Rotation control device and working machine therewith

• US 8,190,334 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2008
• Issued: 05/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Company Limited (Kobe Steel Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Company Limited (Kobe Steel Limited)
• Inventors: Kagoshima, Masayuki, Tsutsui, Akira, Komiyama, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): PEZZUTO, ROBERT ERIC
• Application Number:
  US12/034,331
• Publication Number:
  US 20080201045A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,560 Days
• Field of Search: 373/47, 373/48, 172 2- 11, 414699-724, 701/50, 318/372, 318/461, 318/799, 318/822, 318/823, 318/151, 318/114, 318/801, 417/12, 417/34, 417/25, 417/42, 417/44.1
• US Class Current: 701/50
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/123 Drives or control devices specially adapted therefor E02F9/125 and E02F9/128 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/128 Braking systems
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2075 of the hybrid type for vehicles in general B60W20/00
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2095 Control of electric, electro-mechanical or mechanical equipment not otherwise provided for, e.g. ventilators, electro-driven fans control of hydraulic driven equipment E02F9/22

Abstract

An excavator has a controller capable of setting target torque of a rotation motor in accordance with a speed deviation between target speed set in accordance with an operation amount of an operating lever and actual rotation speed and is provided with an inverter for detecting necessary torque for rotating an upper rotating body, the necessary torque being changed in accordance with a working state of the upper rotating body. The controller calculates a correction amount which is increased as increasing the torque and subtracts the correction amount from the target speed so as to set new target speed. A controller sets first target torque for driving the motor and second target torque for maintaining the upper rotating body on the spot on the basis of the actual speed, and operates the motor in accordance with the torque which has a larger absolute value in the same direction as the first target torque among both the torque.

Claims

1. A rotation control device of working machine having a main body, a rotating body rotatably mounted on said main body and a working attachment provided in said rotating body so as to be raised and lowered, comprising:

an electric motor for rotating and driving said rotating body;

operation means for receiving an input operation of a drive instruction to said electric motor;

operation amount detection means for detecting an operation amount of said operation means;

speed detection means for detecting rotation speed of said electric motor; and

control means for setting target speed of said electric motor on the basis of the operation amount detected by said operation amount detection means, setting target torque on the basis of a speed deviation between the target speed and the speed detected by said speed detection means, and operating said electric motor in accordance with the target torque, wherein

said control means is provided with correction means for calculating a correction amount which is increased as increasing necessary torque for rotating said rotating body, said necessary torque being changed in accordance with a working state of said rotating body, and subtracting the correction amount from the target speed so as to make new target speed.

2. The rotation control device of working machine according to claim 1, wherein

said correction means calculates a correction amount which is decreased as increasing the operation amount of said operation means.

3. The rotation control device of working machine according to claim 1, wherein

said control means is formed so as to set the target torque for a predetermined cycle, and said correction means utilizes the target torque set in the previous cycle as a correspondent to the necessary torque of said rotating body to be used for the present cycle, and calculates the correction amount.

4. A working machine, comprising:

a main body;

a rotating body rotatably mounted on said main body; and

the rotation control device according to claim 1.

5. A rotation control device of working machine having a main body, a rotating body rotatably mounted on said main body and a working attachment provided in said rotating body so as to be raised and lowered, comprising:

an electric motor for rotating and driving said rotating body;

operation means for receiving an input operation of a drive instruction to said electric motor;

operation amount detection means for detecting an operation amount of said operation means;

speed detection means for detecting rotation speed of said electric motor; and

control means for setting first target torque for driving said electric motor at target speed corresponding to the operation amount detected by said operation amount detection means, setting second target torque for maintaining said rotating body on the spot on the basis of actual speed detected by said speed detection means, and operating said electric motor in accordance with torque which has a larger absolute value in the same direction as the first target torque among the first target torque and the second target torque.

6. The rotation control device of working machine according to claim 5, wherein

said control means is provided with target speed setting means for setting the target speed on the basis of the operation amount detected by said operation amount detection means, first torque calculation means for calculating the first target torque on the basis of a speed deviation between the target speed and actual speed detected by said speed detection means, and target torque setting means for setting the torque which has a larger absolute value in the same direction as the first target torque among the first target torque and the second target torque as the next target torque.

7. The rotation control device of working machine according to claim 6, wherein

said control means is further provided with second torque calculation means for calculating torque to be given to said electric motor in order to make the actual speed zero as the second target torque.

8. The rotation control device of working machine according to claim 7, wherein

said first torque calculation means and said second torque calculation means are adapted to calculate the first target torque and the second target torque on the basis of expressions having a proportional term and an integral term respectively, and said control means is provided with gain change means capable of changing an amount of gain by which the proportional term and the integral term are multiplied.

9. A working machine, comprising:

a main body;

a rotating body rotatably mounted on said main body; and

the rotation control device according to claim 5.