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Granted Patent B2
US 11,889,779 · App. 17/051,818 · Granted Feb 6, 2024

Work vehicle

Inventor: Shinji Misaki (Sakai, JP)
Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
A01B69/008B62D15/025B62D49/00G05D1/0061B60Y2200/221G05D2201/0201
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Patent No.
US 11,889,779
App. No.
17/051,818
Granted
Feb 6, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A work vehicle includes an automatic steering switching tool to start or end automatic steering of a vehicle body and a setting operation tool to select a setting for the automatic steering of the vehicle body. The automatic steering switching tool and the setting operation tool are positioned at an upper portion of a steering tower and below a steering wheel.

Claims (15)

1. A work vehicle, comprising:

a steering wheel to steer a vehicle body of the work vehicle;

a steering tower for which the steering wheel is provided;

an automatic steering switching lever to start or end automatic steering of the vehicle body; and

a setting switch to select a setting for the automatic steering of the vehicle body; wherein

the automatic steering switching lever and the setting switch are at an upper portion of the steering tower and below the steering wheel.

2. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the setting switch is on a side of a rotation axis of the steering wheel on which side a driver's seat is present.

3. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the setting switch includes a plurality of operation switches arranged laterally.

4. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a forward-reverse switching lever to switch a travel direction of the vehicle body between a forward travel and a reverse travel; wherein

the automatic steering switching lever and the forward-reverse switching lever are on one side of the rotation axis of the steering wheel in a left-right direction of the vehicle body.

5. The work vehicle according to claim 4 , wherein the automatic steering switching lever and the forward-reverse switching lever are present at respective positions different from each other in a front-back direction of the vehicle body.

6. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a display to display information on the automatic steering of the vehicle body; wherein

the display is forward of the steering wheel.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 11, 2021
From: MISAKI, SHINJI
To: KUBOTA CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-238887 · Dec 20, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20210360843A1 · Nov 25, 2021
Cited By (1)
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