Engine cooling apparatus

• US 7,216,608 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2005
• Issued: 05/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Denyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Denyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Fujie, Katsuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Cronin; Stephen K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ali; Hyder
• Application Number:
  US11/166,241
• Publication Number:
  US 20050284423A1
• Time in Patent Office: 687 Days
• Field of Search: 123/41.12, 123/41.49, 123/41.65, 123/41.56, 165/41, 165/51
• US Class Current: 123/41.12
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2025/08 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2025/13 Ambient temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2025/60 Operating parameters
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2025/62 Load
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2025/64 Number of revolutions
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 7/048 using electrical drives
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 63/04 for electric generators

Abstract

It is an object of the invention to provide an engine cooling apparatus that cools an engine according to an operation state of an engine driven work machine. The invention provides an engine cooling apparatus that is adapted to, in an engine drive work machine including an engine and a work machine driven by the engine, cool a radiator of the engine with an electric fan, the engine cooling apparatus including: at least one sensor that senses an operation state of the engine; and a control device that has an inverter, which uses a detection signal of the sensor as an input and the electric fan as a load, and performs operation control for the electric fan according to the operation state of the engine.

Claims

1. An engine cooling apparatus in an engine drive work machine including an engine and a work machine driven by the engine, for cooling a radiator of the engine with an electric fan, the engine cooling apparatus comprising:

at least two sensors sensing two or more of a load on the work machine, a number of revolutions of the engine, temperature of cooling water for the engine, and an outside air temperature, and

a control device has a function of, when there are two or more contents of control that are obtained on the basis of outputs of the sensors, selecting one of the contents of control in a high-order priority selection operation.

2. The engine cooling apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sensors output at least three stages of outputs, including low, medium and high outputs, respectively.

3. The engine cooling apparatus of claim 1, wherein the electric fan is controlled at at least three stages including ultra low speed, light load stage and heavy load stage according to the high-order priority selection operation.