Patent ID: 9561826
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: B62D,E02F,E05C,E05D,Y10T

Claim:
1. An apparatus for opening and closing an engine hood for a construction machine, in which an engine room is mounted on an upper swing structure and the engine hood is mounted on a cowl frame that forms the engine room to be opened and closed through a gas spring, comprising: a frame having a first side fixed to the upper swing structure and a second side fixed to the cowl frame; a stay rod having a free end slidably positioned along a guide rail, and a fixed end rotatably fixed to the engine hood; the guide rail fixed to one of the first side or the second side, and having a guide groove formed in a length direction and a plurality of seat portions downwardly formed to be separately situated in the guide groove so as to communicate with the guide groove, thus maintaining the stay rod in a predetermined opening angle that is to be adjusted with the plurality of seat portions, separately; the plurality of seat portions formed on the guide rail include: the first seat portion and the second seat portion extend from a first side of the guide groove which is opposite to a second side of the guide groove, the first side of the guide groove is further from the engine hood than the second side of the guide groove; the guide groove formed on the guide rail includes: