Patent ID: 9699961
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A01D

Claim:
1. A mowing vehicle comprising: a driving wheel unit that is driven by a travel driving mechanism; a traveling state detection portion that detects a traveling state including traveling and stopping of the vehicle; a mower unit that is supported by the vehicle; a raising/lowering mechanism that changes a height of the mower unit with respect to ground; a mowing blade driving mechanism that drives a mowing blade of the mower unit; a raising/lowering control portion that provides, to the raising/lowering mechanism, a raising/lowering control signal for changing the height of the mower unit with respect to the ground between an operation height and a non-operation height, the operation height being a height with respect to the ground suitable for mowing and including a lowest height, and the non-operation height being a height with respect to the ground unsuitable for mowing and including a highest height; a mowing blade driving control portion that controls driving of the mowing blade; a mower unit state detection portion that detects a state of the mower unit including the height of the mower unit with respect to the ground and driving or stopping of the mowing blade; and a management portion that provides control instructions to the raising/lowering control portion and the mowing blade driving control portion based on the traveling state detected by the traveling state detection portion and the state of the mower unit detected by the mower unit state detection portion.