Kubota Corporation

Takashi Yoshii

Masashi Osuga

Hiroshi Shimada

Yasuyuki Horii

Tomeaki Tama

Toshihiko Takemura

Hisato Katoh

Tetsu Fukui

Akio Hattori

Yoshinobu Murayama

Masayori Kajino

Humitoshi Iinuma

A tractor has a vehicle frame with a pair of right and left elongate frame members spaced from each other and extending in a longitudinal direction and interconnected in intermediate positions by a cross member, an engine supported by the elongate frame members in a front region of the vehicle frame, a rear axle unit connected to rear axle connecting members fixed to the elongate frame members in a rear region of the vehicle frame, and a drive transmitting mechanism for transmitting drive from the engine to the rear axle unit. A front loader and/or a backhoe are/is attachable to a front and a rear of the tractor as supported by the vehicle frame. A reinforcing frame unit is provided for reinforcing the vehicle frame. The reinforcing frame unit is connected to the vehicle frame by reinforcing frame connecting members spaced horizontally and/or vertically from the rear axle connecting members.

Tractor with a front loader and a backhoe attachable thereto

A tractor having a mid-mount type mower includes a pair of frames extending in a fore and aft direction, and a transmission case extending and supported between the pair of frames. The transmission case houses a power take off clutch disposed above a rear wheel differential. A change speed gearing mechanism is disposed between a front surface of the transmission case and the rear wheel differential. With such an arrangement of the components, the transmission case has a reduced length in the fore and aft direction.

Tractor

A tractor having a mid-mount type mower includes a pair of frames extending in a fore and aft direction, and a transmission case extending and supported between the pair of frames. The transmission case houses a power takeoff clutch disposed above a rear wheel differential. A change speed gearing mechanism is disposed between a front surface of the transmission case and the rear wheel differential. With such an arrangement of the components, the transmission case has a reduced length in the fore and aft direction.

Garden tractor

A propelling drive control apparatus for a working vehicle comprising hydraulically operable friction clutches, a first clutch control valve for selecting between the friction clutches, and a second clutch control valve connected in series to the first clutch control valve. The second clutch control valve is manually switchable to a declutching position for disengaging the friction clutches, a first clutch engaging position for engaging one of the friction clutches, and a second clutch engaging position intermediate between the declutching position the first clutch engaging position. In this second clutch engaging position one of the friction clutches is operable under a lower hydraulic pressure than in the first clutch engaging position.

Propelling drive control apparatus for working vehicle

A transmission system for a vehicle comprising a dry type clutch mechanism, a propelling line for driving ground engaging wheels, and a PTO line. The clutch mechanism includes a drive member connected to an engine output shaft, and a clutch plate movable into and out of friction engagement with the drive member. The propelling line includes an input shaft connected to the drive member, a shuttle shift mechanism having at least one oil clutch for establishing and breaking drive transmission from the input shaft, and a change speed mechanism for receiving drive from the shuttle shift mechanism. The PTO line includes a PTO line input shaft connected to the clutch plate of the dry type clutch mechanism.

Transmission system for vehicle

A transmission for a tractor comprising a propelling line for transmitting an engine output to drive wheels, and a power takeoff line for transmitting the engine output to a working implement attached to the tractor. The transmission further comprises a torque converter including a casing connected to an engine output shaft and an input shaft of the propelling line, and a turbine liner and a lockup clutch connected to an input shaft of the power takeoff line. The propelling line includes a first hydraulic clutch for transmitting the engine output in forward rotation and a second hydraulic clutch for transmitting the engine output in backward rotation, engine output transmission through the propelling line being broken when the first and second hydraulic clutches are disengaged. The power takeoff line includes a power takeoff hydraulic clutch, and a power takeoff gear disposed upstream of the hydraulic clutch for driving hydraulic pumps attached to a transmission case.

Tractor transmission

There is disclosed a control apparatus for a vehicle comprising a tiltable steering wheel. The control apparatus includes a hand lever tiltable in unison with the steering wheel and substantially on the same axis on which the steering wheel tilts. Operability of the hand lever is unaffected by tilted positions of the steering wheel and hand lever.

Control apparatus for vehicle

A front-wheel driving apparatus for use in tractors and the like has bevel-gear cases one each of which a front-wheel case is fitted for free rotation about a kingpin axis, the front-wheel case being adapted to support a front wheel and accommodate therein a bevel-gear train which is for incorporating the kingpin and the front wheel. Both upper and lower end portions of the kingpin are supported on the bevel-gear case via the respective bearings, and are provided with the respective bevel pinions as mounted thereon so as to exert axial thrusts on the kingpin in directions opposite to each other, and further with the respective thrust retainers as secured thereon for taking up any possible overall balance thrust. A hub base is consolidatedly incorporated in the front-wheel case, and on the hub base there is fitted, for free rotation, through a bevel gear fixture base a bevel gear which meshes with the lower bevel pinion on the kingpin. The front wheel is mounted on an outer end portion of the bevel gear fixture base.

Front-wheel driving apparatus

A change-speed apparatus for a tractor for transmitting engine power to running travel apparatuses via a main change-speed mechanism, an auxiliary change-speed mechanism and a forward-and-rearward-travel-shifter mechanism. These mechanisms are arranged in series in fore-and-aft direction of a machine body and a shifter lever for the said forward-and-rearward-travel-shifter mechanism is disposed in juxtaposition to a main change-speed lever for the said main change-speed mechansim.

Change-speed apparatus for a tractor

An agricultural tractor comprising differential case, a transmission case, a speed change case interposed between the two cases and directly coupled thereto, and a speed change mechanism contained in the speed change case and adapted to provide a great reduction ratio. The speed change case is not integral with the two other cases.

Agricultural tractor

For attaching an implement to an offset-type tractor with a top link and two lower links; a top-link-mounting bracket and a first and a second lower-link-mounting brackets are provided for the three links, respectively. The first lower-link-mounting bracket is fixed to an upper portion of an arm securely borne on and transversely protruding from a wall part of an offset transmission case of the tractor. The first lower-link-mounting bracket has on a lower portion thereof a first lower-link-mounting pin fixed thereto.

Growing community of inventors

Sakai, Japan

Takashi Yoshii