Hybrid working machine and servo control system

• US 9,008,875 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2010
• Issued: 04/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited
• Inventors: Yanagisawa, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Kiswanto, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US13/145,645
• Publication Number:
  US 20110288711A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,903 Days
• Field of Search: 701/22, 701/50
• US Class Current: 701/22
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/15 with additional electric power supply with capacitors charged by engine-driven generators B60L50/40; with batteries charged by engine-driven generators B60L50/61
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/26 for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• 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 20/10 Controlling the power contribution of each of the prime movers to meet required power demand
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2300/17 Construction vehicles, e.g. graders, excavators
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 13/18 Control systems or devices exclusively for rope, cable, or chain winding mechanisms B66D1/40
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/123 Drives or control devices specially adapted therefor E02F9/125 and E02F9/128 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2025 Particular purposes of control systems not otherwise provided for E02F3/16, E02F3/26, sub-groups of E02F3/43, E02F3/651, sub-groups of E02F3/84, E02F3/907, E02F5/145 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2058 Electric or electro-mechanical or mechanical control devices of vehicle sub-units for vehicles in general B60W
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2075 of the hybrid type for vehicles in general B60W20/00
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2091 Control of energy storage means for electrical energy, e.g. battery or capacitors energy recovery arrangements in hydraulic or pneumatic drives E02F9/2217
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2217 with energy recovery arrangements, e.g. using accumulators, flywheels
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2246 Control of prime movers, e.g. depending on the hydraulic load of work tools
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility

Abstract

A hybrid working machine has an electric power accumulator charged by a generator driven by an engine and has an electrical load driven with electric power from the electric power accumulator. The hybrid working machine includes a direct-current bus electrically connected to the electric power accumulator, a voltage detector configured to detect the voltage of the direct-current bus, and a drive control part configured to control the driving of the generator based on the detected voltage value of the voltage detector. The drive control part is configured to control the generator based on the deviation between the detected voltage value and a voltage command value.

Claims

1. A hybrid working machine having an electrical load driven with electric power from an electric power accumulator, comprising:

an engine;

a generator connected to the engine and driven by the engine to generate electric power to be stored in the electric power accumulator,

a hydraulic pump connected to the engine and driven to rotate by the engine;

a direct-current bus electrically connected to the electric power accumulator;

a voltage detector configured to detect a voltage of the direct-current bus;

a current detector configured to detect a current from the generator and a current flowing through the generator;

a converter provided between the electric power accumulator and the direct-current bus and configured to control a charge and a discharge of the electric power accumulator; and

a drive control part configured to control driving of the generator,

wherein the drive control part is configured to switch a mode of controlling the driving of the generator from a first mode that controls the driving of the generator by controlling a torque of the generator based on a value of the current detected by the current detector to a second mode that controls the driving of the generator based on a value of the voltage detected by the voltage detector, when an abnormality signal is generated in response to detection of an abnormality of the converter, and

wherein the drive control part is configured to reduce an output of the hydraulic pump in the second mode.

2. The hybrid working machine as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the generator is a motor generator configured to operate as an assist motor with the electric power from the electric power accumulator so as to assist the engine, and

wherein a torque command value for the assist motor is determined so that the assist motor generates a desired assist power in the first mode.

3. The hybrid working machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the drive control part is configured to output a plurality of control gains including a voltage control gain for driving the generator in the second mode and a current control gain for driving the generator in the first mode.

5. The hybrid working machine as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the voltage of the direct-current bus is controlled through the converter in the first mode, and

wherein the voltage of the direct-current bus is prevented from being controlled through the converter in the second mode, and the voltage of the direct-current bus is controlled through an inverter connected between the generator and an electric power accumulation system including the electric power accumulator and the converter in the second mode.

6. The hybrid working machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the second mode, the hydraulic pump is driven by the engine alone so as to drive a hydraulic load connected to the hydraulic pump, and the electrical load is driven with the electric power generated by the generator without being supplied with the electric power from the electric power accumulator.

4. A servo control system having an electric power accumulator charged with electric power generated by a generator connected to and driven by an engine, and driving an electrical load with electric power from the electric power accumulator, comprising:

a direct-current bus electrically connected to the electric power accumulator;

a voltage detector configured to detect a voltage of the direct-current bus;

a current detector configured to detect a current from the generator and a current flowing through the generator;

a converter provided between the electric power accumulator and the direct-current bus and configured to control a charge and a discharge of the electric power accumulator; and

a drive control part configured to control driving of the generator,

wherein the drive control part is configured to switch a mode of controlling the driving of the generator from a first mode that controls the driving of the generator by controlling a torque of the generator based on a value of the current detected by the current detector to a second mode that controls the driving of the generator based on a value of the voltage detected by the voltage detector, when an abnormality signal is generated in response to detection of an abnormality of the converter, and

wherein the drive control part is configured to reduce an output of a hydraulic pump connected to the engine and driven to rotate by the engine in the second mode.