Patent ID: 7735609

Claim:
An industrial vehicle driven by an engine, the industrial vehicle comprising: a lift device, or a loading actuator, that operates to selectively raise and lower an object carried by the industrial vehicle; a lift operating portion by which the lift device is operated, the lift operating portion is driven by the engine; a lift operation detecting portion that detects whether the lift operating portion has been operated; a traveling mechanism that is driven by the engine causing the industrial vehicle to travel; a direction lever that is switched among a proceed position at which the industrial vehicle is caused to proceed, a reverse position at which the industrial vehicle is caused to reverse, and a neutral position between the proceed position and the reverse position; a direction lever position detecting portion that detects the position of the direction lever; a torque converter that transmits power from the engine to the traveling mechanism; an inching pedal by which the torque converter is operated to adjust the power transmission; an inching pedal detecting portion that detects an operation of the inching pedal, the operation of the inching pedal indicating a non-traveling operation; and an upper limit setting portion that selectively sets, as an upper limit of an acceptable speed range of the engine, a first engine speed upper limit and a second engine speed upper limit, the second engine speed upper limit being greater than the first engine speed upper limit, wherein the upper limit setting portion sets the second engine speed upper limit when the lift operation detecting portion has detected operation of the lift operating portion, and the direction lever position detecting portion has detected that the direction lever has been switched to the neutral position, or the inching pedal detecting portion detects the operation of the inching pedal, and wherein the upper limit setting portion sets the first engine speed upper limit in a case that the direction lever has not been switched to the neutral position and the inching pedal has not been operated.