Patent ID: 7367611

Claim:
A construction machine comprising: a cabin; a front window for closing a front opening of the cabin; and a front-window opening/closing device for opening and closing the front window between a closed position of the front window and an opened position along a ceiling of the cabin, wherein the front-window opening/closing device comprises: an upper guide roller provided in an upper part of the front window; a lower guide roller provided in a lower part of the front window; a roller guide rail disposed in the cabin and guiding the upper guide roller and lower guide roller; a wire guide rail disposed in the cabin and along the roller guide rail; and assisting means in which the upper guide roller, the lower guide roller, and the roller guide rail allow the front window to move between the closed position and the opened position, while tension of an assist wire moving in the wire guide rail pulls the front window toward the opened position, and wherein a link is provided in the upper part of the front window such that: (A) an upper end of the link is connected to the front window so as to allow the link to pivot about a substantially horizontal link shaft in a horizontal direction of the front window; (B) a lower end of the link is movable in the wire guide rail; and (C) the link is raised when the front window is closed, while the assist wire is connected to the lower end of the link in the wire guide rail and, when the front window is closed, a straight line connecting a center of the link shaft with a connecting point at which the assist wire is connected to the lower end of the link is tilted forward from an action line of tension applied by the assist wire to the lower end of the link.