Construction Machine

• US 20100139255A1
• Filed: 05/28/2008
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kamiya, Shohei, Nakamura, Kazunori, Arai, Yasushi
• Granted Patent: US 8,096,382 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 60/287
• CPC Class Codes: B01D 2251/2067 Urea
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/00 Component parts of dredgers or soil-shifting machines, not restricted to one of the kinds covered by groups E02F3/00 - E02F7/00 laying-out or take-up devices for trailing electric cables B66C
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/0808 Improving mounting or assembling, e.g. frame elements, disposition of all the components on the superstructures for disposition of specific components, E02F9/0858
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2203 Arrangements for controlling the attitude of actuators, e.g. speed, floating function
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2246 Control of prime movers, e.g. depending on the hydraulic load of work tools
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2610/02 the substance being ammonia or urea
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 2900/1814 Tank level
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 3/2066 Selective catalytic reduction [SCR]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

[PROBLEM] To provide a construction machine capable of performing necessary operation or operations without a difficulty even when a remaining amount of a reducing agent becomes small.

[SOLUTION] In a hydraulic excavator having an engine, a hydraulic cylinder (18), plural actuators including a hydraulic motor (29), and an exhaust gas treatment system for subjecting, to purification treatment, nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas from the engine, the hydraulic excavator is provided with an actuator operation control means for performing, when the remaining amount of the reducing agent in a reducing agent storage tank (30) is detected by a remaining reducing-agent amount detector (33) to have become equal to or smaller than a predetermined remaining amount, limiting control to limit an operation of the hydraulic cylinder (18) such that a front working implement driven by the hydraulic cylinder (18) becomes difficult to exhibit its function, and at a same time, holding control for holding the hydraulic motor (20) operable such that a function of a travel base (1) or swing upperstructure (3) driven by the hydraulic motor (20) can be exhibited.

Claims

1. A construction machine having:

an engine, a power source drivable by the engine, and plural actuators drivable by power fed from the power source, said actuators including a predetermined actuator, and

an exhaust gas treatment system arranged in an exhaust passage from the engine, and comprising a reduction catalyst for reducing and purifying nitrogen oxides in exhaust gas with the reducing agent, a reducing agent storage tank, and a remaining reducing-agent amount detector for detecting a remaining amount of the reducing agent stored in the reducing agent storage tank, characterized in that;

the construction machine is provided with an actuator operation control means for performing, when the remaining amount of the reducing agent in the reducing agent storage tank is detected by the remaining reducing-agent amount detector to have become equal to or smaller than a predetermined remaining amount, limiting control to limit an operation of the predetermined actuator such that a load driven by the predetermined actuator becomes difficult to exhibit a function thereof, and at a same time, holding control for holding the at least one other actuator, which is different from the predetermined actuator, operable such that a function of another load driven by the at least one other actuator can be exhibited.

2. The invention as defined in claim 1, wherein the limiting control performed by the actuator operation control means is control that inhibits the operation of the predetermined actuator.

3. The invention as defined in claim 1, wherein the holding control performed by the actuator operation control means is control that enables an operation of the at least one other actuator at a normal speed free from any speed limitation to the at least one other actuator.

4. The invention as defined in claim 1, wherein:

the at least one other actuator is the travel actuator or swing actuator, and

the predetermined actuator is an actuator different from the travel actuator or swing actuator.

5. The invention as defined in claim 4, wherein:

the construction machine is a hydraulic excavator, and

the predetermined actuator is an actuator for driving a front working implement.

6. The invention as defined in claim 2, wherein:

the at least one other actuator is the travel actuator or swing actuator, and

the predetermined actuator is an actuator different from the travel actuator or swing actuator.

7. The invention as defined in claim 3, wherein:

the at least one other actuator is the travel actuator or swing actuator, and

the predetermined actuator is an actuator different from the travel actuator or swing actuator.