Battery-driven hydraulic excavator

• US 6,078,855 A
• Filed: 06/17/1997
• Issued: 06/20/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Klaus Schmidt
• Original Assignee: Klaus Schmidt
• Inventors: Kinugawa, Hideki, Komiyama, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TAN QUANG
• Application Number:
  US08/877,554
• Time in Patent Office: 1,099 Days
• Field of Search: 701/50, 37/348, 37/382, 60/400, 60/420, 60/431, 60/493
• US Class Current: 701/50
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/207 of the type electric propulsion units, e.g. electric motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/22 Hydraulic or pneumatic drives for dipper or bucket arm position control E02F3/43, for blade position control for graders E02F3/844; for turntables E02F9/121; for fork-lift trucks B66F9/22

Abstract

There are provided an electric motor driven by (electric) power from a battery; a hydraulic pump driven by the electric motor; a hydraulic motor driven by operating oil discharged from the hydraulic pump; an operating member for performing a predetermined operation by the drive of the hydraulic motor; and operating levers for operating the operating member by switching a flow and a shut-off of the operating oil discharged from the hydraulic pump. The operating levers are operatable between a neutral position at which the hydraulic motor stops operation and an operating position at which the hydraulic motor operates. An accel-trimmer is provided to adjust the supply amount of power from the battery to the electric motor in the state where the operating levers are operated to the operating position.

Claims

1. A battery-driven hydraulic excavator comprising:

a lower carriage;

an upper rotating body provided rotatably around a vertical shaft on the lower carriage;

a battery;

an electric motor driven by power from said battery;

a hydraulic pump driven by said electric motor, said hydraulic pump, said electric motor and said battery being mounted interiorly of said upper rotating body;

an actuator driven by operating oil discharged from said hydraulic pump;

an operating member operated by the drive of said actuator; and

operating levers for operating said operating members through said actuator by switching a flow and a shut-off of the operating oil discharged from said hydraulic pump, said operating levers and said operating member being mounted on said upper rotating body.

2. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 1, wherein said operating levers are constituted to be operatable between a neutral position at which said operating member stops operation and an operating position at which said operating members operate.

3. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 2, further comprising:

setting means for setting an amount of power supply from said battery to said electric motor, and control means for controlling the amount of power supply to the electric motor according to the operating amount of said setting means.

4. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 1, further comprising:

control means for controlling the amount of power supply to the electric motor.

5. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 3, further comprising an accel-trimmer connected to the control means for setting an amount of power supply from said battery to said electric motor.

6. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 2, further comprising:

an operating amount detection means for detecting an operating amount of the operating lever at the operating position of said operating lever; and

a second control means for stopping a power supply from the battery to the electric motor in a state where the operating lever is operated to the neutral position, and for supplying power from the battery to the electric motor according to the operating amount detected by said operating amount detection means in a state where the operating lever is operated to the operating position.

7. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 2, further comprising:

a third control means for stopping a power supply from the battery to the electric motor in a state where all of the operating levers are set to the neutral position, and for supplying power to the electric motor according to the sum of the operating amounts of the operating levers set to the operating position in a state where at least one operating lever is set to the operating position.

8. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 2, further comprising:

an operation mode setting means for changing a supply amount of power to the electric motor according to a kind of operations in a state where said operating levers are set to the operating position.

9. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 2, wherein power is supplied from the battery to the electric motor at a predetermined change rate according to the operating amount of the operating levers.

10. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 8, further comprising:

an operation mode setting means for changing a supply amount of power to the electric motor according to a kind of operations in a state where said operating levers are set to the operating position.

11. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 10, wherein said operating mode setting means is constituted to set said change rate according to the kind of operations input.

12. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 3, wherein said control means comprises a pulse width modulation control means.

13. The hydraulic excavator according to claim 12, wherein said control means does not include a variable resistor.