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

Claim 4:
5. 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 (i) a motor to drive the steering shaft to rotate, (ii) a gear mechanism to transmit a driving force of the motor to the steering shaft, and (iii) a gear case containing the gear mechanism;
the automatic steering mechanism is in the steering tower;
the gear case is under the steering wheel and shifted to a first side in a left-right direction of the vehicle body with respect to a rotation axis of the steering wheel; 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 the rotation axis of the steering wheel in the 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.