Hybrid construction machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9873349-B2
Application number	US-201615013221-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 2, 2016
Priority date	Feb 26, 2015
Publication date	Jan 23, 2018
Grant date	Jan 23, 2018

Abstract

A first warming-up control unit calculates warming-up time charging power from a power storage SOC and power storage temperature and causes a generator motor to perform power generation operation thereby charging a power storage unit on the basis of the calculated warming-up time charging power. A second warming-up control unit applies, during the power generation operation, a hydraulic load to a hydraulic pump by a hydraulic load unit and performs horsepower control of the hydraulic pump using a value obtained by subtracting the warming-up time charging power from preset warming-up time pump horsepower.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hybrid construction machine comprising:
an engine;
a generator motor that is driven by the engine;
a hydraulic pump of a variable capacity type that is driven by the engine;
a power storage unit that is charged by power generation operation of the generator motor;
a power storage temperature detecting unit that detects power storage temperature, which is a temperature of the power storage unit;
a power storage SOC detecting unit that detects a power storage SOC, which is a charging state of the power storage unit;
a pump-pressure detecting unit that detects a pump pressure for horsepower control of the hydraulic pump;
a hydraulic load unit that applies a hydraulic load to the hydraulic pump; and
a control unit that performs warming-up control for raising temperatures of the power storage unit and the hydraulic oil, wherein
the control unit includes:
a first warming-up control unit that calculates warming-up time charging power, which is charging power during warming up from the power storage SOC and the power storage temperature, and causes the generator motor to perform the power generation operation, thereby charging the power storage unit on the basis of the calculated warming-up time charging power, wherein the first warming-up control unit includes an inverter and a power-storage warming-up control unit, the first warming-up control unit calculates a torque command for actuating the generator motor as the generator with the calculated warming-up time charging power, and the inverter actuates the generator motor as the generator with the warming-up time charging power indicated by the torque command, thereby performing the warming-up control; and
a second warming-up control unit that applies, during the power generation operation, the hydraulic load to the hydraulic pump by the hydraulic load unit and performs the horsepower control of the hydraulic pump using a value obtained by subtracting the warming-up time charging power from preset warming-up time pump horsepower.

2. The hybrid construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein the first warming-up control unit calculates warming-up discharging power, which is discharging power during warming-up from the power storage SOC and the power storage temperature, and causes the generator motor to perform assist operation of the engine on the basis of the calculated warming-up time discharging power.

3. The hybrid construction machine according to claim 2 , wherein, during the assist operation, the first warming-up control unit performs horsepower control of the hydraulic pump using a value obtained by adding the warming-up time discharging power to the warming-up time pump horsepower.

4. The hybrid construction machine according to claim 2 , wherein the first warming-up control unit causes the generator motor to alternately perform the power generation operation and the assist operation.

5. The hybrid construction machine according to claim 1 , wherein the first warming-up control unit starts the warming-up when the power storage temperature detected by the power storage temperature detecting unit drops to a preset warming-up start temperature or less.

Assignees

• Kobelco Constr Mach Co Ltd

Inventors

• Doi Takayuki
• Kamimura Yusuke

Classifications

• B60W2710/30

  Auxiliary equipments · CPC title

• E02F9/2075 Primary

  of the hybrid type (for vehicles in general B60W20/00) · CPC title

• B60W2510/244

  Charge state · CPC title

• B60W10/26

  for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors · CPC title

• E02F9/226

  Safety arrangements, e.g. hydraulic driven fans, preventing cavitation, leakage, overheating · CPC title