Transportation vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9764672-B1
Application number	US-201715409571-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jan 19, 2017
Priority date	Mar 14, 2016
Publication date	Sep 19, 2017
Grant date	Sep 19, 2017

Abstract

An object is to restrain a hoist shaft and a bushing of a hoist cylinder from abrading. A haulage vehicle with a pivoting vessel has a telescoping hoist cylinder provided between the vessel and the vehicle. Supply of hydraulic oil to the hoist cylinder is controlled by a valve provided between the hydraulic power source and the hoist cylinder. The haulage vehicle is provided with a bushing at one end portion of the hoist cylinder; a hoist shaft is mounted in a through bore of the bushing; a lubricant supplier supplies lubricant to a clearance between a surface of the hoist shaft and an internal surface of the through bore of the bushing; and when the vessel is seated on the vehicle, a controller controls the valve to make the hoist cylinder contract and also supply lubricant to the clearance.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A haulage vehicle having a vessel pivotably provided relative to the vehicle, a hoist cylinder provided telescopically between the vessel and the vehicle, a hydraulic power source that supplies the hoist cylinder with hydraulic oil, and a valve provided between the hydraulic power source and the hoist cylinder for controlling the flow of hydraulic oil supplied to the hoist cylinder, the haulage vehicle comprising:
a bushing provided at one end portion of the hoist cylinder;
a hoist shaft provided in the vehicle and mounted in a through bore of the bushing;
a lubricant supplier that supplies lubricant to a clearance between a surface of the hoist shaft and an internal surface of the through bore of the bushing;
a seating detection device that detects whether the vessel is seated on the vehicle or not; and
a controller that when the vessel is seated on the vehicle, controls the valve to make the hoist cylinder contract and also controls the lubricant supplier to supply lubricant to the clearance.

2. The haulage vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is provided with:
a seating judgment section for judging that the vessel has proceeded from a non-seated state of the vessel being not seated on the vehicle to a seated state of the vessel being seated on the vehicle; and
a lubricant supply control section that when a movement from the non-seated state to the seated state is judged by the seating judgment section, controls the valve to make the hoist cylinder contract and then controls the lubricant supplier to supply lubricant to the clearance.

3. The haulage vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is provided with a lubricant supply control section that each time a predetermined period of time elapses with the vessel seated on the vehicle, controls the valve to make the hoist cylinder contract and then controls the lubricant supplier to supply lubricant to the clearance.

4. The haulage vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein:
the valve has a plurality of switching positions including a rise position in which the hoist cylinder is extended through a supply and discharge of hydraulic oil to lift up the vessel, a fall position in which the hoist cylinder is made to contract through the supply and discharge of hydraulic oil to pivotally move the vessel downward, a floating position in which the vessel is allowed to fall by its gravity, and a hold position in which the movement of the hoist cylinder is discontinued by stopping the supply and discharge of hydraulic oil; and
the controller is provided with a valve control section that switches the switching position of the valve to the floating position after the lubricant supplier supplies lubricant to the clearance.

5. The haulage vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein
the bushing is a cylindrical member, and is provided with: a groove that is provided on a surface of the bushing in a circumferential direction for leading the lubricant supplied from the lubricant supplier; and a hole provided in the groove for leading the lubricant supplied to the groove to the clearance.

Assignees

• Hitachi Construction Mach Co

Inventors

• Ohno Akira
• Shimomura Hirokazu
• Minoshima Toshikazu

Classifications

• B60P1/16 Primary

  actuated by fluid-operated mechanisms · CPC title

• B60P1/22 Primary

  with cables, chains, or the like · CPC title

• B60P1/162 Primary

  the hydraulic system itself · CPC title

• B60R17/02

  Systems, e.g. central lubrication systems · CPC title