Patent ID: 8480141

Claim:
A hood stay apparatus for an engine room in heavy construction equipment, the hood stay apparatus comprising: a stay rod having one end fixed to one side of a hood frame to support an open state of a hood; a rod guider provided with a guide rail fixedly installed on one side of the hood frame so that a slider on an opposed end of the stay rod slides along the guide rail; a support rod guider provided with a support rail attached adjacent to a rear catch part of the guide rail, and attached on an upper part of the guide rail so that one side of an outer periphery of the stay rod is guided into the support rail when the hood is opened; a control lever provided with a yoke coupled to a handle and one side of a pulling member, the handle being rotatably fixed to an upper part of the hood to generate a pulling force; and a locking stopper provided with a pulling arm coupled to the other side of the pulling member and a locking arm formed to extend from the pulling arm so as to rotate to be adjacent to the support rail, and selectively opening and closing the support rail when the locking arm is rotated by the pulling force generated by the control lever; wherein a hinge part is formed on the locking stopper, a support protrusion is formed to be radially apart from the locking arm around the hinge part, and an elastic member for rotating the locking arm is fixedly installed on the support protrusion.