IP Library Granted Patent US 9,458,605
Granted Patent B2
US 9,458,605 · App. 14/504,678 · Granted Oct 4, 2016

Work vehicle

Inventors: Koji Hyodo (Kasumigaura, JP); Takashi Takeyama (Ryugasaki, JP); Tetsuji Tanaka (Abiko, JP); Isamu Aoki (Tsukuba, JP); Katsutaka Hara (Toride, JP); Tatsuo Oouchi (Ryugasaki, JP)
Assignees: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.; KABUSHIKI KAISHA KCM
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,458,605
App. No.
14/504,678
Granted
Oct 4, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A work vehicle including a front work device, contains: a variable displacement hydraulic pump that is driven by an engine and supplies pressure oil to an actuator that drives the front work device; an exhaust gas purification device that purifies nitrogen oxide in exhaust gas discharged from the engine using a reducing agent solution stored in a reducing agent tank; a remaining amount detection device that detects a remaining amount of the reducing agent solution in the reducing agent tank; and a control unit that decreases output torque of the engine and also decreases a rotational speed of the engine in a rated point according to decrease of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device.

Claims (20)

1. A work vehicle including a front work device, comprising:

a variable displacement hydraulic pump that is driven by an engine and supplies pressure oil to an actuator that drives the front work device;

an exhaust gas purification device that purifies nitrogen oxide in exhaust gas discharged from the engine using a reducing agent solution stored in a reducing agent tank;

a remaining amount detection device that detects a remaining amount of the reducing agent solution in the reducing agent tank;

a control unit that controls the engine with an engine output characteristic in which output torque of the engine is decreased and also a rotational speed of the engine is decreased in a rated point according to a decrease of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device; and

a rotational speed detection unit that detects an actual rotational speed of the engine, wherein

when the actual rotational speed of the engine detected by the rotational speed detection unit is not more than a first threshold value, the control unit does not decrease the output torque of the engine regardless of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device, and

the control unit sets a maximum absorption torque of the hydraulic pump to be a minimum in a range where the actual rotational speed of the engine detected by the rotational speed detection unit is less than a second threshold value, sets the maximum absorption torque of the hydraulic pump to be a maximum in a range where the actual rotational speed of the engine is not less than a third threshold value, and gradually increases the maximum absorption torque of the hydraulic pump according to rise of the actual rotational speed in a range where the actual rotational speed of the engine is not less than the second threshold value and less than the third threshold value.

2. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

the output torque of the engine is decreased in stages according to the decrease of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device.

3. A work vehicle including a front work device, comprising:

a variable displacement hydraulic pump that is driven by an engine and supplies pressure oil to an actuator that drives the front work device;

an exhaust gas purification device that purifies nitrogen oxide in exhaust gas discharged from the engine using a reducing agent solution stored in a reducing agent tank;

a remaining amount detection device that detects a remaining amount of the reducing agent solution in the reducing agent tank;

a control unit that decreases output torque of the engine and also decreases a rotational speed of the engine in a rated point according to decrease of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device; and

a rotational speed detection unit that detects an actual rotational speed of the engine, wherein

when the actual rotational speed of the engine detected by the rotational speed detection unit is not more than a first threshold value, the control unit does not decrease the output torque of the engine regardless of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device, and

the control unit sets maximum absorption torque of the hydraulic pump to be a minimum in a range where the actual rotational speed of the engine detected by the rotational speed detection unit is less than a second threshold value, sets the maximum absorption torque of the hydraulic pump to be a maximum in a range where the actual rotational speed of the engine is not less than a third threshold value, and gradually increases the maximum absorption torque of the hydraulic pump according to rise of the actual rotational speed in a range where the actual rotational speed of the engine is not less than the second threshold value and less than the third threshold value.

4. The work vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein

the output torque of the engine is decreased in stages according to the decrease of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device.

Assignments (3)
MERGER Recorded Aug 19, 2019
From: KCM CORPORATION
To: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 050088/0068 →
MERGER Recorded Feb 24, 2017
From: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
To: KCM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 041806/0087 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 2, 2014
From: HYODO, KOJI; TAKEYAMA, TAKASHI; TANAKA, TETSUJI; AOKI, ISAMU; HARA, KATSUTAKA; OOUCHI, TATSUO
To: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.; KABUSHIKI KAISHA KCM
Reel/Frame 033877/0064 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-208251 · Oct 3, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
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