Hybrid working machine and controlling method thereof

• US 8,548,661 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2010
• Issued: 10/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Inventors: Wu, Chunnan
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Khoi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bendidi, Rachid
• Application Number:
  US13/144,195
• Publication Number:
  US 20110276212A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,355 Days
• Field of Search: 701/22, 180/53.8, 180/65.285
• US Class Current: 701/22
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 1/003 to auxiliary motors, e.g. for pumps, compressors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/06 including control of combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/08 including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/30 including control of auxiliary equipment, e.g. air-conditioning compressors or oil pumps
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/00 Control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles hybrid vehicle design, B60K6/00; electric vehicles B60L
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2300/17 Construction vehicles, e.g. graders, excavators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/305 Power absorbed by auxiliaries
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2075 of the hybrid type for vehicles in general B60W20/00
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2235 including an electronic controller
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2246 Control of prime movers, e.g. depending on the hydraulic load of work tools
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors

Abstract

A control unit of a hybrid working machine calculates an actual hydraulic pressure output from the output of an engine (30) and the output of a motor generator (34), and calculates an assumed hydraulic pressure output (Win) as an output of a hydraulic pump (21) using a predetermined algorithm. The control unit corrects a hydraulic pump characteristic parameter used in the predetermined algorithm based on an assumed hydraulic pressure output error being a difference between an assumed hydraulic pressure output and an actual hydraulic pressure output, calculates an assumed hydraulic pressure correction output, and controls the motor generator (34) based on the assumed hydraulic pressure correction output.

Claims

1. A hybrid working machine comprising:

an engine;

a variable displacement hydraulic pump connected to the engine;

a motor generator connected to the engine; and

a control unit controlling the motor generator;

wherein the control unit calculates an actual hydraulic pressure output value of the variable displacement hydraulic pump from an output of the engine and an output of the motor generator, acquires a calculation value of the hydraulic pump based on a pump current supplied to the hydraulic pump and a discharge pressure of the hydraulic pump using an assumed hydraulic pressure output calculating part, corrects a hydraulic pump characteristic parameter used in the assumed hydraulic pressure output calculating part based on an assumed pressure error between the calculation value and the actual hydraulic pressure output value of the hydraulic pump, calculates an assumed hydraulic pressure correction output using the corrected hydraulic pump characteristic parameter, and controls the motor generator based on the assumed hydraulic pressure correction output.

2. The hybrid working machine according to claim 1,

wherein the calculation value of the hydraulic pump is an assumed hydraulic pressure output as an output from the hydraulic pump, the actual hydraulic pressure output value of the hydraulic pump is an actual hydraulic pressure output as an actual output of the hydraulic pump, the control unit calculates the actual hydraulic pressure output value from the output of the engine and the output of the motor generator, calculates the assumed hydraulic pressure output from the pump current supplied to the hydraulic pump and the discharge pressure of the hydraulic pump using the assumed hydraulic pressure output calculating part, and calculates the assumed hydraulic pressure error as a difference between the assumed hydraulic pressure output and the actual hydraulic pressure output.

3. The hybrid working machine according to claim 1,

wherein the hydraulic pump characteristic parameter is a hydraulic pump efficiency map.

4. The hybrid working machine according to claim 1,

wherein the hydraulic pump characteristic parameter is a pressure flow rate characteristic diagram of the hydraulic pump.

5. The hybrid working machine according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit calculates the actual hydraulic pressure output in consideration of a power loss in the hydraulic pump and a power loss in the motor generator.

6. The hybrid working machine according to claim 1,

wherein the hydraulic pump characteristic parameter is a control signal of the hydraulic pump, the control signal is corrected to bring a characteristic of the hydraulic pump closer to a discharge flow rate changing characteristic of the hydraulic pump, the output of the hydraulic pump is calculated based on the corrected control signal, and the output of the motor generator assisting the engine is controlled based on the calculated output of the hydraulic pump.

7. The hybrid working machine according to claim 6,

wherein the control signal is corrected to have a time lag.

8. The hybrid working machine according to claim 6,

wherein control signal indicates the discharge pressure or the control current of the hydraulic pump.

9. The hybrid working machine according to claim 8,

wherein when the output of the hydraulic pump is calculated the discharge flow rate changing characteristic inherent in the hydraulic pump corresponding to a change of a signal indicative of the negative control pressure as the control signal is acquired,

the discharge quantity of the hydraulic pump is calculated based on the acquired discharge flow rate changing characteristic, and

the output of the hydraulic pump is calculated by using a smaller one of the discharge quantity calculated based on the acquired discharge flow rate changing characteristic and the discharge quantity calculated from the negative control pressure as the discharge quantity of the hydraulic pump.

10. The hybrid working machine according to claim 6,

wherein the discharge flow rate changing characteristic inherent in the hydraulic pump caused by a change of the control signal of the hydraulic pump is acquired for respective operation modes of the hybrid working machine.

11. The hybrid working machine according to claim 6,

wherein the discharge flow rate changing characteristic inherent in the hydraulic pump is acquired respectively for an increment and a decrement of the control signal.

12. A control method for a hybrid working machine in which a hydraulic pump having a discharge flow rate changing characteristic inherent in a control signal is driven by an output of an engine, the control method comprising:

correcting the control signal to bring a characteristic of the hydraulic pump closer to the discharge flow rate changing characteristic inherent in the control signal;

calculating the output of the hydraulic pump based on the output of the corrected control signal; and

controlling an output of a motor generator assisting the engine based on the calculated output of the hydraulic pump.

13. The control method according to claim 12,

wherein the correcting corrects the control signal to have a time lag.

14. The control method according to claim 12,

wherein the control signal indicates the discharge pressure or the control current of the hydraulic pump.

15. The control method according to claim 12,

wherein the calculating the output of the hydraulic pump includes:

acquiring the discharge flow rate changing characteristic inherent in the hydraulic pump corresponding to a change of a signal indicative of the negative control pressure as the control signal,

calculating the discharge quantity of the hydraulic pump based on the acquired discharge flow rate changing characteristic, and

calculating the output of the hydraulic pump by using smaller one of the discharge quantity calculated based on the acquired discharge flow rate changing characteristic and the discharge quantity calculated from the negative control pressure as the discharge quantity of the hydraulic pump.

16. The control method according to claim 12,

wherein the discharge flow rate changing characteristic inherent in the hydraulic pump caused by a change of the control signal of the hydraulic pump is acquired for respective operation modes of the hybrid working machine.

17. The control method according to claim 12,

wherein the discharge flow rate changing characteristic inherent in the hydraulic pump is acquired respectively for an increment and a decrement of the control signal.