Patent ID: 7131422
Filing Date: 2006-11-07
Classification: B60R,E02F

Abstract:
1. A construction machine comprising: an engine guard having an engine compartment, an intake opening, and an exhaust opening for an exhaust gas, the engine compartment accommodating an engine; the engine, a cooling fan, and a device for being cooled by the cooling fan, the engine being accommodated in the engine guard and disposed in a widthwise direction of the machine; and an exhaust duct for discharging the exhaust gas disposed above and behind the engine in the engine compartment, parallel with the flow of a fan air by the cooling fan which has been used for cooling the engine, and substantially horizontally, the exhaust duct having an exit connected to the exhaust opening, wherein the fan air introduced from the intake opening flows along the cooling fan, the engine, and the exhaust duct and is discharged from the exhaust opening, wherein a hydraulic pump is disposed behind the engine, and the exhaust duct is disposed above the hydraulic pump.