Working machine

• US 7,753,455 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2006
• Issued: 07/13/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Linde Material Handling GmbH (Superlift Holding SARL)
• Original Assignee: Linde Material Handling GmbH (Superlift Holding SARL)
• Inventors: Binev, Binio
• Primary Examiner(s): TORRES WILLIAMS, MELANIE
• Application Number:
  US11/443,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20060284478A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,505 Days
• Field of Search: 188 2- 4, 188 10- 12, 188/DIG.4, 188/358, 303 2- 4, 303 10- 12, 303/DIG.4
• US Class Current: 303/11
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 13/22 Brakes applied by springs or weights and released hydraulically

Abstract

A working machine, such as an industrial truck, has working hydraulics, a hydraulic steering device, and a spring-loaded brake. The brake has a braking position and a release position and can be acted upon by a brake-release pressure, which is passed in a brake line, so as to be brought into the release position. A hydraulic pump is provided for the supply to the working hydraulics and the steering device and for producing the brake-release pressure of the spring-loaded brake. The brake line of the spring-loaded brake is connected to a delivery branch line, which is connected to the pump, of the steering device.

Claims

1. A working machine, comprising:

working hydraulics;

a hydraulic steering device;

a spring-loaded brake, the brake having a braking position and a release position, the brake being acted upon by a brake-release pressure passed via a brake line so as to be brought into the release position; and

a hydraulic pump provided for supplying fluid to the working hydraulics and the steering device and for producing the brake-release pressure of the spring-loaded brake,

wherein the brake line of the spring-loaded brake is connected to a delivery branch line of the steering device that is connected to the pump.

2. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein the delivery branch line of the steering device is connected to the output of a priority valve, to the output side of which a delivery branch line of the working hydraulics is connected and to the input side of which a delivery line, which is connected to the pump, is connected, and

wherein the priority valve is acted upon by a load pressure of the steering device or the brake-release pressure arising in the brake line in the direction of a switching position, which connects the delivery line of the pump to the delivery branch line of the steering device.

3. The working machine according to claim 2, wherein the brake line is connected to the input of a shuttle valve device, the shuttle valve device being connected on the input side to a load pressure signal line that carries the load pressure of the steering device, and on the output side to a branch line that acts upon the priority valve in the direction of the switching position that connects the delivery line of the pump to the delivery branch line of the steering device.

4. The working machine according to claim 3, including a branch line that leads to the shuttle valve device, wherein the branch line of the shuttle valve device is connected to the brake line, and wherein a blocking valve, which opens in the direction towards the spring-loaded brake, is arranged downstream of the connection of the branch line to the brake line.

5. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein the brake line is connected to the delivery branch line of the steering device by a pressure-reducing device.

6. The working machine according to claim 2, wherein the working hydraulics include an associated safety device which, in a safety position, connects the delivery branch line of the working hydraulics to a tank and/or relieves the control pressure supply of the control valves that control the consumers of the working hydraulics to the tank.

7. The working machine according to claim 6, wherein the safety device includes a safety valve, which is actuated electrically by a switching magnet, the safety valve having a safety position in which a load pressure signal line of the working hydraulics that is connected to a delivery flow regulating device of the working hydraulics in the form of a pressure balance that controls the connection of the delivery branch line of the working hydraulics to the tank and/or a control pressure supply line for the control valves of the working hydraulics is connected to the tank, and wherein the safety valve has an operating position in which the connection of the load pressure signal line to the tank is blocked and/or the control pressure supply line is connected to a control pressure supply.

8. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein the working machine is an industrial truck.

9. The working machine according to claim 4, wherein the blocking valve is a non-return valve.

10. The working machine according to claim 5, wherein the pressure-reducing device comprises a pressure reduction valve.