IP Library Granted Patent US 9,473,055
Granted Patent B2
US 9,473,055 · App. 13/967,937 · Granted Oct 18, 2016

Electric working machine

Inventors: Tatsuya Ito (Ibaraki, JP); Mizuho Nakamura (Ibaraki, JP); Yoshio Iimura (Ibaraki, JP); Tomomasa Nishikawa (Ibaraki, JP)
Assignee: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
H02P7/14H02P7/285
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Patent No.
US 9,473,055
App. No.
13/967,937
Granted
Oct 18, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electric working machine including: an input part; a control unit configured to control a motor in accordance with an operation amount of the input part; and a switching part; wherein, when a predetermined operation is performed to the switching part, the control unit shifts to a fixed control mode in which the motor is controlled in accordance with an operation amount of the input part at the time when the predetermined operation is performed to the switching part, irrespective of an operation amount of the input part after the predetermined operation is performed to the switching part.

Claims (10)

1. An electric working machine comprising:

a control unit configured to control a brushless motor at a set rotational speed;

a motor control circuit including a switch element; and

an input part which can be operated by a user to set a rotational speed;

wherein the control unit is configured to control the brushless motor by a set rotational speed corresponding to an operated position of the input part, such that the rotational speed is maintained when the operated position is maintained,

wherein, when the set rotational speed corresponding to the operated position of the input part is within a predetermined rotational speed range where a noise value becomes large as compared to noise values in surrounding rotational speeds, the control unit is configured to control the brushless motor by an alternative rotational speed which is set so as to avoid the predetermined rotational speed range by controlling a duty ratio of a drive signal applied to the motor control circuit, and

wherein, between a maximum rotational speed that can be set by the input part and a minimum rotational speed that can be set by the input part, there exists a plurality of the predetermined rotational speed ranges where the noise value becomes large as compared to the noise values in the surrounding rotational speeds.

2. The electric working machine according to claim 1

wherein, when a first rotational speed corresponding to the operated position of the input part is out of the predetermined rotational speed range, the control unit controls the rotational speed of the brushless motor by the first rotational speed corresponding to the operated position of the input part, and

wherein, when a second rotational speed corresponding to the operated position of the input part is within the predetermined rotational speed range, the control unit controls the rotational speed of the brushless motor by a rotational speed out of the predetermined rotational range.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 26, 2018
From: HITACHI KOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: KOKI HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 047270/0107 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 20, 2013
From: ITO, TATSUYA; NAKAMURA, MIZUHO; IIMURA, YOSHIO; NISHIKAWA, TOMOMASA
To: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 031044/0017 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2012-181348 · Aug 20, 2012 · national
Continuity (1)
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