Cooling system for construction machine

• US 8,505,499 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2010
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Matsushita, Makoto, Mamada, Tomonori, Hirasawa, Shigeru
• Primary Examiner(s): Kamen, Noah
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Long T
• Application Number:
  US12/851,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20110088637A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: 123/41.31, 123/41.3, 123/43.34, 123/41.01, 123/41.49, 123/41.11, 123/41.63, 123/41.65
• US Class Current: 123/41.31
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 11/04 Arrangement or mounting of radiators, radiator shutters, or radiator blinds B60K11/085 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2200/412 Excavators
• 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 9/0866 Engine compartment, e.g. heat exchangers, exhaust filters, cooling devices, silencers, mufflers, position of hydraulic pumps in the engine compartment
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 2003/187 arranged in series
• CPC Class Codes: F01P 3/18 Arrangements or mounting of liquid-to-air heat-exchangers such arrangements on cylinders or cylinder heads F01P3/04; relative to vehicles B60K11/04
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 29/0431 Details or means to guide the ambient air to the heat exchanger, e.g. having a fan, flaps, a bypass or a special location in the engine compartment
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 29/0456 Air cooled heat exchangers
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 29/0475 the intake air cooler being combined with another device, e.g. heater, valve, compressor, filter or EGR cooler, or being assembled on a special engine location
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 31/20 for cooling F02M31/005 takes precedence; use of cold F02M17/52; cooling of charging-air or of scavenging-air F02B29/04
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10131 Ducts situated in more than one plane; Ducts of one plane crossing ducts of another plane
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 35/10347 Moulding, casting or the like
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

A radiator and an oil cooler are arranged at a front surface side of a cooling fan in parallel with each other in a flow direction of the cooling air, an intercooler and a condenser are arranged in parallel at a front surface side of the radiator and oil cooler, and a fuel cooler is arranged at a front surface side of the condenser. By arranging respective heat exchangers such that the heat release amount thereof sequentially increases from the upstream side toward the downstream side in the flow direction of the cooling air, each heat exchanger can efficiently release the heat of the fluid to be cooled. By arranging the fuel cooler at the front surface side of the condenser, two heat exchangers of the condenser and the fuel cooler can be accommodated within a range of the thickness dimension of the intercooler.

Claims

1. A construction machine comprising:

an automotive vehicle body;

a cab provided on said vehicle body and equipped with an indoor machine in an air conditioner supplying conditioned air;

an engine provided on said vehicle body and equipped with a supercharger;

a hydraulic pump which is driven by said engine to pressurize operating oil for supply;

a cooling fan which is rotated by receiving power from a power source to suck in outside air as a cooling air; and

a heat exchanger unit for cooling a liquid by passage of said cooling air sucked in by said cooling fan through said heat exchanger unit,

said heat exchanger unit including a radiator for cooling engine cooling water;

an oil cooler for cooling operating oil;

an intercooler for cooling intake air supplied from said supercharger in said engine;

a condenser serving as an outdoor machine of said air conditioner for cooling a coolant; and

a fuel cooler for cooling fuel to be supplied to said engine, said construction machine characterized in that;

said heat exchanger unit is arranged to oppose a front surface side of said cooling fan and is positioned at an upstream side, in a flow direction (A) of said cooling air being sucked in by said cooling fan, and generally parallel to said front surface side of said cooling fan;

said radiator and said oil cooler are positioned at said front surface side of said cooling fan, which position is an upstream side, in the flow direction (A) of said cooling air being sucked in by said cooling fan and are arranged in parallel with each other in the flow direction (A) of said cooling air;

said intercooler and said condenser are arranged in parallel with each other and each are arranged at a front surface side of said radiator and said oil cooler, which arrangement is upstream, in the flow direction (A) of said cooling air, from said radiator and said oil cooler;

said fuel cooler is arranged at a front surface side of said condenser, which arrangement is upstream, in the flow direction (A) of said cooling air, from said condenser; and

said fuel cooler and said condenser are arranged at the downstream side in the flow direction (A) of said cooling air from a front surface of said intercooler with reference to the front surface of said intercooler.

2. The construction machine according to claim 1, further comprising:

a dust protective net for trapping dust in said cooling air and provided at a front surface side of said intercooler, said condenser and said fuel cooler.

3. The construction machine according to claim 1, further comprising:

an inlet side air hose connecting a supercharger of said engine and an inlet opening of said intercooler; and

an outlet side air hose connecting an outlet opening of said intercooler and an intake side of said engine, wherein each said air hose adopts a molded hose formed in advance in a predetermined shape by bend molding and is arranged between said engine and said intercooler to ride over a top surface of each of said radiator and said oil cooler.

4. The construction machine according to claim 1, wherein said heat exchanger unit comprises a support body of a frame structure mounted on said vehicle body, and wherein said radiator, said oil cooler, said intercooler, said condenser and said fuel cooler are accommodated in said support body.

5. The construction machine according to claim 1, wherein said vehicle body comprises an automotive lower traveling structure and an upper revolving structure swingably mounted on said lower traveling structure, and wherein said cab, said engine, said hydraulic pump, said cooling fan and said heat exchanger unit are provided on a revolving frame serving as a support structural body of said upper revolving structure.

6. A construction machine comprising:

an automotive vehicle body;

a cab provided on said vehicle body and equipped with an indoor machine in an air conditioner supplying conditioned air;

an engine provided on said vehicle body and equipped with a supercharger;

a hydraulic pump which is driven by said engine to pressurize operating oil for supply;

a cooling fan which is rotated by receiving power from a power source to suck in outside air as a cooling air; and

a heat exchanger unit for cooling a liquid by passage of said cooling air sucked in by said cooling fan through said heat exchanger unit,

said heat exchanger unit including a radiator for cooling engine cooling water;

an oil cooler for cooling operating oil;

an intercooler for cooling intake air supplied from said supercharger in said engine;

a condenser serving as an outdoor machine of said air conditioner for cooling a coolant; and

a fuel cooler for cooling fuel to be supplied to said engine, said construction machine characterized in that;

said heat exchanger unit is arranged to oppose a front surface side of said cooling fan and is positioned at an upstream side, in a flow direction (A) of said cooling air being sucked in by said cooling fan, and said radiator, oil cooler, intercooler, condenser and fuel cooler being generally parallel to said front surface side of said cooling fan;

said radiator and said oil cooler are positioned at said front surface side of said cooling fan, which position is an upstream side, in the flow direction (A) of said cooling air being sucked in by said cooling fan and are arranged adjacent to each other and are parallel with each other at a first upstream distance from said cooling fan in the flow direction (A) of said cooling air;

said intercooler and said condenser are arranged adjacent to each other and are parallel with each other and each are arranged at a front surface side of said radiator and said oil cooler, which arrangement of said intercooler and said condenser is upstream, in the flow direction (A) of said cooling air, from said radiator and said oil cooler and at a second upstream distance, greater than said first upstream distance from said cooling fan; and

said fuel cooler is arranged parallel to said intercooler and at a front surface side of said condenser, which arrangement of said fuel cooler is upstream, in the flow direction (A) of said cooling air, from said condenser and at a third upstream distance, greater than said second upstream distance, from said cooling fan.

7. The construction machine according to claim 6, wherein said fuel cooler and said condenser are arranged at the downstream side in the flow direction (A) of said cooling air from a front surface of said intercooler with reference to the front surface of said intercooler.

8. The construction machine according to claim 6, further comprising:

a dust protective net for trapping dust in said cooling air and provided at a front surface side of said intercooler, said condenser and said fuel cooler.

9. The construction machine according to claim 6, further comprising:

an inlet side air hose connecting a supercharger of said engine and an inlet opening of said intercooler; and

an outlet side air hose connecting an outlet opening of said intercooler and an intake side of said engine, wherein each said air hose adopts a molded hose formed in advance in a predetermined shape by bend molding and is arranged between said engine and said intercooler to ride over a top surface of each of said radiator and said oil cooler.

10. The construction machine according to claim 6, wherein said heat exchanger unit comprises a support body of a frame structure mounted on said vehicle body, and wherein said radiator, said oil cooler, said intercooler, said condenser and said fuel cooler are accommodated in said support body.

11. The construction machine according to claim 6, wherein said vehicle body comprises an automotive lower traveling structure and an upper revolving structure swingably mounted on said lower traveling structure, and wherein said cab, said engine, said hydraulic pump, said cooling fan and said heat exchanger unit are provided on a revolving frame serving as a support structural body of said upper revolving structure.