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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1998
Komatsu Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is a crawler device for a crawler type vehicle, which lowers the vehicle height, decreases the vehicle width, and exhibits superior stability during operation. For this purpose, in a crawler type vehicle having, on right and left sides of either one of front or rear portion, or both of the front and rear portions of a vehicle body ( ), crawler devices each having a sprocket ( ), an idler ( A) disposed on a truck frame ( ), and a crawler belt ( ) passed around the sprocket ( ) and the idler ( A), the crawler device includes a front end link ( ) coupled to a forward part of said truck frame ( ) by means of a pin ( D) at a lower end portion thereof and to the side of said vehicle body ( ) by means of a pin ( U) at the upper end portion thereof, and a rear end link ( ) coupled to a rearward part of said truck frame ( ) by means of a pin ( D) at the lower end portion thereof and to said side of said vehicle body ( ) at a position behind said front end link ( ) by means of a pin ( U) at the upper end portion thereof.