Work vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9045045-B2
Application number	US-201314232742-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2013
Priority date	Feb 28, 2013
Publication date	Jun 2, 2015
Grant date	Jun 2, 2015

Abstract

A work vehicle is provided with a traveling motor, and includes a first control unit generating a speed command value for controlling the motor and changing the speed command value according to passage of time when an opening of an accelerator that adjusts a traveling speed is larger than 0, and assigning an actual traveling speed of the work vehicle to a relationship between a torque command value that is a command value of torque to be generated by the motor and the traveling speed of the work vehicle to generate a first torque command value; and a second control unit generating a second torque command value based on the speed command value generated by the first control unit and the actual traveling speed, and controlling the motor based on the first torque command value or the second torque command value.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A work vehicle at least provided with a traveling motor, comprising:
a first control unit configured to generate a speed command value for controlling the motor and to change the speed command value according to passage of time when an opening of an accelerator that adjusts a traveling speed is larger than 0, and further to generate a first torque command value by assigning an actual traveling speed of the work vehicle to a relationship between a torque command value that is a command value of torque to be generated by the motor and the traveling speed of the work vehicle; and
a second control unit configured to generate a second torque command value based on the speed command value generated by the first control unit and the actual traveling speed, and to control the motor based on either the first torque command value or the second torque command value; wherein the first control unit is configured to obtains a speed from the first torque command value and the actual traveling speed, and to determine that the second control unit controls the motor based on the first torque command value when the speed is the speed command value or less, and the second control unit controls the motor based on the second torque command value when the speed is larger than the speed command value.

2. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the first control unit is configured to cause an absolute value of the speed command value to be larger according to passage of time when the second control unit controls the motor using the second torque command value.

3. The work vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein the first control unit is configured to change a change of the speed command value with respect to passage of time based on the opening of the accelerator.

4. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein when the second control unit controls the motor using the first torque command value, the first control unit is configured to cause an absolute value of the speed command value to be smaller when a difference between the speed command value and the actual traveling speed becomes a predetermined threshold or more.

5. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the first control unit and the second control unit are configured to exchange information through communication.

6. A work vehicle at least provided with a traveling motor, comprising:
a first control unit configured to generate a speed command value for controlling the motor and to causes an absolute value of the speed command value to be larger according to passage of time when an opening of an accelerator that adjusts a traveling speed is larger than 0, and further to assign an actual traveling speed of the work vehicle to a first relationship between a torque command value that is a command value of torque to be generated by the motor and the traveling speed of the work vehicle to generate a first torque command value; and
a second control unit configured to exchange information with the first control unit through communication and to assign the actual traveling speed to a second relationship between the torque command value and the traveling speed based on the speed command value generated by the first control unit to generate a second torque command value, and to control the motor based on either the first torque command value or the second torque command value; wherein the first control unit is configured to obtains a speed from the first torque command value and the actual traveling speed, and to determine that the second control unit controls the motor based on the first torque command value when the speed is the speed command value or less, and the second control unit controls the motor based on the second torque command value when the speed is larger than the speed command value.

Assignees

• Komatsu Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• Onodera Yoshitaka
• Kikuyama Yuji
• Nagashima Yoshiaki
• Kijima Hiroyuki

Classifications

• B60L15/2072

  for drive off · CPC title

• B60L15/10 Primary

  for automatic control superimposed on human control to limit the acceleration of the vehicle, e.g. to prevent excessive motor current (electric devices for safety purposes B60L3/00) · CPC title

• B66F9/07572

  Propulsion arrangements · CPC title

• B60L2250/16

  by display · CPC title

• B60L50/51

  characterised by AC-motors · CPC title