Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Isao Yoshida

Masakatsu Kono

Norikazu Shimizu

Joji Maeda

Hiroshi Sueshige

Masahiro Anzai

Seishu Sakai

Yasunori Yamamoto

Kazuo Shimizu

Takahiro Hoshino

Tatsuya Okuhara

A snow removing machine equipped with a snow removing plate is disclosed. The snow removing plate is mounted to a front portion of a vehicle body which forms part of the snow removing machine. An operating handle having grip portions is mounted to a rear portion of the vehicle body and obliquely extends upward. A battery, an electric motor and a power transmission mechanism are located below a linear line intersecting between an upper end of the snow removing plate and the grip portion. This causes the battery, the electric motor and the power transmission mechanism to be located below a view line of an operator when he looks at the snow removing plate, avoiding the view line from being disturbed to allow the operator to look at the upper end of the snow removing plate in his working attitude for thereby providing ease of operation of the snow removing machine.

Snow removing machine with snow removing plate

A snow removing machine has a vehicle body having a body frame, a snow removing section mounted on a front portion of the body frame for removing snow, an operating handle mounted to a rear portion of the body frame and having a first handle portion and a second handle portion, and a pair of grip portions each mounted on a respective one of the first and second handle portions of the operating handle. A forward and aft drive changeover switch is directly mounted on the first handle portion of the operating handle for changing over a traveling direction of the vehicle body. A height control operation lever is directly mounted on the first handle portion of the operating handle for adjusting a height of the snow removing section. A speed control operation lever is directly mounted on the second handle portion of the operating handle for adjusting a traveling speed of the vehicle body.

Snow removing machine

A walking-type snow removal machine comprises a snow removing member provided at a front part of a body frame for pushing snow forward, and crawler belts provided on right and left sides of the body frame. The body frame carries thereon an electric motor and a battery. The electric motor drives right and left drive wheels to drive the crawler belts. The electric motor generates little noise as compared with an engine, and contributes to downsizing of the snow removal machine. The battery supplies electrical power to the electric motor.

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Wako, Japan

Isao Yoshida