Patent ID: 8376817

Claim:
An air conditioning system for a cabin of a work vehicle, the cabin comprising: a driver's seat ( 12 ) positioned within the cabin ( 1 ); a roof ( 7 ); an air-conditioning duct ( 15 ) located inside the roof ( 7 ); an air conditioning unit (A) located inside the roof ( 7 ) for conditioning air and for feeding air-conditioned air into the air-conditioning duct ( 15 ); and a structural framework (B), wherein the air conditioning unit (A) is located rearward of a rearward end of a seat portion of the driver's seat ( 12 ), the structural frame (B) includes right and left vertical frames ( 2 ) located at the rearmost portion of the structural frame (B), a transverse frame ( 6 B), and right and left fore-and-aft frames ( 6 A) located at corresponding right and left side portions of the roof ( 7 ), each of the right and left vertical frames ( 2 ) having a top end portion being located at a height level higher than the right and left fore-and-aft frames ( 6 A), and the top end portions of the right and left vertical frames being connected by a suspending frame portion ( 6 D) extending therebetween, the transverse frame ( 6 B) extends between the top end portions of the vertical frames ( 2 ) at a height level higher than the fore-and-aft frames ( 6 A), and the air conditioning unit (A) is supported by a lower portion of the transverse frame ( 6 B) so that the air conditioning unit (A) is positioned between the right and left vertical frames ( 2 ), and the suspending frame portion ( 6 D) is positioned above at least a portion of the top surface of the air conditioning unit ( 2 ).