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Granted Patent B2
US 11,970,838 · App. 17/637,225 · Granted Apr 30, 2024

Construction machine

Inventors: Shohei Sugiki (Kasumigaura, JP); Kenji Hiraku (Kasumigaura, JP); Hiromasa Takahashi (Abiko, JP); Teppei Saitoh (Mito, JP); Juri Shimizu (Hitachinaka, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd
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Patent No.
US 11,970,838
App. No.
17/637,225
Granted
Apr 30, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a construction machine in which travel operability is not impaired when a combined operation is performed in which a single-rod hydraulic cylinder is driven during a travel operation. A hydraulic excavator includes a controller that controls the delivery direction and delivery flow rate of a closed-circuit pump, opens and closes a travel switching valve and an assist switching valve, and controls the delivery flow rate of the open-circuit pump, according to a travel operation lever and a work operation lever. The controller holds the assist switching valve in a closed position irrespective of whether or not the work operation lever is operated in a case where the travel operation lever is operated.

Claims (25)

1. A construction machine comprising:

a travel body;

a work device;

a travel hydraulic motor that drives the travel body;

at least one single-rod hydraulic cylinder that drives the work device;

a travel operation lever for issuing an instruction on an operation of the travel hydraulic motor;

a work operation lever for issuing an instruction on an operation of the single-rod hydraulic cylinder;

a closed-circuit pump that is connected through a closed circuit to the single-rod hydraulic cylinder;

a cap-side flow path that connects a delivery port on one side of the closed-circuit pump to a cap-side chamber of the single-rod hydraulic cylinder;

a rod-side flow path that connects a delivery port on another side of the closed-circuit pump to a rod-side chamber of the single-rod hydraulic cylinder;

an open-circuit pump;

a travel flow rate control valve that controls flow rate supplied from the open-circuit pump to the travel hydraulic motor;

a travel switching valve that is capable of opening and closing a travel flow path connecting a delivery port of the open-circuit pump to the travel flow rate control valve;

an assist switching valve that is capable of opening and closing an assist flow path connecting the delivery port of the open-circuit pump to the cap-side flow path;

a controller that controls the delivery direction and delivery flow rate of the closed-circuit pump, opens and closes the travel switching valve and the assist switching valve, and controls the delivery flow rate of the open-circuit pump, according to operations of the travel operation lever and the work operation lever;

a charge pump;

a charge flow path connected to a delivery port of the charge pump;

a charge relief valve provided in the charge flow path;

a check valve provided between the cap-side flow path and the rod-side flow path and the charge flow path; and

a flushing valve provided between the cap-side flow path and the rod-side flow path and the charge flow path,

wherein the controller is configured to:

hold the assist switching valve in a closed position irrespective of whether or not the work operation lever is operated in a case where the travel operation lever is operated, and

correct the delivery flow rate of the closed-circuit pump such that the passing flow rate through the charge relief valve obtained by subtracting the flow rate which the single-rod hydraulic cylinder absorbs from the charge flow path from the sum of the flow rate which the single-rod hydraulic cylinder discharges into the charge flow path and the delivery flow rate of the charge pump becomes equal to or less than a predetermined flow rate.

2. The construction machine according to claim 1 ,

wherein the controller is configured to correct the delivery flow rate of the closed-circuit pump such that a charge flow rate obtained by subtracting the flow rate which the single-rod hydraulic cylinder discharges into the charge flow path from the flow rate which the single-rod hydraulic cylinder absorbs from the charge flow path becomes equal to or less than the delivery flow rate of the charge pump.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 24, 2022
From: SUGIKI, SHOHEI; HIRAKU, KENJI; TAKAHASHI, HIROMASA; SAITOH, TEPPEI; SHIMIZU, JURI
To: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 060881/0321 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-154133 · Aug 26, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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