Construction machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11236654-B2
Application number	US-201816330611-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2018
Priority date	Mar 1, 2017
Publication date	Feb 1, 2022
Grant date	Feb 1, 2022

Abstract

A filter (30) traps particulate matter in an exhaust gas. A filter inlet side pressure sensor (34) is provided in an inlet side of the filter (30). An EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor (22) is provided in an inlet side of an EGR valve (20). A regeneration controller (38C) determines whether or not the filter inlet side pressure sensor (34) is in failure based upon a difference between a pressure value detected by the filter inlet side pressure sensor (34) and a pressure value detected by the EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor (22). When the filter inlet side pressure sensor (34) is in failure, the regeneration controller (38C) performs control of regeneration treatment using a differential pressure calculated based upon a pressure value detected by the EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor (22) and a pressure value detected by the filter outlet side pressure sensor (35).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A construction machine comprising:
an engine that is mounted on a vehicle body;
an engine controller that performs control of the engine;
an intake manifold that intakes outside air into the engine;
an exhaust manifold that exhausts an exhaust gas from the engine;
an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) pipe that recirculates a part of the exhaust gas in the exhaust manifold from the exhaust manifold to the intake manifold;
an EGR valve that is provided in the EGR pipe to adjust a flow quantity of the exhaust gas passing through the EGR pipe;
an EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor that is provided in an inlet side of the EGR valve;
an EGR valve outlet side pressure sensor that is provided in an outlet side of the EGR valve;
an EGR controller that calculates a differential pressure between a pressure value detected by the EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor and a pressure value detected by the EGR valve outlet side pressure sensor and performs control of an opening degree of the EGR valve based upon this differential pressure;
an exhaust gas purifying device that is provided in an exhaust side of the engine and has a filter that traps particulate matter in the exhaust gas exhausted from the engine;
a regeneration device that performs regeneration treatment of the filter by burning the particulate matter trapped in the filter of the exhaust gas purifying device,
the regeneration device including:
a filter inlet side pressure sensor that is provided in an inlet side of the filter;
a filter outlet side pressure sensor that is provided in an outlet side of the filter; and
a regeneration controller that calculates a differential pressure between a pressure value detected by the filter inlet side pressure sensor and a pressure value detected by the filter outlet side pressure sensor and performs control of the regeneration treatment of the filter based upon this differential pressure,

wherein
the regeneration controller determines whether or not the filter inlet side pressure sensor is in failure based upon a difference between the pressure value detected by the filter inlet side pressure sensor and the pressure value detected by the EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor; and
when it is determined that the filter inlet side pressure sensor is in failure, the regeneration controller performs the control of the regeneration treatment using a differential pressure calculated based upon the pressure value detected by the EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor and the pressure value detected by the filter outlet side pressure sensor.

2. The construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the regeneration controller makes a determination on whether or not the filter inlet side pressure sensor is in failure when the engine is driving.

3. The construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein
an atmospheric pressure sensor that detects an atmospheric pressure is connected to the regeneration controller,
the regeneration controller determines whether or not the filter inlet side pressure sensor is in failure based upon a difference between a pressure value detected by the atmospheric pressure sensor and a pressure value detected by the filter inlet side pressure sensor before starting the engine,
even when it is determined that the filter inlet side pressure sensor is not in failure by the determination on the failure before this start, the regeneration controller determines whether or not the filter inlet side pressure sensor is in failure based upon the difference between the pressure value detected by the filter inlet side pressure sensor and the pressure value detected by the EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor.

4. The construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein
when the difference between the pressure value detected by the filter inlet side pressure sensor and the pressure value detected by the EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor is equal to or more than a preset failure determining threshold value, the regeneration controller determines that the filter inlet side pressure sensor is in failure.

5. The construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein
the regeneration controller:
estimates a first estimated trapping quantity of the particulate matter trapped in the filter based upon the differential pressure at least between the pressure value detected by the filter inlet side pressure sensor and the pressure value detected by the filter outlet side pressure sensor;
estimates a second estimated trapping quantity of the particulate matter trapped in the filter based upon at least a rotational speed of the engine and a fuel injection quantity;
determines whether to perform the regeneration treatment based upon whether or not at least any one between the first estimated trapping quantity and the second estimated trapping quantity is equal to or more than a preset trapping quantity threshold value;
when it is determined that the filter inlet side pressure sensor is in failure, estimates the first estimated trapping quantity using the differential pressure calculated based upon the pressure value detected by the EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor and the pressure value detected by the filter outlet side pressure sensor; and
when it is determined that the filter inlet side pressure sensor is not in failure, estimates the first estimated trapping quantity using the differential pressure calculated based upon the pressure value detected by the filter inlet side pressure sensor and the pressure value detected by the filter outlet side pressure sensor.

6. The construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein
a map showing a relation of the pressure value detected by the filter inlet side pressure sensor and the pressure value detected by the EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor when both of the filter inlet side pressure sensor and the EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor are not in failure is stored in the regeneration controller; and
when it is determined that the filter inlet side pressure sensor is in failure, the regeneration controller calculates a pressure value estimated to be present at the filter inlet side pressure sensor from a pressure value detected by the EGR valve inlet side pressure sensor based upon this map, and performs the control of the regeneration treatment using a differential pressure calculated based upon the pressure value estimated to be present at the filter inlet side pressure sensor and the pressure value detected by the filter outlet side pressure sensor.

Assignees

• Hitachi Construction Machinery Tierra Co Ltd

Inventors

• Noguchi Shuuhei
• Yoshida Hajime
• Nakabayashi Tetsuya

Classifications

• Y02T10/40

  Engine management systems · CPC title

• F01N2560/08

  the means being a pressure sensor · CPC title

• F02M26/47

  the characteristics being temperatures, pressures or flow rates · CPC title

• F01N2560/14

  having more than one sensor of one kind · CPC title

• F02M26/15

  in relation to engine exhaust purifying apparatus · CPC title