Construction machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9745717-B2
Application number	US-201514728060-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 2, 2015
Priority date	Jun 25, 2014
Publication date	Aug 29, 2017
Grant date	Aug 29, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a construction machine having a plurality of equipment units and a structural body supporting the equipment units, restricting height of each of the equipment units supported by the structural body with no considerable decrease in the strength of the structural body and no considerable restriction on the height dimension of the equipment units. The construction machine includes a structural body having a plurality of beam members, a first equipment unit placed on the structural body, and a second equipment unit which is other than the first equipment unit and placed on the structural body. The plurality of beam members includes a first beam member having a first placement surface on which the first equipment unit is placed and a second beam member having a second placement surface on which the second equipment unit is placed, the second placement surface being lower than the first placement surface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A construction machine comprising:
a lower traveling body;
an upper slewing body having an upper frame including a structural body including a plurality of beam members, the upper slewing body mounted on the lower traveling body so as to be slewable;
a working attachment including a boom with a boom foot which is a base end thereof, the boom foot being attached to the upper slewing body;
a first equipment unit placed on the structural body; and
a second equipment unit other than the first equipment unit, the second equipment unit placed on the structural body,
wherein the plurality of beam members provide a first placement surface on which the first equipment unit is placed, and a second placement surface on which the second equipment unit is placed, the second placement surface being lower than the first placement surface;
the upper frame includes a center section having a pair of right and left vertical plates extending in a front-rear direction and a right side deck and a left side deck which are disposed on right and left sides of the center section, respectively;
each of the vertical plates has a front end formed with a boom-foot-pin hole for attaching the boom foot to the vertical plate;
one of the right and left side decks is a specific side deck including the second placement surface;
the second equipment unit is placed on the second placement surface at a position where the second equipment unit is aligned with the boom-foot-pin hole in a right-left direction in a plan view thereof; and
the specific side deck includes:
a front lateral beam disposed on a front side of the boom-foot pin hole, the front lateral beam having a first modulus of section, and a rear lateral beam disposed on a rear side of the boom-foot pin hole, the rear lateral beam having a second modulus of section, the front lateral beam and the rear lateral beam being spaced in the front-rear direction in parallel to each other, each of the front and rear lateral beams extending in a right-left direction of the upper frame;

a front auxiliary beam and a rear auxiliary beam each extending in parallel to the front lateral beam and the rear lateral beam in a placement space between the front lateral beam and the rear lateral beam, the second placement surface being formed in the placement space, each of the front auxiliary beam and the rear auxiliary beam having a smaller modulus of section than the first modulus of section and the second modulus of section; and
a plurality of equipment-unit attachment members including a first support member disposed across the front lateral beam and the front auxiliary beam and a second support member disposed across the rear lateral beam and the rear auxiliary beam, thereby locating the second placement surface, in a front inter-boom region between the front lateral beam and the front auxiliary beam and a rear inter-boom region between the rear lateral beam and the rear auxiliary beam, at a position lower than respective upper surfaces of the front lateral beam and the rear lateral beam, each of the equipment-unit attachment members having the second placement surface.

2. The construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein the front and rear lateral beams and the front and rear auxiliary beams have respective inner ends that are joined to one of the vertical plates.

3. The construction machine according to claim 2 , further comprising a reinforcement member provided for at least one of the front lateral beam and the rear lateral beam, the reinforcement member including a plurality of edges joined to: the at least one lateral beam; a selected vertical plate which is selected from the pair of right and left vertical plates, the selected vertical plate allowing the inner end of the at least one of the lateral beams to be joined to the selected vertical plate; and a selected auxiliary beam which is selected from the front and rear auxiliary beams, the selected auxiliary beam corresponding to the at least one of the lateral beam, respectively.

4. The construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein each of the equipment-unit attachment members includes: a pair of right and left support plates which are bridged between a mounting lateral beam selected from the front and rear lateral beams and a mounting auxiliary beam selected from the front and rear auxiliary beams, the mounting auxiliary beam corresponding to the mounting lateral beam; and a mounting plate connected to the pair of support plates so as to be disposed across the pair of support plates, the mounting plate allowing a mount member for attaching the second equipment unit to be attached to the mounting plate.

5. The construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein each of the equipment-unit attachment members includes: a pair of right and left support plates which are bridged between a mounting lateral beam selected from the front and rear lateral beams and a mounting auxiliary beam selected from the front and rear auxiliary beams, the mounting auxiliary beam corresponding to the mounting lateral beam; and a mounting plate connected to the pair of support plates so as to be disposed across the pair of support plates, the mounting plate allowing a mount member for attaching the second equipment unit to be attached to the mounting plate, the pair of support plates and the mounting plate being formed of a single plate member.

Assignees

• Kobelco Constr Mach Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sakata Tomohiro
• Saiki Seiji

Classifications

• E02F9/0816

  Welded frame structure · CPC title

• E02F9/0808 Primary

  Improving mounting or assembling, e.g. frame elements, disposition of all the components on the superstructures (for disposition of specific components, E02F9/0858) · CPC title

• E02F9/10

  Supports for movable superstructures mounted on travelling or walking gears or on other superstructures · CPC title