Kubota Corporation

Subaru Corporation

Noriyasu Honjo

Hiroki Bessho

Jun Yoshida

Takeshi Satozono

Hiroshi Takagi

Tatsuya Tsuji

Kensuke Okabe

Hiroaki Kitaguchi

Toshiki Ono

Masashi Inoue

Yusuke Endo

Makoto Kuwatoh

Rihito Fukuda

A utility vehicle includes a driver section configured to accommodate an occupant and an entrance door including an inner face portion facing the driver section, an outer face portion opposite to the driver section, and an opening extending from the inner face portion through to the outer face portion. The entrance door is configured to expose and block an entrance of the driver section. A lock mechanism is configured to hold the entrance door in a closed state, and a single operation member is disposed at the opening for use to release the entrance door from the lock mechanism.

Utility vehicle

A vehicle includes a body holding device configured to hold the body of a seated driver; a travel control unit configured to drive the vehicle body so that it travels; and a maximum vehicle speed setting unit configured to set a set maximum vehicle speed. The travel control unit controls an output from the driving unit based on the operation amount of an accelerator device if the vehicle speed is lower than the set maximum vehicle speed, and restricts the output from the driving unit irrespective of the operation amount of the accelerator device if the vehicle speed is equal to or higher than the set maximum vehicle speed. The maximum vehicle speed setting unit sets, if it is detected that the body holding device is worn, a first vehicle speed as the set maximum vehicle speed, and sets, if it is detected that the body holding device is not worn, a second vehicle speed lower than the first vehicle speed as the set maximum vehicle speed.

Vehicle with maximum vehicle speed setting unit

A work vehicle includes a stepless speed changer device having a drive pulley receiving input of power of an engine, a driven pulley, and an endless rotary body wound around and entrained between the the drive pulley and the driven pulley and an accommodating body having an accommodation space for accommodating the drive pulley, the driven pulley and the endless rotary body. The accommodation space includes an air passage for causing air introduced from the outside to flow from the driven pulley side to the drive pulley side to be eventually discharged to the outside.

Work vehicle

A traveling control section of a traveling vehicle is configured to effect a normal operation to control an output of an engine when a vehicle speed is below a set vehicle speed, such that the engine output may correspond to an operation amount of an accelerator operating tool and to effect an output suppressing operation when the vehicle speed is equals to or more than the set vehicle speed, such that the vehicle speed may stay below the set vehicle speed, irrespectively of the operation amount of the accelerator operating tool. A fuel ratio in an air-fuel ratio in the output suppressing operation is set smaller than a fuel ratio in an air-fuel ratio in the normal operation.

Traveling vehicle

There are provided an intake pressure detecting means for detecting an intake pressure on more downstream side than a throttle valve in an intake passage to an engine, a rotational speed detecting means for detecting a rotational speed of an engine, an engine controlling means for controlling the engine to arrive at a target air-fuel ratio corresponding to the detected intake pressure and the detected engine rotational speed and an abnormality treating means for executing an engine stopping treatment to stop the engine if an intake pressure higher than a set pressure has been detected and an engine rotational speed higher than a set rotational speed has been detected, when an opening degree state detecting means detects that the throttle valve is under a fully closed or substantially fully closed state.

A multipurpose vehicle includes an engine that has a plurality of cylinders, a traveling vehicle body that has a traveling device that is driven based on a driving force of the engine, a man-operable accelerator operating tool, a controller that controls a fuel injection quantity with respect to the plurality of cylinders of the engine based on an amount of operation of the accelerator operating tool, and a vehicle speed sensor that detects a traveling speed of the traveling vehicle body. If the traveling speed of the traveling vehicle body reaches or exceeds a set maximum traveling speed, the controller suppresses the fuel injection quantity supplied with respect only to one/some of the plurality of cylinders, irrespective of the amount of operation of the accelerator operating tool.

Multipurpose vehicle

A work vehicle having a belt type stepless speed changing mechanism includes a rotation detecting section for detecting an engine rotational speed, a vehicle speed detecting section for detecting a vehicle speed of a traveling vehicle body and an informing section configured to effect an alarm informing for alarming wear of a drive belt if a vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed detecting section is a predetermined vehicle speed deviates from a preset permissible range.

A utility vehicle provided with an engine in a rear portion of a vehicle body is disclosed. The engine is provided with a cylinder head, and has an exhaust gas outlet port formed to be open in a front surface of the engine. An exhaust pipe extends forward from the exhaust gas outlet port, then curves, and extends rearward. A cover that covers a front portion of the exhaust pipe includes: a front-side portion that covers a front side of the front portion of the exhaust pipe; an upper-side portion that extends rearward from an upper end portion of the front-side portion and covers an upper side of the front portion of the exhaust pipe; and an extension portion that extends rearward from a rear end portion of the upper-side portion and covers an upper side of a front portion of the cylinder head.

A multipurpose vehicle includes an engine, a fuel supply unit that supplies fuel to the engine, a gear transmission device that changes speed of power from the engine through a shifting operation, a coupling state detection sensor that detects a coupling state of the gear transmission device, a determination unit that determines whether the coupling state is an incomplete coupling state based on a detection signal from the coupling state detection sensor, and a fuel supply control unit that executes a fuel cut to reduce a fuel supply amount of the fuel from the fuel supply unit to the engine to a value less than a reference value, if the determination unit determines that the coupling state is the incomplete coupling state.

A work vehicle includes a stepless speed changer device having a drive pulley receiving input of power of an engine, a driven pulley, and an endless rotary body wound around and entrained between the drive pulley and the driven pulley and an accommodating body having an accommodation space for accommodating the drive pulley, the driven pulley and the endless rotary body. The accommodation space includes an air passage for causing air introduced from the outside to flow from the driven pulley side to the drive pulley side to be eventually discharged to the outside.

A work vehicle includes a travelling state determination unit capable of determining a travelling state of a travelling body, and a control unit that restricts, if it has been determined by the travelling state determination unit that the travelling body is in a reverse travelling state, an upper limit value of a target rotational speed of an engine that is based on an operation on an accelerator operation tool to be a lower value than in a case where it has been determined by the travelling state determination unit that the travelling body is in a forward travelling state.

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Sakai, Japan

Noriyasu Honjo