Kubota Corporation

Norifumi Adachi

Toshiya Fukumoto

Daisuke Yasunobe

Akiyoshi Ono

Hisashi Tsukatani

Mamoru Kawaguchi

Takahiro Hisada

Mitsuhisa Kanata

Hisahi Tsukatani

A merge and discharge unit has: a reservoir unit in which fuel can be collected; a first merge unit for merging into the reservoir unit the fuel from an upstream site upstream of the merge and discharge unit on a fuel supply route; a second merge unit for merging into the reservoir unit the fuel from a first fuel return route; a first discharge unit for discharging a portion of the fuel of the reservoir unit into a downstream site downstream of the merge and discharge unit on the fuel supply route; and a second discharge unit for discharging a remaining portion of the fuel of the reservoir unit into a second fuel return route.

Device for supplying fuel to engine

A change-speed system for a utility vehicle includes a gear change-speed device operated for change speed in response to an operation of an actuator, a hydraulic clutch for selectively engaging/disengaging power transmission to the gear change-speed device, a current-controlled valve mechanism for feeding pressure oil to the hydraulic clutch and a hydraulic clutch controlling portion for controlling oil pressure in the hydraulic clutch by controlling a value of electric current to the valve mechanism. The hydraulic clutch controlling portion is operable to initiate a disengaging process of the hydraulic clutch based on initiation of the operation of the actuator and operable also to initiate an engaging process of the hydraulic clutch based on completion of the operation of the actuator. The engaging process of the hydraulic clutch includes a first engaging sub-process for rapidly raising the oil pressure to the hydraulic clutch for a predetermined period and a second engaging sub-process for gradually raising the oil pressure to the hydraulic clutch which has been temporarily dropped subsequent to the first sub-process. There is provided a manual setting device for adjusting the value of the electric current to the valve mechanism from the hydraulic clutch controlling portion in the second engaging sub-process.

Change-speed system for utility vehicle

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Sakai, Japan

Norifumi Adachi