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Granted Patent B2
US 11,746,497 · App. 16/986,598 · Granted Sep 5, 2023

Shovel

Inventors: Ryuji Shiratani (Chiba, JP); Hajime Aragaki (Chiba, JP); Masaaki Yamamoto (Chiba, JP)
Assignee: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
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Patent No.
US 11,746,497
App. No.
16/986,598
Granted
Sep 5, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A shovel includes a traveling body, a turning body turnably mounted on the traveling body, an attachment attached to the turning body and including a boom, an arm, and a bucket, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to relatively slow down an operation of the attachment in such a direction as to terminate a state in which the traveling body is lifted, after the shovel enters the state in which the traveling body is lifted.

Claims (34)

1. A shovel comprising:

a traveling body;

a turning, body turnably mounted on the traveling body;

an attachment attached to the turning body and including a boom an arm, and a bucket;

an operating apparatus for operating the boom; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to determine whether the shovel is in a state in which the traveling body is lifted, on the basis of a pressure of a rod-side hydraulic chamber of a boom cylinder for driving the boom,

wherein the processor is configured to relatively slow down an operation of the attachment in such a direction as to terminate the state in which the traveling body is lifted in response to determining that the shovel is in the state in which the traveling body is lifted,

wherein a flowrate of hydraulic oil supplied to the boom cylinder to drive the boom increases in accordance with an increase of an amount of operation of the operating apparatus, and

wherein the processor is configured to relatively reduce the flowrate of the hydraulic oil supplied to the boom cylinder in accordance with the amount of operation in a direction to raise the boom, in response to determining that the shovel is in the state in which the traveling body is lifted.

2. The shovel according to claim 1 , wherein the state in which the traveling body is lifted is a state in which the bucket comes into contact with a ground with a relatively large force being applied or a relatively large force is applied to the ground with the bucket being in contact with the ground, so that a portion of the traveling body is lifted from the ground, and a weight of the shovel is supported by the traveling body and the attachment.

3. The shovel according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to determine whether the shovel is in the state in which the traveling body is lifted, further on the basis of at least one of information from among information about an inclination state of the shovel, information about a position of the bucket, and information about an operation state of the attachment.

4. The shovel according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a control valve configured to hydraulically drive the boom cylinder on the basis of an output signal corresponding to the amount of operation, the output signal being output from the operating apparatus; and

a correction device provided in a signal transmission path between the operating apparatus and the control valve and capable of correcting the output signal under a control of the processor and outputting the output signal to the control valve,

wherein in the state in which the traveling body is lifted, the processor is configured to cause the correction device to correct the output signal in a direction to reduce the amount of operation.

5. The shovel according to claim 1 , further comprising an adjustment valve capable of adjusting the flowrate of the hydraulic oil supplied to a bottom-side hydraulic chamber of the boom cylinder or discharged from the rod-side hydraulic chamber,

wherein in the state in which the traveling body is lifted, the processor is configured to cause the adjustment valve to adjust the flowrate so as to reduce the flowrate.

6. The shovel according to claim 1 , wherein in the state in which the traveling body is lifted, the processor is configured to relatively slow down the operation of the attachment, and in a case where a certain period of time elapses since a start of an operation for terminating the state in which the traveling body is lifted, the processor is configured to return a movement speed of the attachment back to an original state.

7. The shovel according to claim 1 , wherein in the state in which the traveling body is lifted, the processor is configured to relatively slow down the operation of the attachment, and in a case where the shovel thereafter becomes no longer in the state in which the traveling body is lifted, the processor is configured to return a movement speed of the attachment back to an original state.

8. A shovel comprising:

a traveling body;

a turning body turnably mounted on the traveling body;

an attachment attached to the turning body and including a boom, an arm, and a bucket; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to relatively slow down an operation of the attachment in such a direction as to terminate a state in which the traveling body is lifted, after the shovel enters the state in which the traveling body is lifted, and

wherein in a case where the shovel enters the state in which the traveling body is lifted, the processor is configured to automatically terminate the state in which the traveling body is lifted while relatively slowing down a movement speed of the attachment.

9. A shovel comprising:

a traveling body;

a turning body turnably mounted on the traveling body;

an attachment attached to the turning body and including a boom, an arm, and a bucket; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to relatively slow down an operation of the attachment in such a direction as to terminate a state in which the traveling body is lifted, after the shovel enters the state in which the traveling body is lifted, and

wherein in the state in which the traveling body is lifted, the processor is configured to terminate the state in which the traveling body is lifted while relatively slowing down a movement speed of the attachment when an operation for terminating the state in which the traveling body is lifted is performed.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 31, 2020
From: SHIRATANI, RYUJI; ARAGAKI, HAJIME; YAMAMOTO, MASAAKI
To: SUMITOMO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 053638/0929 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-022017 · Feb 9, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2019001295 · Jan 17, 2019
Related Publication 20200362532A1 · Nov 19, 2020
Cited By (1)
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