Patent ID: 11912350
Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A work vehicle, comprising:
a steering wheel to steer a vehicle body of the work vehicle;
a steering shaft connected with the steering wheel, extending downward from the steering wheel, and rotatable in response to turning of the steering wheel;
a steering tower for which the steering wheel and the steering shaft are provided;
an automatic steering mechanism to automatically steer the vehicle body so that the vehicle body travels on a target travel path;
an automatic steering switching lever to start or end automatic steering of the vehicle body; and
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 mechanism includes a motor to drive the steering shaft to rotate;
the automatic steering mechanism is in the steering tower;
the motor is under the steering wheel and laterally adjacent to the steering shaft; and
the automatic steering switching lever and the forward-reverse switching lever are both positioned (i) at an upper portion of the steering tower, and (ii) on one side of a rotation axis of the steering wheel in a left-right direction of the vehicle body, and are located at respective positions different from each other in a front-back direction of the vehicle body.