib, a front rib, and a rear rib, the upper rib, the lower rib, the front rib, and the rear rib extending from an upper end, a lower end, a front end, and a rear end of the main rib, respectively, to an opposite side from the swing-cylinder connection portion, the pair of the upper and lower ribs and the pair of the front and rear ribs being continuous with each other to integrally form a box-shaped body opened to the opposite side of the main rib from the swing-cylinder connection portion.

2. The swing bracket according to claim 1 , wherein the main rib has a plate-shape having a thickness direction which is parallel to respective directions in which the supporting arms of the swing-cylinder connection portion are protruded.

Assignees

• Kobelco Constr Mach Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hiragakiuchi Atoshi
• Nakatani Mitsuo

Classifications

• Y10T403/32606

  Pivoted · CPC title

• E02F3/627

  Devices to connect beams or arms to tractors or similar self-propelled machines, {e.g. drives therefor (connection of beams or booms or arms to the frame per se E02F3/382; connection of scraper bowls to the vehicle main body E02F3/653; connecting devices for agriculture tractors A01B59/06)} · CPC title

• E02F3/384 Primary

  the boom being pivotable relative to the frame about a vertical axis · CPC title