IP Library Granted Patent US 9,617,716
Granted Patent B2
US 9,617,716 · App. 14/505,685 · Granted Apr 11, 2017

Work vehicle

Inventors: Koji Hyodo (Kasumigaura, JP); Atsushi Shimazu (Toride, JP); Masashi Yamashita (Ushiku, JP); Tetsuji Tanaka (Abiko, JP); Isamu Aoki (Tsukuba, JP); Shoroku Kawahara (Ushiku, JP)
Assignee: KCM Corporation
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Patent No.
US 9,617,716
App. No.
14/505,685
Granted
Apr 11, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A work vehicle includes: a hydraulic pump driven by an engine; a rotational speed detection unit that detects an actual rotational speed of the engine; 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 torque control unit that decreases output torque of the engine according to decrease of a detected remaining amount of the reducing agent solution; and a storage device that stores a threshold value not less than an engine rotational speed at which the hydraulic pump starts discharge, wherein when the actual rotational speed of the engine is not more than the threshold value, the torque 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.

Claims (21)

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

a traveling drive pump and a working pump driven by an engine;

a hydraulic motor that is connected to the traveling drive pump in a closed circuit and is driven by pressure oil discharged from the traveling drive pump;

an actuator that is connected to the working pump and drives the front work device by pressure oil discharged from the working pump;

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

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 torque control unit that controls output torque of the engine according to decrease of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device, wherein

a threshold value as to a rotational speed of the engine is set for the torque control unit to control the output torque of the engine,

an engine rotational speed at which the traveling drive pump starts discharge is set to be not less than a low-idle rotational speed of the engine,

the threshold value is set to be not less than the engine rotational speed at which the traveling drive pump starts discharge, and

when the actual rotational speed of the engine detected by the rotational speed detection unit is not more than the threshold value, the torque 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.

2. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

the torque control unit controls the output torque of the engine in stages and also decreases the threshold value according to the decrease of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device.

3. The work vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the torque control unit controls the output torque of the engine and also decreases a rotational speed of the engine in a rated point according to the decrease of the remaining amount of the reducing agent solution detected by the remaining amount detection device.

4. The work vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein the working pump is a fixed displacement hydraulic pump that supplies pressure oil to the actuator that drives the front work device.

5. The work vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the working pump is a fixed displacement hydraulic pump that supplies pressure oil to the actuator that drives the front work device.

6. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein

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

7. The work vehicle according to claim 6 , wherein the working pump is a fixed displacement hydraulic pump that supplies pressure oil to the actuator that drives the front work device.

8. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the working pump is a fixed displacement hydraulic pump that supplies pressure oil to the actuator that drives the front work device.

Assignments (3)
MERGER Recorded Aug 19, 2019
From: KCM CORPORATION
To: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 050088/0068 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 26, 2016
From: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
To: KCM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039551/0951 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 3, 2014
From: HYODO, KOJI; SHIMAZU, ATSUSHI; YAMASHITA, MASASHI; TANAKA, TETSUJI; AOKI, ISAMU; KAWAHARA, SHOROKU
To: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD; KABUSHIKI KAISHA KCM
Reel/Frame 033881/0752 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2013-208252 · Oct 3, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
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