Calibration system in hydraulic system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12540634-B2
Application number	US-202318865991-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 26, 2023
Priority date	May 27, 2022
Publication date	Feb 3, 2026
Grant date	Feb 3, 2026

Abstract

Problem: Calibration to make the correspondence relationship between the operation amount of the operator and the supply flow rate to the hydraulic actuator be a preset setting relationship is made easy. Solution: The control valve that controls the supply flow rate to the hydraulic actuator is configured with a spool valve, a pressure compensation valve that maintains a front and rear differential pressure of the spool valve to be constant, and electromagnetic proportional valves that output pilot pressure to the spool valve, and a measured data that actually measures the correspondence between the output pilot pressure from the electromagnetic proportional valves and the supply flow from the control valve before the control valve is installed in the working machine is configured to calibrate the corresponding data of the operation amount of the operator and the output current value to the electromagnetic proportional valves.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A calibration system for a hydraulic system of a working machine, comprising:
a hydraulic actuator; a control valve for controlling a supply flow rate of the hydraulic actuator, including:
a spool valve for supplying the hydraulic actuator, which opens an opening with an opening area corresponding to a pilot pressure,
a pressure compensation valve connected to an inlet side and an outlet side of the spool valve, and configured to keep a differential pressure between an inlet side pressure and an outlet side pressure constant, and
an electromagnetic proportional valve which outputs the pilot pressure to the spool valve proportional to a current;
an operator input for driving the hydraulic actuator; a pressure sensor for detecting the pilot pressure from the electromagnetic proportional valve to the spool valve; an output current control unit for outputting the current to the electromagnetic proportional valve; a controller for controlling the control valve based on an operation of the operator input, the controller configured to detect the operator input, and direct the output current control unit to output the current to the electromagnetic proportional valve based on a corresponding data representing a corresponding relationship between the operator input and the supply flow rate of the hydraulic actuator; and a calibration control unit configured to:
set a calibration point of the operator input,
reference a setting data to determine the supply flow rate at the calibration point,
set a target pilot pressure at the calibration point,
measure the pilot pressure from the electromagnetic proportional valve via the pressure sensor,
direct the output current control unit to adjust the current to a calibrated output current where the pilot pressure is the same as the target pilot pressure at the calibration point, and
adjust the corresponding data stored in the controller.

2 . A calibration system for a hydraulic system of a working machine, comprising:
a hydraulic actuator; a control valve for controlling a supply flow rate of the hydraulic actuator, including:
a spool valve for supplying the hydraulic actuator, which opens an opening with an opening area corresponding to a pilot pressure,
a pressure compensation valve connected to an inlet side and an outlet side of the spool valve, and configured to keep a differential pressure between an inlet side pressure and an outlet side pressure constant, and
an electromagnetic proportional valve which outputs the pilot pressure to the spool valve proportional to a current;
an operator input for driving the hydraulic actuator; an output current control unit for outputting the current to the electromagnetic proportional valve; a controller for controlling the control valve based on an operation of the operator input, when a corresponding relationship between an operation amount of the operator input and the supply flow rate to the hydraulic actuator is calibrated to a preset setting, the controller configured to direct the output current control unit to output the current to the electromagnetic proportional valve based on a corresponding data; and a calibration control unit configured to:
set a calibration point of the operator input and reference a setting data to determine the supply flow rate at the calibration point,
set a target pilot pressure at the calibration point and measure the pilot pressure from the electromagnetic proportional valve,
direct the output current control unit to adjust the current to a calibrated output current where the pilot pressure is the same as the target pilot pressure at the calibration point, and
adjust the corresponding data stored in the controller.

Assignees

• Caterpillar Sarl

Inventors

• Nakajima Hideki
• Kiyasu Koichi
• Koga Toshikazu

Classifications

• F15B2211/857

  Monitoring of fluid pressure systems · CPC title

• F15B2211/6355

  having valve means · CPC title

• F15B2211/6316

  the pressure being a pilot pressure · CPC title

• F15B2211/36

  Pilot pressure sensing · CPC title

• F15B2211/355

  Pilot pressure control · CPC title