Work vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9919697-B2
Application number	US-201615356737-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2016
Priority date	Mar 28, 2016
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

Abstract

A torque upper limit value changing section increases an upper limit value of a torque instruction value in a powering range in case a rotational speed reduction degree is greater than a reference value and decreases the upper limit value of the torque instruction value in the powering range in case the rotational speed reduction degree is smaller than the reference value.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A work vehicle comprising:
a traveling device having a pair of left and right front wheels that can be driven and a pair of left and right rear wheels that can be driven;
an engine that drives either one pair of the pair of left and right front wheels and the pair of left and right rear wheels;
an electric motor that drives the other pair of the pair of left and right front wheels and the pair of left and right rear wheels;
a battery for supplying electric power to the electric motor;
a controller configured to control the electric motor based on relation between a rotational speed of the electric motor and a torque instruction value;
a front-wheel rotational speed detection sensor for detecting a rotational speed of the front wheels; and
a rear-wheel rotational speed detection sensor for detecting a rotational speed of the rear wheels;
wherein the controller includes:
a rotational speed reduction degree calculating section for calculating, based on a detection value from the front-wheel rotational speed detection sensor and a detection value from the rear-wheel rotational speed detection sensor, a rotational speed reduction degree which is a degree of reduction of the rotational speed of either the front wheels or the rear wheels that are driven by the electric motor relative to a rotational speed of either the front wheels or the rear wheels that are driven by the engine;
a torque upper limit value changing section for changing an upper limit value of the torque instruction value, based on result of comparison between the rotational speed reduction degree and a reference value; and

wherein the torque upper limit value changing section is configured to increase the upper limit value of the torque instruction value in a powering range in case the rotational speed reduction degree is greater than the reference value and to decrease the upper limit value of the torque instruction value in the powering range in case the rotational speed reduction degree is smaller than the reference value.

2. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the torque upper limit value changing section is configured to decrease the upper limit value of the torque instruction value in a regeneration range in case the rotational speed reduction degree is greater than the reference value and to increase the upper limit value of the torque instruction value in the regeneration range in case the rotational speed reduction degree is smaller than the reference value.

3. The work vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the rotational speed reduction degree calculating section is configured to calculate the rotational speed reduction degree by subtracting the rotational speed of either the front wheels or the rear wheels that are driven by the electric motor from the rotational speed of either the front wheels or the rear wheels that are driven by the engine.

Assignees

• Kubota Kk

Inventors

• Miyashita Shunsuke
• Yamanaka Yukifumi

Classifications

• Y10S903/916

  with plurality of drive axles · CPC title

• B60K2001/001

  one motor mounted on a propulsion axle for rotating right and left wheels of this axle · CPC title

• B60Y2200/40

  Special vehicles · CPC title

• B60K17/356

  having fluid or electric motor, for driving one or more wheels · CPC title

• B60K17/354

  having separate mechanical assemblies for transmitting drive to the front or to the rear wheels or set of wheels · CPC title