Drive control method of hydraulic actuator of construction machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10787791-B2
Application number	US-201515542018-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 8, 2015
Priority date	Jan 8, 2015
Publication date	Sep 29, 2020
Grant date	Sep 29, 2020

Abstract

A drive control method of a hydraulic actuator of a construction machine includes: determining whether a rotation operation lever and a working device operation lever are operated; calculating the required pressure of a hydraulic cylinder fix a working device according to the operation amount of the rotation operation lever; calculating the required flow rates of a swing motor and the hydraulic cylinder for the working device, the required flow rates corresponding to the operation amounts of the working device operation lever and the rotation operation lever; calculating the opening areas of the first and second proportional solenoid valves of an inlet side and an outlet side by using the calculated required pressure and required flow rates of the hydraulic cylinder for the working device and the swing motor; and calculating current values to be inputted into the first and second proportional solenoid valves of the inlet side and the outlet side according to preset data values or a table in comparison with the calculated opening areas of the first and second proportional solenoid valves of the inlet side and the outlet side.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A drive control method of hydraulic actuator for construction machine, including an electronic swing operation lever; an electronic working device operation lever; a variable displacement hydraulic pump; a swing motor and a hydraulic cylinder that is driven by hydraulic fluid of the hydraulic pump; first electric proportional control valves at an inlet line and an outlet line of the swing motor for supplying and discharging the hydraulic fluid of the hydraulic pump, respectively; second electric proportional control valves at an inlet line and an outlet line of the hydraulic cylinder for supplying and discharging the hydraulic fluid of the hydraulic pump, respectively; and a controller to which operation signals are inputted by operating the swing operation lever and the working device operation lever, the method comprising:
judging whether or not the swing operation lever and the working device operation lever are in combined operations;
calculating, by the controller, a required pressure of the hydraulic cylinder corresponding to the operation amount of the swing operation lever;
calculating, by the controller, a required flow rate of the hydraulic cylinder corresponding to the operation amount of the working device operation lever, and a required flow rate of the swing motor corresponding to the operation amount of the swing operation lever;
calculating, by the controller, valve opening areas of the first and second electric proportional control valves at the inlet and outlet lines of the hydraulic cylinder or the swing motor using the required pressure and flow rate of the hydraulic cylinder and the swing motor, respectively; and,
calculating, by the controller, electric current values inputted to the first and second electric proportional control valves at the inlet and outlet lines by comparing the valve opening areas of the first and second electric proportional control valves at the inlet and outlet lines with a predetermined data or a value of data table, respectively;
wherein the valve opening areas are given as follows;
the valve opening area of the first electric proportional control valve at the inlet of the swing motor=the required flow rate of swing motor/square root of the required pressure of swing motor;
the valve opening area of the first electric proportional control valve at the outlet of the swing motor=the required flow rate of swing motor/square root of [the required pressure of swing motor−the hydraulic fluid pressure drained from the swing motor];
the valve opening area of the second electric proportional control valve at the inlet of the hydraulic cylinder for the working device=the required flow rate of hydraulic cylinder for the working device/square root of the required pressure of hydraulic cylinder for the working device; and
the valve opening area of the second electric proportional control valve at the outlet of the hydraulic cylinder for the working device=the required flow rate of hydraulic cylinder for the working device/square root of [the required pressure of hydraulic cylinder for the working device−the hydraulic fluid pressure drained from the hydraulic cylinder],
the method further comprising inputting the electric current values into the first and second electric proportional control valves at the inlet and outlet lines to control the valve opening areas of the first and second electric proportional control valves.

2. The drive control method of claim 1 , wherein the hydraulic cylinder for the working device is one of the cylinders including boom cylinder, arm cylinder and bucket cylinder.

3. The drive control method of claim 1 , wherein the electric current values that are inputted to the first and second electric proportional control valves at the inlet line and the outlet line are calculated using a table of the electric current values which are directly proportional to the valve opening areas of the first and second electric proportional control valves.

4. The drive control method of claim 1 , wherein the required pressure of the hydraulic cylinder for the working device corresponding to the operation amount of the swing operation lever is calculated by a table representing boom pressure, arm pressure, and bucket pressure versus the operation amount of the swing operation lever.

Assignees

• Volvo Constr Equip Ab

Inventors

• Jung Tae-Rang
• Lee Chun-Han

Classifications

• F15B11/006

  Hydraulic "Wheatstone bridge" circuits, i.e. with four nodes, P-A-T-B, and on-off or proportional valves in each link · CPC title

• F15B21/082

  with different modes · CPC title

• F15B2211/6346

  representing a state of input means, e.g. joystick position · CPC title

• F15B2211/781

  one or more output members having priority · CPC title

• F15B2211/7135

  Combinations of output members of different types, e.g. single-acting cylinders with rotary motors · CPC title