Patent ID: 7833300

Claim:
A mounting structure of filter for a cooler of a construction machine having an upper rotating body disposed on a lower traveling body, the mounting structure being detachably mounted on a front surface side of the cooler installed in an engine room of the upper rotating body, the mounting structure comprising: a filter mounting portion provided on the front surface side of the cooler, the filter mounting portion being provided with a filter abutment surface with which the filter may be brought into abutment from the front side of the filter mounting portion; an external body forming the engine room, the external body being provided with a maintenance port into or from which the filter is inserted or taken out; and an elastic body for exerting an elastic force in the direction of fixing a position of the filter inserted from the maintenance port to said filter mounting portion in a state that the filter is pressed onto the filter abutment surface, wherein said elastic body is provided on one of the filter and the filter mounting portion, and wherein an elastic body protecting member is provided on the other of the filter and the filter mounting portion, wherein the elastic body presses against the elastic body protecting member at a time when the filter is being inserted, whereby the elastic body is deformed to generate a restoring force, the restoring force having a component comprising a pressing force acting in a direction of pressing the filter onto the filter abutment surface, and further having a component comprising a position fixing force acting in a direction perpendicular to the pressing force for fixing the position of the filter on the filter mounting portion.