Control device for hydraulic traveling device
A travel control device is provided with hydraulic pumps of a variable capacity type that are driven by an engine; hydraulic motors that are driven by discharged oil from the hydraulic pumps; traveling devices that are rotation-driven by the hydraulic motors; a travel operation lever that is operated so as to instruct a traveling operation; a first control valve for generating a charged hydraulic pressure by adjusting the discharged oil from a charge pump and a second control valve for generating a capacity control hydraulic pressure in accordance with the operation of the travel operation lever. The first control valve is designed to pressure-adjust and generate a charged hydraulic pressure in accordance with the rotation speed of the engine, and the hydraulic pump is subjected to a variable capacity control process by a capacity control hydraulic pressure that is pressure-adjusted and generated by the second control valve.
1. A control device for a hydraulic traveling device, wherein the hydraulic traveling device comprises:
a hydraulic transmission constituted by having a hydraulic pump of a variable capacity type, which is driven by an engine, and a hydraulic motor driven by discharged oil from the hydraulic pump;
a traveling device that is driven by the hydraulic motor;
a travel operation device that is operated so as to instruct a traveling operation by the traveling device;
a charge pump for supplying a charging oil to the hydraulic transmission through a charging oil passage;
a charging pressure control valve for adjusting a hydraulic pressure inside the charging oil passage into a charging hydraulic pressure;
a first control valve for generating an engine rotation-related control hydraulic pressure in accordance with an engine rotation speed using the charging hydraulic pressure inside the charging oil passage;
a second control valve for generating a capacity control hydraulic pressure in accordance with the operation of the travel operation device using the engine rotation-related control hydraulic pressure, and for supplying the capacity control hydraulic pressure to a variable capacity control unit which controls the variable capacity of the hydraulic pump;
a variable capacity controlling of the hydraulic pump being carried out by the capacity control hydraulic pressure supplied from the second control valve to the variable capacity control unit;
an accelerator operation device that is operated so as to instruct an engine driving operation;
an engine control device for carrying out a driving control operation on the engine in accordance with the operation of the accelerator operation device;
a target engine rotation setting device for setting a target engine rotation speed in accordance with the operation of the accelerator operation device; and
an engine speed detection device for detecting the engine rotation speed,
wherein the first control valve adjusts and generates the engine rotation-related control hydraulic pressure so as to make a difference between the engine rotation speed detected by the engine speed detection device and the target engine rotation speed set by the target engine rotation setting device smaller.
2. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the first control valve adjusts and generates the engine rotation-related control hydraulic pressure by using PID control so as to make the difference between the engine rotation speed and the target engine rotation speed smaller.
3. The control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a hydraulic actuation device that is actuated by a hydraulic actuator;
a main pump for supplying a working oil to be supplied to the hydraulic actuator;
an actuation control valve of a hydraulic pilot type for performing control for supplying the discharge oil of the main pump to the hydraulic actuator;
an actuation operation device that is operated so as to instruct the actuation of the hydraulic actuation device; and
a third control valve for performing control so as to supply a pilot pressure for controlling the actuation of the actuation control valve to the actuation control valve in accordance with the operation of the actuation operation device,
wherein the third control valve is designed to generate the pilot pressure by using the engine rotation-related control hydraulic pressure,
a pilot detection device for detecting whether the pilot pressure has been supplied from the third control valve to the actuation control valve is provided, and
when the supply of the pilot pressure to the actuation control valve has been detected by the pilot detection device, the target engine rotation speed is lowered.
4. The control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a hydraulic actuation device that is actuated by a hydraulic actuator;
a main pump for supplying a working oil to be supplied to the hydraulic actuator;
an actuation control valve of a hydraulic pilot type for performing control for supplying the discharge oil of the main pump to the hydraulic actuator;
an actuation operation device that is operated so as to instruct the actuation of the hydraulic actuation device; and
a third control valve for performing control so as to supply a pilot pressure for controlling the actuation of the actuation control valve to the actuation control valve in accordance with the operation of the actuation operation device,
wherein the third control valve performs control for supplying oil that has been set to the charging hydraulic pressure inside the charging oil passage to a pilot actuation unit of the actuation control valve in accordance with the operation of the actuation operation device.
5. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the charge pressure control valve is designed to suppress fluctuations in the charging hydraulic pressure caused by a change in an oil amount to be supplied to the hydraulic transmission from the charge pump through the charging oil passage.