Electric work vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023309442-A1
Application number	US-202318186558-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 20, 2023
Priority date	Mar 31, 2022
Publication date	Oct 5, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

An electric work vehicle includes at least one motor configured to drive one or both of a travelling device and a working device included in a vehicle; an operation section configured to direct a rotational speed or actuation of the motor; a control section configured to control the motor according to an operation of the operation section; and a battery configured to supply power to the motor. The control section decreases an upper limit of rotational speed of the motor, based on a detected result with regard to a battery condition including a voltage of the battery.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electric work vehicle comprising:
at least one motor to drive one or both of a travelling device and a working device included in a vehicle; an operation section to direct a rotational speed or actuation of the motor; a control section to control the motor according to an operation of the operation section; and a battery to supply power to the motor, wherein the control section decreases an upper limit of rotational speed of the motor, based on a detected result with regard to a battery condition including a voltage of the battery.

2 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in a case where a change amount in voltage of the battery from a reference voltage or a magnitude of a change rate of voltage of the battery to the reference voltage is a first threshold or higher, the control section decreases the upper limit of rotational speed of the motor to a set first rotational speed limit.

3 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein, each time a change in voltage of the battery occurs, the control section adjusts the upper limit of rotational speed of the motor according to a change amount from a reference voltage or a magnitude of a change rate to the reference voltage.

4 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein the battery condition includes a remaining charge amount of the battery, and wherein, each time a change in voltage of the battery occurs, the control section adjusts the upper limit of rotational speed of the motor according to a change amount from a reference voltage or a change rate to the reference voltage, and the remaining charge amount.

5 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprising
a battery monitoring device to monitor the battery condition, wherein the control section decreases an upper limit of target rotational speed of the motor so as to decrease an upper limit of actual rotational speed, based on a detected result with regard to the battery condition from the battery monitoring device.

6 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one motor is a travel motor which drives the at least one travelling device and a work motor which drives the at least one working device.

7 . An electric work vehicle comprising:
at least one motor to drive one or both of a travelling device and a working device included in a vehicle; an operation section to direct torque or actuation of the motor; a control section to control the motor according to an operation of the operation section; and a battery to supply power to the motor, wherein the control section decreases an upper limit of torque of the motor, based on a detected result with regard to a battery condition including a voltage of the battery.

8 . An electric work vehicle comprising:
a travel motor to drive at least one travelling device; a work motor to drive at least one working device; a battery to supply power to the travel motor and the work motor, the battery having a specified maximum discharge current; and a control section to control the travel motor and the work motor, wherein the control section controls a rotational speed of the travel motor so that a discharge current of the battery does not exceed the maximum discharge current during driving of the work motor.

9 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 8 further comprising
a battery monitoring device to monitor a condition of the battery,
wherein the control section obtains the maximum discharge current from the battery monitoring device via a communication unit.

10 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 8 ,
wherein the travel motor is driven by a travel inverter, wherein the work motor is driven by a work inverter, and wherein the control section calculates the discharge current from a sum of a detected value of a discharge current from the battery to the travel inverter, which is obtained by the travel inverter, and a detected value of a discharge current from the battery to the work inverter, which is obtained by the work inverter.

11 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 8 , further comprising
a battery monitoring device to monitor a condition of the battery, wherein the control section obtains the discharge current from the battery monitoring device via a communication unit.

12 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 8 , further comprising
a sensor to measure the discharge current of the battery, wherein the control section obtains the discharge current from the sensor via a communication unit.

13 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein, regarding the battery, a plurality of battery packs are removably connected to a plurality of pack connection sections, so that the plurality of battery packs can be electrically connected in parallel, and wherein forward directional converters that can flow current only in a direction of an output from the corresponding battery packs are connected to the plurality of pack connection sections, respectively.

14 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein, regarding the battery, a plurality of battery packs are removably connected to a plurality of pack connection sections, so that the plurality of battery packs can be electrically connected in parallel, and wherein bidirectional converters that can flow current in both of a direction of an output from the corresponding battery packs and a direction of an input to the corresponding battery packs by switching therebetween are connected to the plurality of pack connection sections, respectively.

15 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 14 further comprising
a voltage sensor to detect voltages of the plurality of battery packs, respectively,
wherein, based on a detected value of the voltage sensor, whether or not voltages of two or more of the plurality of battery packs match is determined.

16 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 14 including
a current sensor to detect current values that are output from the plurality of battery packs, respectively,
wherein, based on a detected value of the current sensor, whether or not voltages of two or more of the plurality of battery packs match is determined.

17 . The electric work vehicle according to claim 15 ,
wherein, in a case where voltages of two of the battery packs match, the bidirectional converters corresponding to the battery packs whose voltages match are switched to bidirectionally conductive.

Assignees

• Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ogura Kohei
• Konoto Masaaki

Classifications

• A01D34/006 Primary

  Control or measuring arrangements · CPC title

• B60L15/20

  for control of the vehicle or its driving motor to achieve a desired performance, e.g. speed, torque, programmed variation of speed · CPC title

• B60L58/18

  of two or more battery modules · CPC title

• B60L50/66

  Arrangements of batteries · CPC title

• B60L58/12

  responding to state of charge [SoC] · CPC title