Kubota Corporation

Nobuyuki Yamashita

Masaki Hayashi

Hirokazu Ito

Hiroki Nagai

Katsuhiko Uemura

Kazuaki Kurohara

Hiroyuki Ogasawara

Takashi Fujii

Eriya Harada

Toshiki Kanai

Masatake Murakawa

Takeshi Komorida

Hiroshi Oshima

Shoso Ishimori

Tomohisa Yamamoto

Ryouzou Imanishi

Ryozo Imanishi

Koichiro Matsumoto

Takashi Shibata

Mikio Yuki

Ryo Matsumoto

Niro Bando

Tetsuaki Hayashi

Azusa Furihata

Hiroaki Kitaguchi

Akihito Mihara

Masayuki Akita

Hideya Umemoto

Hiroyuki Tada

Masaki Takaoka

Akira Minoura

Kazuo Koike

Yoshio Tomiyama

Hiroshi Kawabata

Takashi Kuramoto

Masatoshi Yamaguchi

Hironobu Nishihara

Masanori Fujino

Tomoyuki Morikawa

Tasuku Teraoka

Takashi Kumashiro

Masahiro Izumi

Fumihiro Ikeda

Tatsuki Kago

Yuto Akai

Hiroshi Itatani

Shinichiro Saji

Shoichiro Nagaishi

Terumasa Kobayashi

Yoshihisa Tonoya

Ryotaro Nakatsu

Masaji Kure

Junichi Yamanaka

Yuto Fujii

Arisa Kimura

Shozo Ishimori

Kazutomo Miyaguchi

Ryusuke Kawamoto

Yutaka Nakata

Seiya Sato

Makoto Odagiri

Masahiro Kabu

Yoji Fujihara

Mitsuaki Miyata

Tatsuro Tokunaga

Nobuhiko Amagata

Kentaro Habu

Takahiro Kasetani

Ryota Hirai

Taisuke Hashimoto

Atsushi Iizuka

A work unit to be attached to a lower side of a work vehicle that includes a wheel includes a work portion, a housing that covers the work portion, a bridge portion that is provided above the housing, auxiliary plates that change their positions between a state of being housed in the bridge portion and a state of protruding from the bridge portion, a linkage mechanism that is provided in the bridge portion and is connected to the auxiliary plates, and an operation tool for operating the linkage mechanism. As a result of operating the operation tool, the linkage mechanism is folded or unfolded, and positions of the auxiliary plates are changed between the state of being housed in the bridge portion and the state of protruding from the bridge portion.

Work unit with an auxiliary plate

There are included front and back slope portions attachable to and detachable from storage positions and use positions, front and back holding portions capable of engaging with engagement portions of the front and back slope portions as attached to the storage positions and holding the front and back slope portions at the storage positions, and a disengaging operation tool capable of being manually operated to a disengaging position at which the front holding portion and the back holding portion are releasable from the engagement portions of the front and back slope portions and at which the slope portions are detachable from the storage positions.

Mower

A work vehicle including: a vehicle body frame; a prime mover part located on a front or rear part of the vehicle body frame; a bonnet configured to open and close by swinging, and covering the prime mover part; and an assist unit configured to assist the bonnet to operate to open. A lateral end portion of the vehicle body frame is provided with a first linkage part with which the assist unit is linked. A lateral end portion of a lower end part of the bonnet, which is located closer to an end cover than the first linkage part is, is provided with a second linkage part with which the assist unit is linked. The assist unit is provided with an expansion/contraction mechanism biased so as to expand, and is located laterally outside the prime mover part and spans the first linkage part and the second linkage part.

Work vehicle

A work vehicle includes a riding-type traveling vehicle body and a hydraulically operable front loader coupled to a front of the traveling vehicle body. The traveling vehicle body includes left and right rear wheels disposed to the left and right of a driver seat, left and right rear fenders covering the left and right rear wheels, a valve unit for the front loader and an operating lever for the front loader. The valve unit is disposed in a space between the rear wheel and the rear fender on one of left and right sides, and the operating lever extends from the space, upward of the rear fender on the one of the left and right sides.

A tractor includes an engine that is mounted on a vehicle body frame, a hood that houses the engine and is configured to pivot about a front pivot in a top-bottom direction between a closed position at which the hood covers the engine, and an open position at which the hood exposes the engine, a mounting rubber that is provided between the engine and the vehicle body frame to support the engine in an anti-vibration manner, and a hood stay that supports the hood such that the hood is pivotable up/down about the front pivot. The hood stay includes an abutting-target portion against which the engine can abut from a rear side, to prevent the engine from swinging forward in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body.

Tractor

A work vehicle includes a front control tower provided forwardly of a driver's seat, a battery accommodated inside the front control tower, and a bottom member that provides a bottom of the front control tower. The battery is mounted on the bottom member.

A work vehicle includes: a vehicle body frame; a prime mover part that is supported by the vehicle body frame; a bonnet that is configured to vertically swing between a closed position at which the prime mover part is covered, and an open position at which the prime mover part is open; and a support frame that supports a free end side of the bonnet located at the closed position. At least left and right guide-target parts of the bonnet or left and right guiding parts of the support frame have left and right inclined surfaces that serve as centering effective surfaces.

A mower unit includes a housing, a pair of cutting blades arranged inside the housing, each of the cutting blades being rotatable about a respective vertical axis supported by the housing, the cutting blades being driven to be rotated in opposite directions, and a baffle arranged generally between rotation regions of the cutting blades to guide air flows generated by the cutting blades. The baffle defines an upper baffle portion located adjacent an upper region of the housing, a lower baffle portion located adjacent a lower region of the housing, and an air passage formed for allowing the air flows to flow between the upper baffle portion and lower baffle portion.

Mower unit

A mowed grass amount detecting apparatus for a grass collection container of a grass mowing includes a pivotal sensor plate () constituting a portion of a boundary wall for holding the mowed grass charged into the grass collection container. The pivotal sensor plate has a receiving face which receives the weight of mowed grass. The apparatus also includes a detecting unit () for detecting an amount of pivotal movement of the sensor plate () from a home position. The receiving face of the pivotal sensor plate () is configured so as to close a sensor opening portion formed downwardly of a mowed grass charging portion of the grass collection container communicated and connected with the conveying duct, so that the receiving face of the pivotal sensor plate receives the weight of mowed grass held within the grass collection container () through the sensor opening portion.

Mowed grass amount detecting apparatus for grass collection container of Grass Mowing Machine

A mower unit includes a mower deck, a plurality of blades mounted inside the mower deck and rotatable about vertical shafts supported to the mower deck, the mower deck defining, on one lateral side thereof, a discharge outlet for discharging cut grass cut by the plurality of blades, and an opening and closing member configured to be movable to a closing position for closing the discharge outlet and also to an opening position away from the discharge outlet for opening the discharge outlet, the opening and closing member at the opening position being disposed along an outer face of the mower deck.

A grass collector adapted to be attached to a rear of a riding-type mower for receiving cut grass from a mower unit through a duct, the grass collector including a front container section having a rearwardly facing opening and adapted to be attached to the riding-type mower, the front container section carrying a first bottom plate having a substantially horizontal position. A rear container section is supported pivotably about a pivot point located in a rear upper region of the front container section and pivotable between a first position wherein the rear container section substantially covers the opening of the front container section and a second position pivoted from the first position to allow cut grass to fall, the rear container section having a second bottom plate having a substantially horizontal position.

Grass collector for a mower

A riding type mower includes: a vehicle body, a driver's seat mounted on the vehicle body; an operation part arranged around the driver's seat; a mower unit provided on the vehicle body; a shutter for closing a discharge port; a shutter moving mechanism for moving the shutter between a close position closing the discharge port and an open position opening the discharge port; and a lock mechanism for locking the shutter at the close position. The mower unit includes: a mower deck; a cutting blade installed inside the mower deck; the discharge port formed in the mower deck, through which mown grass cut by the blade is discharge from the mower unit to outside. A shutter operating tool for remotely operating the shutter moving mechanism to open and close the shutter is provided in the operation part. The lock mechanism is remotely operable from the operation part.

Riding type mower

A grass collecting apparatus for a lawn mower comprises a frame () supported by a vehicle body, a container supporting member () for supporting a grass collecting container () for storing grass clippings and including a container supporting surface () for receiving an opening edge of the grass collecting container, and a container cover () mounted on the frame to be oscillatable about a horizontal axis between a closed position and an opened position. An engaging member () is mounted on the container cover (). The engaging member () is engageable with the opening edge () of the grass collecting container () with oscillation of the container cover () from the opened position to the closed position, thereby positioning and maintaining the grass collecting container () on the container supporting member (), and disengageable from the opening edge () of the grass collecting container () with oscillation of the container cover () from the closed position to the opened position.

Grass collecting apparatus for lawn mower

A mower includes a mower deck that opens downward; a plurality of vertical shafts rotatably supported by the mower deck; a plurality of cutting blades driven by the vertical shafts inside the mower deck; a cutting chamber formed inside the mower deck and provided for each cutting blade; and an opening formed between the cutting chambers for adjacent cutting blades. The cutting blades are arranged generally in a lateral direction with an adjacent pair of cutting blades being rotatably driven in opposite directions from each other. The opening allows for flow passage of cut grass at least from one of the cutting chambers to the other cutting chamber.

Mower having cutting chambers

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Izumi, Japan

Nobuyuki Yamashita