Patent ID: 7204047

Claim:
A compact excavator comprising: an upper rotating body mounted rotatably on a lower traveling body; an engine mounted on a rear section of said upper rotating body, and arranged in a state where a drive shaft thereof is oriented in a transverse direction of the excavator; a hydraulic pump connected to said drive shaft; a hydraulic device arranged on an opposite side of said hydraulic pump in the transverse direction on an outer periphery side of said upper rotating body; a sound attenuating barrier disposed on a front side of said engine across the width of the excavator, said sound attenuating barrier having a portion displaced in a longitudinal direction of the excavator, which longitudinal direction is perpendicular to the transverse direction, thereby providing a discontinuity in the sound attenuating barrier extending in the longitudinal direction; and a blocking portion arranged at said discontinuity so as to block said discontinuity, said blocking portion having a through hole into which a conduit extended from said hydraulic pump and communicating with said hydraulic device is inserted.