Dump truck

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9868343-B2
Application number	US-201415122058-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2014
Priority date	Feb 27, 2014
Publication date	Jan 16, 2018
Grant date	Jan 16, 2018

Abstract

A dump truck includes: a vehicle body frame; a body supported by the vehicle body frame and configured to be raised or lowered; a plurality of tires provided to the vehicle body frame via a suspension; and a driving unit in a form of an electric motor configured to drive the tires, in which the vehicle body frame includes: supports respectively supporting an upper arm and a lower arm of a suspension arm of the suspension; and a hollow part at least partially in the vicinity of the supports, and the electric motor is fixed to the vehicle body frame while being housed in the hollow part of the vehicle body frame and supported by an inner surface of the hollow part.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A dump truck comprising:
a vehicle body frame;
a body supported by the vehicle body frame and configured to be raised and lowered;
a plurality of tires provided to the vehicle body frame via a suspension; and
a driving unit configured to drive the tires,
wherein the vehicle body frame comprises:
a support that provides support to a suspension arm of the suspension, a frame space being defined inside the vehicle body frame at a portion at which the support is provided, and
a hollow part in the vicinity of the support and in fluid communication with the frame space, and

wherein the driving unit is fixed to the vehicle body frame while being housed in the hollow part of the vehicle body frame and supported by an inner surface of the hollow part.

2. The dump truck according to claim 1 , wherein
the vehicle body frame comprises a vertical member extending vertically upward, a lower end of which is connected to the vehicle body frame in the vicinity of the hollow part, and
the body is mounted on a mount portion that is provided on an upper portion of the vertical member.

3. The dump truck according to claim 1 , wherein
the driving unit is supported by a projection that projects from the inner surface of the hollow part toward the driving unit.

4. The dump truck according to claim 3 , wherein
the driving unit is an electric motor,
the projection is provided by a plurality of projections spaced from each other in a circumferential direction of the inner surface, and
the plurality of projections are configured to allow a passage of a cooling air for cooling the electric motor between the projections.

5. A dump truck comprising:
a vehicle body frame;
a body supported by the vehicle body frame and configured to be raised and lowered;
tires provided to a first side and a second side of the vehicle body frame in a travel direction via a suspension; and
an electric motor configured to drive the tires,
the vehicle body frame comprising:
a pair of front and back lower cross members extending in a vehicle width direction and provided at positions of the tires provided to the first side and the second side of the vehicle body frame in the travel direction in a side view;
vertical members extending vertically upward from both sides of each of the pair of front and back cross members in the vehicle width direction; and
an upper cross member extending in the vehicle width direction in a manner to connect upper ends of the respective vertical members, wherein:

a support that provides support to a suspension arm of the suspension is provided on each end of each of the lower cross members and on a lower portion of each of the vertical members connected to each of the lower cross members,
a frame space is defined inside the vehicle body frame at a portion at which the support is provided,
each of the lower cross members defines a hollow part that is in fluid communication with the frame space,
the electric motor is fixed to the vehicle body frame while being housed in the hollow part of each of the lower cross members and supported by an inner surface of the hollow part, and
the body is mounted on a mount portion that is provided on the upper cross member.

6. The dump truck according to claim 1 , wherein the hollow part is positioned vertically below the support.

Assignees

• Komatsu Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• Uranaka Kyouji
• Ootsuka Takeo
• SASAKI Taiga

Classifications

• B60K2007/0046

  the motor moving together with the vehicle body, i.e. moving independently from the wheel axle · CPC title

• B60K2001/006

  the electric motors · CPC title

• B62D21/186

  for building site vehicles or multi-purpose tractors (tracked vehicles B62D55/10; tractors in general B62D49/00; building site vehicles in general E02F; lift-trucks B66F) · CPC title

• B60G3/20

  all arms being rigid · CPC title

• B60P1/04

  with a tipping movement of load-transporting element (dredgers or soil-shifting machines E02F3/00) · CPC title