IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,781,285
Granted Patent B2
US 11,781,285 · App. 17/632,668 · Granted Oct 10, 2023

Construction machine

Inventors: Hiroaki Amano (Tsukuba, JP); Kento Kumagai (Ami-machi, JP); Shinji Nishikawa (Kasumigaura, JP); Akihiro Narazaki (Tsukuba, JP)
Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
E02F9/2203E02F9/123E02F9/2235E02F9/2296F15B11/028F15B2211/7058
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Patent No.
US 11,781,285
App. No.
17/632,668
Granted
Oct 10, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a construction machine which can promptly adjust the rotational speed of a swing motor to a target rotational speed. A controller calculates a target rotational speed of the swing motor based on input from an operation device, calculates a degree of deviation of a rotational speed detected by a rotational speed sensor from the target rotational speed, sets a target driving pressure of the swing motor according to a moment of inertia about a swing axis of a swing structure and a work device and controls a pressure adjusting device in such a manner as to reduce a difference between a driving pressure detected by a pressure sensor and the target driving pressure, when the degree of deviation is larger than a predetermined value, and controls the pressure adjusting device in such a manner as to reduce a difference between the rotational speed detected by the rotational speed sensor and the target rotational speed, when the degree of deviation is equal to or smaller than the predetermined value.

Claims (45)

1. A construction machine comprising:

a track structure;

a swing structure swingably attached onto the track structure;

a work device attached to the swing structure;

a hydraulic operating fluid tank;

a hydraulic pump that delivers hydraulic operating fluid sucked from the hydraulic operating fluid tank;

a swing motor that is supplied with the hydraulic operating fluid from the hydraulic pump and drives the swing structure; and

an operation device for giving an instruction for operation of the swing structure, wherein

the construction machine comprises

a rotational speed sensor that detects a rotational speed of the swing motor,

a pressure sensor that detects a driving pressure of the swing motor,

a pressure adjusting device capable of adjusting the driving pressure of the swing motor, and

a controller that controls the pressure adjusting device,

the hydraulic pump is of a variable displacement type,

the pressure adjusting device includes a pump regulator capable of adjusting a delivery flow rate of the hydraulic pump and a bleed-off valve disposed on a flow passage that connects the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic operating fluid tank to each other, and

the controller is configured to

calculate a target rotational speed of the swing motor based on input from the operation device,

calculate a degree of deviation of the rotational speed detected by the rotational speed sensor from the target rotational speed,

set a target driving pressure of the swing motor according to a swing moment as a moment of inertia about a swing axis of the swing structure and the work device and control the pressure adjusting device in such a manner as to reduce a difference between the driving pressure detected by the pressure sensor and the target driving pressure, when the degree of deviation is larger than a predetermined value, and

control, when the degree of deviation is equal to or smaller than the predetermined value, the pump regulator in such a manner as to reduce a difference between the rotational speed detected by the rotational speed sensor and the target rotational speed, in a state in which the bleed-off valve is closed.

2. The construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the controller is configured to

calculate a rotational acceleration of the swing motor based on the rotational speed detected by the rotational speed sensor, and

calculate the swing moment based on the driving pressure detected by the pressure sensor and the rotational acceleration.

3. A construction machine comprising:

a track structure;

a swing structure swingably attached onto the track structure;

a work device attached to the swing structure;

a hydraulic operating fluid tank;

a hydraulic pump that delivers hydraulic operating fluid sucked from the hydraulic operating fluid tank;

a swing motor that is supplied with the hydraulic operating fluid from the hydraulic pump and drives the swing structure; and

an operation device for giving an instruction for operation of the swing structure, wherein

the construction machine comprises

a rotational speed sensor that detects a rotational speed of the swing motor,

a pressure sensor that detects a driving pressure of the swing motor,

a pressure adjusting device capable of adjusting the driving pressure of the swing motor, and

a controller that controls the pressure adjusting device,

the hydraulic pump is of a variable displacement type,

the pressure adjusting device includes a pump regulator capable of adjusting a delivery flow rate of the hydraulic pump and a bleed-off valve disposed on a flow passage that connects the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic operating fluid tank to each other, and

the controller is configured to

calculate a target rotational speed of the swing motor based on input from the operation device,

calculate a degree of deviation of the rotational speed detected by the rotational speed sensor from the target rotational speed,

set a target driving pressure of the swing motor according to a swing moment as a moment of inertia about a swing axis of the swing structure and the work device and

control the pump regulator in such a manner as to reduce a difference between the driving pressure detected by the pressure sensor and the target driving pressure, in a state in which an aperture amount of the bleed-off valve is maintained to be a predetermined aperture amount, when the degree of deviation is larger than a predetermined value, and

 control, when the degree of deviation is equal to or smaller than the predetermined value, the pressure adjusting device in such a manner as to reduce a difference between the rotational speed detected by the rotational speed sensor and the target rotational speed.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 23, 2022
From: AMANO, HIROAKI; KUMAGAI, KENTO; NISHIKAWA, SHINJI; NARAZAKI, AKIHIRO
To: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-172094 · Sep 20, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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