Engine enclosure for an agricultural machine

US11858556B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AGCO International GmbH · CH

Inventors

• Markus Bräutigam · Immelborn, DE
• Andreas Kleinhenz · Füssen, DE
• Franz Erhard · Seeg, DE
• Thomas Maier · Grimmen, DE
• Simon Brack · Marktoberdorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 23, 2021
• Grant date: Jan 2, 2024
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60Y2200/221
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A hood assembly for an agricultural vehicle such as a farm tractor has a first hood panel and a second hood panel pivotably attached to the first hood panel and movable from a first closed position to a second open position relative to the first hood panel. The first hood panel is an elongate body mounted above an engine of the vehicle and having a front end and a rear end joined by two side portions. The second hood panel wraps around the front end of the first hood panel and extends along the two sides thereof to respective pivotal attachments. The attachments have a common pivot axis which traverses the first hood panel in spaced-apart relation to the first hood panel front end. Opening the second hood panel provides maintenance access to a cooling package of the vehicle without opening or disassembling the remainder of the hood assembly.