Patent ID: 7293625

Claim:
An operating lever device for a construction machine, comprising: a joystick lever used to issue drive commands to a plurality of driving bodies; a grip main body that is mounted at a front end of the joystick lever in such a manner that the grip main body does not rotate relative to the joystick lever; an operating member that is allowed to rotate relative to the grip main body and is rotated to adjust a prime mover rotation speed, with the operating lever device that has the operating member provided on each of a left side and a right side in an operator's cab of the construction machine; and an altering device that alters characteristics of a prime mover rotation speed command value corresponding to a prime mover rotation speed command signal in conformance to a rotating operation of the operating member, wherein: the altering device alters the characteristics of the prime mover rotation speed command value so as to increase the prime mover rotation speed when the operating member located on the left side in the operator's cab is rotated along one direction and also increases the prime mover rotation speed when the operating member located on the right side in the operator's cab is rotated along another direction.