Kubota Corporation

Chikashi Nishida

Kenji Ikeda

Denzaburo Harada

Hitoo Nasu

Takeshi Kajimoto

Ryoichi Tanaka

Mitsugu Kanai

Masaaki Kiritani

Yoshishiro Okita

Yoshiyuki Asanuma

Kouzi Masutani

A working vehicle comprising two pumps for driving hydraulic motors provided for opposite running devices individually and a valve mechanism for bringing the vehicle into a low-speed state wherein a fluid is supplied from the pumps to the motors individually, or alternatively into a high-speed state wherein the combined fluid from the pumps is supplied to the motors in series. The vehicle is provided with an operating assembly for preventing the vehicle from turning at a high speed even when the vehicle is inadvertently so operated by the driver in the high-speed state.

Drive pump arrangement for working vehicle

A vehicle with an engine, a torque converter, planetary gearing sets operatively connected with the torque converter, running means on either lateral side operatively connected with the respective planetary gearing set, a turning drive mechanism with two output shafts to rotate in opposite directions with each other and switching over means for selectively switching over output rotation directions of the turning drive mechanism. The turning drive mechanism takes the driving power from input side of the torque converter and transmits the power to drive either sun gear or planetary gears of the planetary gearing sets, thus to cause differential rotary speeds of the running means on one side as compared with the other side. The vehicle can thus turn very sharply when it travels at slow speed.

Vehicle for civil engineering work

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Sakai, Japan

Chikashi Nishida