Shovel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11225771-B2
Application number	US-201916361472-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 22, 2019
Priority date	Sep 30, 2016
Publication date	Jan 18, 2022
Grant date	Jan 18, 2022

Abstract

A shovel includes a traveling body, an upper turning body turnably provided on the traveling body, an attachment including a boom, an arm, and a bucket and attached to the upper turning body, and a processor. The processor is configured to correct a motion of the boom cylinder of the attachment in such a manner as to control a lift of the rear of the traveling body with the front of the traveling body serving as a tipping fulcrum. The processor is configured to correct the motion of the boom cylinder based on a rod pressure and a bottom pressure of the boom cylinder.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A shovel comprising:
a traveling body;
an upper turning body turnably provided on the traveling body;
an attachment including a boom, an arm, and a bucket and attached to the upper turning body; and
a processor configured to correct a motion of a boom cylinder of the attachment in such a manner as to control a lift of a rear of the traveling body with a front of the traveling body serving as a tipping fulcrum,
wherein the processor is configured to correct the motion of the boom cylinder based on a rod pressure and a bottom pressure of the boom cylinder.

2. The shovel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to correct the motion of the boom cylinder based on a force exerted on the upper turning body by the boom cylinder.

3. The shovel as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a sensor configured to detect a rotation of the shovel around a pitch axis, the sensor being at least one of an acceleration sensor, a velocity sensor, and a gyro sensor,
wherein the processor is configured to correct the motion of the boom cylinder based on an output of the sensor.

4. The shovel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to correct the motion of the boom cylinder on condition that the shovel is not traveling and the attachment is in operation.

5. The shovel as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the processor is configured to correct the motion of the boom cylinder while at least one of the boom, the arm, and the bucket is in operation.

6. The shovel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to correct the motion of the boom cylinder such that D 4 F 1 <D 2 Mg holds, where D 2 is a distance between a center of gravity of a vehicle body of the shovel and the tipping fulcrum of the traveling body, D 4 is a distance between a connecting point of the boom cylinder and the upper turning body and the tipping fulcrum, F 1 is a force exerted on the upper turning body by the boom cylinder, M is a weight of the vehicle body, and g is gravitational acceleration.

7. The shovel as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the distances D 4 and D 2 or a ratio thereof is obtained based on the force F 1 at a time of the lift of the traveling body.

8. The shovel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a position of the tipping fulcrum is changed in accordance with an orientation of the upper turning body.

9. The shovel as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
an operating part configured to be operated by an operator to determine whether to enable the processor to correct or disable the processor from correcting the motion of the boom cylinder of the attachment in such a manner as to control the lift of the rear of the traveling body with the front of the traveling body serving as the tipping fulcrum.

10. The shovel as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to correct the motion of the boom cylinder of the attachment in such a manner as to control a lift of the front of the traveling body with the rear of the traveling body serving as the tipping fulcrum.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Heavy Industries

Inventors

• Okada Junichi
• Hiranuma Kazunori

Classifications

• E02F3/435 Primary

  for dipper-arms, backhoes or the like · CPC title

• E02F9/2285

  Pilot-operated systems · CPC title

• E02F9/226

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

• E02F9/2029

  Controlling the position of implements in function of its load, e.g. modifying the attitude of implements in accordance to vehicle speed (control for hydraulic or pneumatic drives E02F9/2203, E02F9/2221 and E02F9/2253 take precedence) · CPC title

• G05B13/02

  electric · CPC title