Operating machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10054119-B2
Application number	US-201213982551-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2012
Priority date	Feb 1, 2011
Publication date	Aug 21, 2018
Grant date	Aug 21, 2018

Abstract

A hybrid or battery type working machine including a hydraulic pump, an electric motor, an electric storage device, and a control device which controls a pump absorption horsepower maximum value in accordance with an amount of electricity stored in the electric storage device. The control device reduces the pump absorption horsepower maximum value by dividing the pump absorption horsepower maximum value into a plurality of regions having different target flow rates, and reduces the pump absorption horsepower maximum value from an old pump absorption horsepower maximum value corresponding to the pump absorption horsepower maximum value which has not yet been reduced to a new pump absorption horsepower maximum value corresponding to the pump absorption horsepower maximum value which has been reduced, so that temporal differences among the regions can increase in a descending order of a target flow rate.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A working machine comprising:
a hydraulic pump;
an electric motor which drives the hydraulic pump;
an electric storage device which supplies electric power for power running to the electric motor; and
a control device which controls a pump absorption horsepower maximum value in accordance with an amount of electricity stored in the electric storage device,
wherein: the control device obtains an amount of reduction in the amount of electricity stored in the electric storage device within a stored electricity amount change measuring time set in advance, obtains an operation possible time from the obtained amount of reduction and a residual amount of electricity stored in the electric storage device, determines whether the obtained operation possible time reaches a remaining time of a preset operation scheduled time obtained by subtracting a currently spent real operating time from the operation scheduled time or not, and reduces the pump absorption horsepower maximum value to such a value that the operation possible time can reach the remaining time of the operation scheduled time when determination is made that the operation possible time does not reach the remaining time,
wherein: when the control device reduces the pump absorption horsepower maximum value, further the control device divides a difference between an old pump absorption horsepower maximum value corresponding to the pump absorption horsepower maximum value which has not yet been reduced and a new pump absorption horsepower maximum value corresponding to the pump absorption horsepower maximum value which has been reduced into a plurality of regions having different target flow rates in a descending order of target flow rate, and reduces the old pump absorption horsepower maximum value to the new pump absorption horsepower maximum value by firstly reducing the old pump absorption horsepower maximum value corresponding to one of the regions whose target flow rate is high among the plurality of regions to the new pump absorption horsepower maximum value, and lastly reducing the old pump absorption horsepower maximum value corresponding to another one of the regions whose target flow rate is low among the plurality of regions to the new pump absorption horsepower maximum value, so that temporal differences among the regions increase in a descending order of a target flow rate.

2. The working machine according to claim 1 , further comprising: an engine which serves for driving the hydraulic pump and whose rated output torque is smaller than the pump absorption horsepower maximum value; wherein the control device operates the engine at the rated output torque even when a determination is made that the obtained operation possible time does not reach the remaining time of the operation scheduled time.

3. The working machine according to claim 2 , wherein: the control device includes a residual stored electricity amount monitoring unit which calculates a new pump absorption horsepower maximum value corresponding to the pump absorption horsepower maximum value which has been reduced, from the amount of electricity stored in the electric storage device, the operation scheduled time and the real operating time, and a load torque control unit which calculates a minimum value of a tilt angle signal of the hydraulic pump from the new pump absorption horsepower maximum value outputted from the residual stored electricity amount monitoring unit, a rotational speed of the engine and a discharge pressure of the hydraulic pump.

4. The working machine according to claim 1 , wherein: a time between an operation start scheduled time instant of one day and an operation end scheduled time instant of the day is set as the operation scheduled time, and a fixed time from an operation start time instant of the day and a fixed time from any desirably set time instant after the pump absorption horsepower maximum value is reduced are set as new stored electricity amount change measuring times.

5. The working machine according to claim 1 , wherein: the real operating time is counted using an hour meter, and the hour meter stops counting the real operating time when each part of the machine is changed over to an operation prohibition state by a gate lock unit.

Assignees

• Sasaki Masataka
• Satake Hidetoshi
• Satake Takako
• Hitachi Construction Mach Co

Inventors

• Sasaki Masataka
• Satake Hidetoshi

Classifications

• H02J7/947 Primary

  in response to integrated charge or discharge current · CPC title

• E02F9/2235

  including an electronic controller · CPC title

• F04B27/14

  Control · CPC title

• F04B49/103

  Responsive to speed · CPC title

• B60L2200/40

  Working vehicles · CPC title