Operator's seat for heavy equipment having optimized switch arrangements for controlling the equipment
View Patent ↗An operator's seat for heavy equipment having optimized switch arrangements for controlling the equipment is provided, in which arrangements of various kinds of switches and components of operating devices that are frequently used by an operator in the seat due to the characteristic of the equipment are integrated within a radius that an operator's hand reaches (i.e. in a hand arm operation zone), and thus physical inconvenience and fatigue that the operator who repeatedly operates working devices for a long time suffers can be reduced. The operator's seat for heavy equipment includes a switch instrument installed within a radius that a hand of an operator sitting in the operator's seat reaches, a control lever mounted on a specified position of the switch instrument to control operations of working devices, and switches arranged on the switch instrument in closest proximity to the control lever so that the operator in the operator's seat can operate the switches in the closest position in which the operator does not invade a control stroke zone of the control lever.
1. An operator's seat for equipment having optimized switch arrangements for controlling the equipment, comprising:
a switch instrument installed within a radius that a hand of an operator sitting in the operator's seat reaches;
a control lever mounted on a specified position of the switch instrument to control operations of working devices; and
switches arranged on the switch instrument in close proximity to the control lever so that the operator in the operator's seat can operate the switches in a close position in which the operator does not invade a control stroke zone of the control lever,
wherein the switches include at least an engine RPM mode switch, operating switches of the equipment, and a display mode switch
and wherein the control lever is mounted on the switch instrument near the operator in the operator's seat, the engine RPM mode switch is arranged on the right side of the control lever, the operating switches are arranged in the front of the engine RPM mode switch, and the display mode switch is arranged at the rear of the engine RPM mode switch.
2. The operator's seat of claim 1 , further comprising a cup holder installed in a specified position of the switch instrument.
3. The operator's seat of claim 1 , wherein the control lever and the switches are installed in a hand arm operation zone of the operator in the operator's seat.