IP Library Granted Patent US 8,655,557
Granted Patent B2
US 8,655,557 · App. 13/378,972 · Granted Feb 18, 2014

Motor control device for working vehicle

Inventors: Koji Hyodo (Kasumigaura, JP); Hiroki Nakazono (Ryugasaki, JP); Masaki Yoshikawa (Kasama, JP); Tadayoshi Aoki (Ryugasaki, JP); Isamu Aoki (Tsukuba, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,655,557
App. No.
13/378,972
Granted
Feb 18, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A working vehicle motor control device includes: a rotational speed control device that controls a motor rotational speed in accordance with an operation amount of an accelerator pedal; a travel drive device that transmits rotation of the motor to wheels through a torque converter and a transmission; a speed ratio detection device that detects a speed ratio of an input shaft and an output shaft of the torque converter; and a speed restriction device that restricts a maximum rotational speed of the motor in accordance with a speed ratio detected by the speed ratio detection device. In the working vehicle motor control device, the speed restriction device restricts the maximum rotational speed when a detected speed ratio is in an acceleration region of the motor rotational speed to less than the maximum rotational speed when a detected speed ratio is in a non-acceleration region.

Claims (19)

1. A motor control device for a working vehicle, comprising:

a rotational speed control device that controls a rotational speed of a motor in accordance with an operation amount of an accelerator pedal;

a travel drive device that transmits rotation of the motor to wheels through a torque converter and a transmission;

a speed ratio detection device that detects a speed ratio of an input shaft and an output shaft of the torque converter; and

a speed restriction device that restricts the maximum rotations speed of the motor in accordance with a speed ratio detected by the speed ratio detection device; wherein:

the speed restriction device reduces the maximum rotational speed by a restriction amount, wherein a value of an acceleration region restriction amount, which is set when a detected speed ratio is equal to or less than 1 and in the acceleration region of the rotational speed of the motor in which the detected speed ratio is equal to or greater than a first predetermined value and less than a second predetermined value which is greater than the first predetermined value, is greater than a value of a non-acceleration region restriction amount which is set when a detected speed ratio is equal to or less than 1 and in the non-acceleration region in which the detected speed ratio is less than the first predetermined value or equal to or greater than the second predetermined value.

2. A motor control device for a working vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein: the speed restriction device reduces a value of the maximum rotational speed only when a detected speed ratio is equal to or greater than the first predetermined value and less that the second predetermined value, or when the detected speed ratio is either within a range of equal to or greater than the first predetermined value and less than the second predetermined value or within a range of equal to or greater than the second predetermined value.

3. A motor control device for a working vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein:

in a case where a speed step of the transmission is a low speed step of a first speed step or a second speed step, the speed restriction device reduces the maximum rotational speed of the motor.

4. A motor control device for a working vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein:

the speed restriction device, after increasing the restriction amount, reduces the restriction amount as time passes.

5. A motor control device for a working vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein:

in a case where a speed step of the transmission is a high speed step of equal to or greater than a third speed step, when a detected speed ratio is equal to or greater than a third predetermined value, the speed restriction device gradually increases the restriction amount of the maximum rotational speed of the motor with an increase in a speed ratio so that a maximum vehicle speed of a vehicle becomes a vehicle speed limit that is set in advance.

6. A motor control device for a working vehicle according to claim 5 , further comprising:

a vehicle speed detection device that detects a vehicle speed, wherein:

in the case where the speed step of the transmission is the high step of equal to or greater than the third speed step, when a vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed detection device is equal to or greater than a set vehicle speed that is lower than the vehicle speed limit, the speed restriction device gradually increases the restriction amount, and, when a vehicle speed is less than the set vehicle speed, the speed restriction device does not restrict the maximum rotational speed.

7. A motor control device for a working vehicle according to claim 5 , further comprising:

a determination device that makes a decision as to whether a value detected by the speed ratio detection device is normal or abnormal, wherein:

in the case where the speed step of the transmission is the high speed step of equal to or greater than the third speed step, when the determination device makes a decision that the detection value is normal, the speed restriction device gradually reduces the maximum rotational speed to a predetermined value with an increase in a speed ratio, and, when the determination device makes a decision that the detection value is abnormal, the speed restriction device restricts the maximum rotational speed to the predetermined value regardless of a speed ratio.

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 Jan 12, 2012
From: HYODO, KOJI; NAKAZONO, HIROKI; YOSHIKAWA, MASAKI; AOKI, TADAYOSHI; AOKI, ISAMU
To: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027524/0540 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-146197 · Jun 19, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120095655A1 · Apr 19, 2012