Deere + Company

Joerg Jens Hoefle

Ignacio Alonso Martinez

Sankaran Subramaniam

Jonathan J Nelson

Carlos Vargas

Steffen Fischer

Sebastian Rupp

Dieter Rueckert

A hybrid bucket assembly for a work vehicle having movable loader arms includes a structural skeleton having a frame, one or more support struts mounted to the frame, and one or more brackets coupled to the support struts configured to interface with a carrier at distal ends of the loader arms. A bucket shell is mounted to the skeleton that defines a carry volume for materials. Force loading on the bucket shell is carried by the skeleton through the struts.

Hybrid load bucket assembly

Transmission shifter console

Handle for control lever

A suspension for the operator's platform of agricultural or industrial vehicles uncouples the platform from vibrations of the vehicle chassis, in particular vertical vibrations acting in the vehicle's fore-and-aft plane. To do this, at least one essentially horizontally and laterally aligned torsion rod is fixed with its ends between the platform and a first end of a pair of links. The second end of each link is pivotally mounted to the vehicle chassis, with the pivot axis parallel to the torsion rod axis. The torsion rod is supported in the vehicle platform by a bearing which is close to the link.

Torsion bar suspension for operator's platform

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Jugenheim, Germany

Joerg Jens Hoefle