Construction machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9453482-B2
Application number	US-201414520968-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 22, 2014
Priority date	Nov 20, 2013
Publication date	Sep 27, 2016
Grant date	Sep 27, 2016

Abstract

Provide is a construction machine allowing an air cleaner to be located entirely low while securing dust-discharge function thereof, with no risk of adverse effects such as diffusion of dusts and complication in structure. The construction machine includes an engine and an air cleaner connected to an intake-side portion of the engine to filter intake air. The air cleaner includes an air-cleaner main body which filters the intake air and an evacuator which discharges dusts separated from the intake air and protrudes downward beyond the air-cleaner main body. The air-cleaner main body is placed on an air-cleaner placement surface, the evacuator protruding downward beyond the air-cleaner placement surface at a position deviated outward from the air-cleaner placement surface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A construction machine comprising:
an engine;
an air cleaner connected to an intake-side portion of the engine to filter intake air, the air cleaner including an air-cleaner main body which filters the intake air and an evacuator which discharges dusts separated from the intake air and protrudes downward beyond the air-cleaner main body; and
a guard member, wherein:
the air-cleaner main body is placed on an air-cleaner placement surface, the evacuator protruding downward beyond the air-cleaner placement surface at a position deviated outward from the air-cleaner placement surface;
the air-cleaner main body includes a filter take-in and take-out port at an axial end side of the air-cleaner main body;
the air cleaner further includes an end cover configured to be detachably attached to the air-cleaner main body so as to close the filter take-in and takeout port;
the evacuator is attached to the end cover so as to protrude downward beyond a lower surface of the end cover; and
the guard member covers the entire air cleaner including the end cover, the guard member including an evacuator guard portion which covers the evacuator at a bottom side thereof.

2. The construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein the evacuator guard portion includes a distal end letting a space over the distal end be opened, the evacuator guard portion being inclined toward the distal end.

3. A construction machine comprising:
an engine;
an air cleaner connected to an intake-side portion of the engine to filter intake air, the air cleaner including an air-cleaner main body which filters the intake air and an evacuator which discharges dusts separated from the intake air and protrudes downward beyond the air-cleaner main body;
a lower travelling body;
an upper slewing body mounted on the lower travelling body so as to be slewable, the upper slewing body including an upper frame on which the engine and the air cleaner are mounted; and
a tank mounted on the upper frame, the tank having an upper surface,
wherein the upper surface of the tank is an air-cleaner placement surface and the air-cleaner main body is placed on the air-cleaner placement surface, the evacuator protruding downward beyond the air-cleaner placement surface at a position deviated outward from the air-cleaner placement surface.

4. The construction machine according to claim 3 , wherein: the air-cleaner main body includes a filter take-in and take-out port at an axial end side of the air-cleaner main body; the air cleaner further includes an end cover configured to be detachably attached to the air-cleaner main body so as to close the filter take-in and take-out port; and the evacuator is attached to the end cover so as to protrude downward beyond a lower surface of the end cover.

Assignees

• Kobelco Constr Mach Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yokota Jumpei
• Murakami Masaaki
• Kita Tomotaka
• Ueda Yoshihiko

Classifications

• F02M35/084

  Dust collection chambers or discharge sockets, e.g. chambers fed by gravity or closed by a valve · CPC title

• E02F9/0883

  Tanks, e.g. oil tank, urea tank, fuel tank (for vehicles in general B60K15/00) · CPC title

• F02M35/086

  Dust removal by flushing, blasting, pulsating or aspirating flow, washing or the like; Mechanical dust removal, e.g. by using scrapers · CPC title

• F02M35/164 Primary

  Heavy duty vehicles, e.g. trucks, trains, agricultural or construction machines · CPC title

• B60K13/02

  concerning intake · CPC title