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Granted Patent B2
US 12,276,079 · App. 18/710,308 · Granted Apr 15, 2025

Crawler-type work machine

Inventors: Takeshi Yoshikawa (Tokyo, JP); Hiroaki Takeshima (Tokyo, JP); Naoya Akiyama (Tokyo, JP); Shinichi Otaka (Tokyo, JP); Kazushi Nakata (Tokyo, JP); Osamu Yatsuda (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
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Patent No.
US 12,276,079
App. No.
18/710,308
Granted
Apr 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A crawler-type work machine includes left and right steering brakes configured to brake left and right output shafts, a turning motor configured to produce a rotation speed difference between the left and right output shafts, work implement cylinders configured to drive a work implement attached to a vehicle body, a hydraulic pressure supply unit configured to supply hydraulic fluid to the turning motor and the work implement cylinders, and a controller configured to control the hydraulic pressure supply unit. The controller is configured to execute a hydraulic fluid amount control in order to reduce the hydraulic fluid amount supplied from the hydraulic pressure supply unit to the turning motor when the work implement cylinders are driven while the turning motor is rotating.

Claims (27)

1. A crawler-type work machine comprising:

left and right steering brakes configured to brake left and right output shafts;

a turning motor configured to produce a rotation speed difference between the left and right output shafts;

work implement cylinders configured to drive a work implement attached to a vehicle body;

a hydraulic pressure supply unit configured to supply hydraulic fluid to the turning motor and the work implement cylinders; and

a controller configured to control the hydraulic pressure supply unit,

the controller being configured to execute a hydraulic fluid amount control in order to reduce the hydraulic fluid amount supplied from the hydraulic pressure supply unit to the turning motor when the work implement cylinders are driven while the turning motor is rotating.

2. The crawler-type work machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the hydraulic pressure supply unit has

a hydraulic pump that is driven by power from an engine and that discharges hydraulic fluid, and

a control valve that distributes the hydraulic fluid discharged by the hydraulic pump to the turning motor and to the work implement cylinders, and

the controller is configured to reduce the hydraulic fluid amount supplied from the control valve to the turning motor in the hydraulic fluid amount control.

3. The crawler-type work machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the hydraulic pressure supply unit has

a turning motor hydraulic pump that supplies hydraulic fluid to the turning motor, and

a work implement hydraulic pump that supplies hydraulic fluid to the work implement cylinders, and

the controller is configured to reduce the hydraulic fluid amount supplied from the turning motor hydraulic pump to the turning motor in the hydraulic fluid amount control.

4. The crawler-type work machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the controller is configured to increase the hydraulic fluid amount supplied from the hydraulic pressure supply unit to the work implement cylinders in the hydraulic fluid amount control.

5. The crawler-type work machine according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a work implement priority switch,

the controller being configured to detect the driving of the work implement cylinders in accordance with the work implement priority switch being in the ON-state.

6. The crawler-type work machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the controller is configured to detect the driving of the work implement cylinders in accordance with a tractive force of the crawler-type work machine exceeding a predetermined value.

7. The crawler-type work machine according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a work implement lever usable to operate the work implement,

the controller being configured to detect the driving of the work implement cylinders in accordance with the work implement lever being operated.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 15, 2024
From: YOSHIKAWA, TAKESHI; TAKESHIMA, HIROAKI; AKIYAMA, NAOYA; OTAKA, SHINICHI; NAKATA, KAZUSHI; YATSUDA, OSAMU
To: KOMATSU LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-014810 · Feb 2, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20250012043A1 · Jan 9, 2025
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