Work vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10767342-B2
Application number	US-201816489795-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 4, 2018
Priority date	Sep 26, 2017
Publication date	Sep 8, 2020
Grant date	Sep 8, 2020

Abstract

The work vehicle includes an engine, a radiator; a hydraulic pump; a cooling fan that blows a cooling air to the radiator; a hydraulic motor which is driven by a pressure oil delivered from the hydraulic pump, and rotates the cooling fan; a directional control valve that switches a flow direction of the pressure oil from the hydraulic pump to rotate the hydraulic motor in forward and reverse directions; and a controller that controls the directional control valve so as to cause the repetitive operation of the forward and reverse rotation of the cooling fan to be performed at predetermined time intervals, in which the controller reduces the time intervals more than a normal time initially set when a relationship between the outside air temperature detected by the outside air temperature sensor and the refrigerant temperature detected by the refrigerant temperature sensor satisfies a predetermined condition.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A work vehicle comprising: an engine; a radiator that cools a refrigerant of the engine; a hydraulic pump that is driven by the engine; a refrigerant temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the refrigerant; an outside air temperature sensor that detects a temperature of an outside air; a thermostat that opens and closes a flowpath between a fully closed state and a fully opened state in accordance with the temperature of the refrigerant on the flowpath for supplying the refrigerant to the radiator; a hydraulic motor which is driven by a pressure oil delivered from the hydraulic pump, and rotates a cooling fan for blowing a cooling air to the radiator; a directional control valve that switches the flow direction of the pressure oil from the hydraulic pump to rotate the hydraulic motor in forward and reverse directions; and a control device that controls the directional control valve to cause the repetitive operation of the forward and reverse rotation of the cooling fan to be performed at predetermined time intervals, wherein
the control device changes setting of the time intervals when a relationship between the outside air temperature detected by the outside air temperature sensor and the refrigerant temperature detected by the refrigerant temperature sensor satisfies a predetermined condition defined in advance,
the predetermined condition includes a high temperature condition in which the outside air temperature detected by the outside air temperature sensor is higher than a reference value, and a low temperature condition in which the outside air temperature is lower than the reference value, and
the control device reduces the time interval more than a normal time initially set when the refrigerant temperature detected from the refrigerant temperature sensor reaches a first set temperature under the low temperature condition or when the refrigerant temperature detected from the refrigerant temperature sensor reaches a second set temperature higher than the first set temperature under the high temperature condition.

2. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the control device returns the time intetrval to the normal time when the refrigerant temperature detected from the refrigerant temperature sensor reaches a low temperature side reference value lower than the first set temperature under the low temperature condition, or when the refrigerant temperature detected from the refrigerant temperature sensor reaches a high temperature side reference value lower than the second set temperature under the high temperature condition, after the time interval is reduced more than the normal time.

3. The work vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the first set temperature and the low temperature side reference value are defined within a temperature range of the refrigerant in which the thermostat fully opens from fully closed.

4. The work vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the second set temperature is equal to or higher than the temperature of the refrigerant at which the thermostat is fully opened.

5. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the control device returns the interval time to the normal time when the engine is stopped after the interval time is reduced more than the normal time.

6. The work vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein the second set temperature is equal to or higher than the temperature of the refrigerant at which the thermostat is fully opened.

Assignees

• Hitachi Construction Mach Co

Inventors

• Hyodo Koji
• Aoki Isamu
• Tanaka Tetsuji
• Shimazaki Koji

Classifications

• F01P11/12

  Filtering, cooling, or silencing cooling-air · CPC title

• F01P5/04

  Pump-driving arrangements · CPC title

• E02F9/226

  Safety arrangements, e.g. hydraulic driven fans, preventing cavitation, leakage, overheating · CPC title

• F01P2025/32

  Engine outcoming fluid temperature · CPC title

• F01P2025/13

  Ambient temperature · CPC title