Hydraulic control system in excavator type construction machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12565754-B2
Application number	US-202218686626-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 19, 2022
Priority date	Aug 26, 2021
Publication date	Mar 3, 2026
Grant date	Mar 3, 2026

Abstract

Problem to Be Solved: To investigate an opening area control of a flow control valve disposed on upstream side of the stick's direction change-over valve when using the flow control valve as a valve for restricting the supply flow rate to stick cylinder during interlocking operation of the swiveling motor and stick cylinder. Solution: A configuration is provided to control the opening area of the stick's first flow control valve based on a target supply flow rate to the stick cylinder, target differential pressure between first hydraulic pump A and supply pressure to the stick cylinder, and opening area of supply valve passage to the stick's direction change-over valve and also control that the differential pressure is set larger as operating amount of swiveling manipulator increases during interlocking operation of the swiveling motor and stick cylinder and the opening area of stick's first flow control valve is made smaller as the differential pressure increases.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A hydraulic control system for an excavator type construction machine with an upper swiveling body swivelably supported on a lower traveling body and a working machine mounted on the upper swiveling body, the hydraulic control system comprising:
a swiveling motor for swiveling the upper swiveling body; a hydraulic pump as a hydraulic supply source to the swiveling motor; a hydraulic actuator for actuating the working machine, sharing the hydraulic supply source with the swiveling motor; a first direction change-over valve having a first supply valve passage and a first discharge passage connected to the swiveling motor and configured to selectively change supply/discharge directions; a second direction change-over valve having a second supply valve passage and a second discharge passage connected to the hydraulic actuator and configured to selectively change supply/discharge directions; a flow control valve arranged at an upstream side of the second direction change-over valve for controlling a supply flow rate from the hydraulic pump to the second direction change-over valve; and a controller for controlling an operation of the first direction change-over valve, the second direction change-over valve, and the flow control valve, the controller:
calculates a target supply flow rate from the hydraulic pump to the swiveling motor and the hydraulic actuator,
controls an opening area of each of the first supply valve passage and the first discharge valve passage of the first direction change-over valve and the second supply valve passage and the second discharge passage of the second direction change-over valve,
calculates a target differential pressure between a delivery pressure of the hydraulic pump and a supply pressure to the hydraulic actuator, and
controls an opening area of the flow control valve based on the target supply flow rate, the target differential pressure, and the opening area of the second supply valve passage of the second direction change-over valve;
wherein, when the swiveling motor and the hydraulic actuator are operated concurrently with each other, the target differential pressure is larger than the target differential pressure when the swiveling motor and the hydraulic actuator are not operated concurrently, and as an operating amount of the swiveling motor increases, the controller increases the target differential pressure and decreases the opening area of the flow control valve.

2 . The hydraulic control system for an excavator type construction machine as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, when controlling the opening area of the flow control valve, the controller:
calculates a target opening area after calculating a differential pressure before and after the second supply valve passage of the second direction change-over valve based on the target supply flow rate and the opening area of the second supply valve passage; calculates a differential pressure before and after the flow control valve based on a differential pressure calculated before and after the second supply valve passage and the target differential pressure; and adjusts the calculation of the target opening area of the flow control valve based on the differential pressure calculated before and after the flow control valve and the target supply flow rate.

Assignees

• Caterpillar Sarl

Inventors

• Nakajima Hideki
• Kiyasu Koichi

Classifications

• E02F9/2242

  including an electronic controller · CPC title

• E02F9/2296

  Systems with a variable displacement pump · CPC title

• E02F9/2292

  Systems with two or more pumps · CPC title

• E02F9/2235

  including an electronic controller · CPC title

• E02F9/2228

  including an electronic controller · CPC title