Control system of a hydraulic construction machine

• US 20020014075A1
• Filed: 06/26/2001
• Published: 02/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Inventors: Kawamura, Kouichi, Sawada, Hiroshi, Fuchita, Seiichi
• Granted Patent: US 6,560,962 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 60/468
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 11/163 for sharing the pump output equally amongst users or groups of users, e.g. using anti-saturation, pressure compensation
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 21/082 with different modes
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/20546 variable capacity
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/253 Pressure margin control, e.g. pump pressure in relation to load pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/3054 the pressure compensating valve is arranged between directional control valve and output member
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/31541 having a single pressure source and multiple output members
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/329 actuated by fluid pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/6054 using shuttle valves
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/6309 the pressure being a pressure source supply pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/6316 the pressure being a pilot pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/6346 representing a state of input means, e.g. joystick position
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/654 the load sensing pressure being lower than the load pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 31/02 using pumps with pistons or plungers working in cylinders

Abstract

The present invention provides for a control system 20 of a hydraulic construction machine for enhancing a responsibility and stability of a work implement movement The control system 20 comprises a variable displacement type hydraulic pump 2, a hydraulic actuator 7 driven by hydraulic fluid delivered from the pump 2, a flow control valve 5 for controlling the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuator 7 in response to a an amount of an operating lever 8, the variable bleed valve 14 disposed in the bleed-off hydraulic circuit 13 through which exhausts the hydraulic fluid supplied to the hydraulic actuator 7 and a controller 15 for controlling the flow rate through the variable bleed valve 14. The controller 15 of the variable bleed valve 14 includes a storage unit 15c for storing multiple function as an opening area function which determines the optimum amount of the exhausted fluid through the variable bleed valve 14 in response to the amount of an external command signal 50 through a monitor 16.

Claims

1. A control system of a hydraulic construction machine having a variable displacement type hydraulic pump, a hydraulic actuator driven by hydraulic fluid delivered from the pump, a flow control valve for controlling the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid in response to a travel amount of a manually operable lever to the hydraulic actuator, a variable bleed-off valve disposed in a bleed-off hydraulic circuit which exhausts the hydraulic fluid supplied to the hydraulic actuator, and a controller of the variable bleed-off valve for controlling the flow rate of the exhausted fluid through the variable bleed-off valve,

wherein said controller contains a storage unit for storing a plurality of functions as a function of opening area function which determine the desired flow rate of the exhausted fluid through said variable bleed-off valve to the reservoir by the actuation of said manually operable lever which is connected to the said controller.

2. The control system for a hydraulic construction machine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said storage unit contains an opening area of the variable bleed-off valve, correlated with delivery pressure of the variable displacement type hydraulic main pump.

3. The control system for a hydraulic construction machine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said storage unit contains an opening area of the variable bleed-off valve, correlated with an elapsed time after actuation of the hydraulic actuator.

4. The control system for a hydraulic construction machine as set forth in claim 1, wherein said storage unit contains an opening area of the variable bleed-off valve, correlated with a spool stroke of said flow control valve.

5. A control system of a hydraulic construction machine having a variable displacement type hydraulic pump, a hydraulic actuator driven by hydraulic fluid delivered from the pump, a flow control valve for controlling the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid in response to a travel amount of a manually operable lever to the hydraulic actuator, a variable bleed-off valve disposed in a bleed-off hydraulic circuit which exhausts the hydraulic fluid supplied to hydraulic actuator, and a controller of the variable bleed-off valve for controlling the flow rate of the exhausted fluid through the variable bleed-off valve,

wherein said controller contains a storage unit for storing the associated amount of the opening area of the variable bleed-off valve correlated with the delivery pressure of said hydraulic main pump, for maintaining a determined amount if a delivery pressure PP of the hydraulic main pump is less than a neutral pressure P1, for decreasing as the PP increases if PP exceeds and is equal to P1 or be less than a relief pressure P2, and for maintaining a determined amount indicated of the opening area of the variable bleed-off valve at the relief point in the system pressure if the delivery pressure PP exceeds P1.