Patent ID: 7331412

Claim:
A vehicle, comprising: a prime mover; a pair of drive wheels; a pair of transmissions for driving said respective drive wheels; a traveling operation device for setting a traveling speed of said vehicle and selecting a traveling direction of said vehicle between forward and rearward directions, wherein said traveling operation device is operationally connected with said pair of transmissions so as to drive said drive wheels at a common speed and in a common direction; a steering wheel for turning said vehicle leftward or rightward, wherein said steering wheel is operationally connected with said pair of transmissions; switching means for switching said traveling direction of said vehicle between forward and rearward directions based on the traveling direction selected by said traveling operation device; a reversing means provided to said pair of transmissions so as to reverse driving directions of said respective drive wheels in correspondence to the switching operation of said switching means, so that, when said steering wheel is rotated, one of said drive wheels at the same side of said vehicle with the rotation direction of said steering wheel is decelerated and the other of said drive wheels at the opposite side of said vehicle to the rotation direction of said steering wheel is accelerated regardless of whether said traveling operation device selects said forward direction or said rearward direction; a common input shaft shared between said transmissions to receive power of said prime mover; and a pair of input shafts of said respective transmissions, wherein said reversing means extends between said common input shaft and said pair of input shafts of said respective transmissions.