US 7,523,804 B2
Small swing type shovel
Kiyokazu Tanaka, Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Shintaro Sakitani, Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Takayuki Okunishi, Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Hiroshi Morita, Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Hiroshi Shimokakiuchi, Hiroshima-shi (Japan); and Yoshiyasu Umezu, Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Assigned to Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/506,615
PCT Filed Mar. 20, 2003, PCT No. PCT/JP03/03391
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 13, 2004,
PCT Pub. No. WO03/080945, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 02, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-085313 (JP), filed on Mar. 26, 2002; application No. 2002-085314 (JP), filed on Mar. 26, 2002; and application No. 2002-089140 (JP), filed on Mar. 27, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2005/0166429 A1, Aug. 04, 2005
Int. Cl. B60K 15/00 (2006.01); B60P 1/30 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 180—291  [298/9] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A small swing type excavator, wherein an upper rotating body is mounted rotatably around a vertical shaft on a lower traveling body, rotating radius of a rear end of said upper rotating body being set to about one half of the width of said lower traveling body and devices being mounted on a rotating frame of said upper rotating body, comprising:
an operator cab disposed on one lateral side on said rotating frame,
an air conditioner and a fuel tank provided, respectively, on an inner and an outer side in the width direction of the excavator and in a space under a floor of said operator cab,
wherein said fuel tank comprises an extension portion extending to at least the front surface of said air conditioner.