Work machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11085168-B2
Application number	US-201816490998-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 27, 2018
Priority date	Sep 26, 2017
Publication date	Aug 10, 2021
Grant date	Aug 10, 2021

Abstract

A hydraulic excavator (1) including a controller (21) having a load computing section (52) configured to compute a load of a work target material on the basis of thrust information about a boom cylinder (16) during the period when a front work implement (12) is performing a transporting operation of a work target material, the controller (21) further including: a velocity limiting value computing section (55) configured to compute a limiting value (Vlim) of a velocity of a boom cylinder (16) on the basis of posture information about the work implement (12) at a time of starting the transporting operation; a velocity command correction section (50) configured to correct a velocity command in such a manner that the velocity of the boom cylinder is equal to the limiting value (Vlim) when the velocity of the boom cylinder exceeds the limiting value and output the corrected velocity command; and a drive signal generation section (51) configured to generate and output a drive signal for the boom cylinder on the basis of the velocity command output from a velocity command correction section.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A work machine comprising:
a multijoint work implement;
an actuator configured to drive the work implement;
an operation device configured to generate a velocity command to the actuator in response to an operation amount; and
a controller having a load computing section configured to compute a load of a work target material on the basis of thrust information about the actuator during the period when the work implement is transporting the work target material to above a transporting machine, wherein
the controller further includes:
a velocity limiting value computing section configured to compute a limiting value of a velocity of the actuator on the basis of posture information about the work implement at a time of starting transport of the work target material to above the transporting machine by the work implement;
a velocity command correction section configured to correct the velocity command in such a manner that the velocity of the actuator is equal to the limiting value when the velocity of the actuator specified by the velocity command exceeds the limiting value and output the corrected velocity command, and configured to output the velocity command without correction when the velocity of the actuator specified by the velocity command is equal to or lower than the limiting value; and
a drive signal generation section configured to generate and output a drive signal for the actuator on the basis of the velocity command output from the velocity command correction section.

2. The work machine according to claim 1 , further comprising
a posture computing section configured to compute a height of a tip end of the work implement relative to the work machine at the time of starting transporting the work target material to above the transporting machine by the work implement, as the posture information about the work implement, wherein
the velocity limiting value computing section computes the limiting value in a case in which the height of the tip end of the work implement exceeds a reference line Lst 1 set below the work implement.

3. The work machine according to claim 2 , wherein
the limiting value is set in such a manner as to decrease in proportion to an increase in a distance between the height of the tip end of the work implement and the reference line Lst 1 .

4. The work machine according to claim 1 , further comprising
a posture computing section configured to compute a horizontal distance from the work machine to the tip end of the work implement at the time of starting transporting the work target material to above the transporting machine by the work implement, as the posture information about the work implement, wherein
the velocity limiting value computing section computes the limiting value in a case in which the horizontal distance is smaller than a predetermined value.

5. The work machine according to claim 4 , wherein
the limiting value is set in such a manner as to decrease in proportion to a decrease in the horizontal distance.

6. The work machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller further includes a relative distance computing section configured to measure a relative distance between the work machine and the transporting machine in a vertical direction; and
the work machine further includes a posture computing section configured to compute a height of a tip end of the work implement relative to the work machine at the time of starting transporting the work target material to above the transporting machine by the work implement, as the posture information about the work implement, wherein
the velocity limiting value computing section calculates a moving height of the work implement from the relative distance in the vertical direction and the height of the tip end of the work implement, and computes the limiting value in a case in which the moving height exceeds a reference line Lst 1 set below the work machine.

7. The work machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller further includes:
a load stability determination section configured to determine whether the load value of the work target material is stable on the basis of a time change of the load value of the work target material computed by the load computing section; and
a filter processing section configured to perform a low-pass filter process on a velocity command generated by the operation device in a case in which the load stability determination section determines that the load value of the work target material is not stable, wherein

the velocity command correction section corrects a filter velocity command that is the velocity command having been subjected to the low-pass filter process by the filter processing section in such a manner that an actuator velocity specified by the filter velocity command is equal to the limiting value and outputs the corrected filter velocity command when the actuator velocity exceeds the limiting value, and outputs the filter velocity command without correcting the filter velocity command when the actuator velocity specified by the filter velocity command is equal to or lower than the limiting value.

Assignees

• Hitachi Construction Mach Co

Inventors

• Nakamura Satoshi
• Tomita Kunitsugu
• Hoshino Kazunori
• YAMANOBE Yousuke
• TORIYAMA Youhei

Classifications

• E02F3/43 Primary

  Control of dipper or bucket position; Control of sequence of drive operations · CPC title

• E02F9/26

  Indicating devices {(E02F5/145 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• E02F9/2033

  Limiting the movement of frames or implements, e.g. to avoid collision between implements and the cabin (sub-groups of E02F3/431 of E02F3/435 take precedence; for turntables E02F9/123) · CPC title

• E02F9/2062 Primary

  Control of propulsion units (for control of the prime mover depending on the load in a hydraulic or pneumatic drive E02F9/2246) · CPC title

• G01G19/083

  lift truck scale · CPC title