Work machine including a controller controlling operation of different component of work machine

• US 9,619,146 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2013
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
• Inventors: Fujimori, Toshiyuki, Sugimura, Shunsuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Do, Truc M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Whittington, Jess
• Application Number:
  US14/233,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20150293702A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,359 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/267 Diagnosing or detecting failure of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0604 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0644 Management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0673 Single storage device
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers

Abstract

A work machine includes a controller having a first storage unit that can store work machine information and rewrite the stored work machine information, and a processing unit that collects the work machine information, and stores at least one kind of the work machine information in the first storage unit when trigger information for causing the first storage unit to start storing the work machine information occurs. The controller can change from an outside at least one of the number of data prior to a trigger of the work machine information collected by the processing unit before the trigger information, the number of data subsequent to the trigger of the work machine information collected by the processing unit after the trigger information, and a time interval during which the work machine information is collected.

Claims

1. A work machine comprising:

one or more controllers, each controller configured to control an operation of a different component of the working machine, each controller including;

a first memory to store work machine information as information on the work machine and store first definition information;

a second memory to store second definition information; and

a processor configured to collect the work machine information and to cause at least one category of the work machine information to be stored in the first memory when a trigger for causing the first memory to start storing the work machine information occurs, wherein

the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger, and a time interval, which are to be stored, are described in each of the first definition information and the second definition information,

each of the first definition information and the second definition information includes at least one of the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger of the work machine information collected by the processor before the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger of the work machine information collected by the processor after the trigger, and the time interval during which the work machine information is collected,

the second definition information stores default contents of the first definition information,

the first definition information has been changed from the second definition information based on an instruction from outside of the controller, and

the processor is configured to collect the work machine information in accordance with the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger, and the time interval, which are described in the first definition information that is stored in the first memory and has been changed from the second definition information based on the instruction from outside of the controller.

2. The work machine according to claim 1, wherein the category of the work machine information is changeable.

3. The work machine according to claim 2, wherein

the first memory stores the first definition information where the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger, the time interval, and the category of the work machine information, which are to be stored, are described, and

the processor saves the collected work machine information in the first memory in accordance with the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger, the time interval, and the category of the work machine information, which are described in the first definition information.

4. The work machine according to claim 1, wherein the first definition information is rewritten from the outside of the controller to change at least one of the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger, and the time interval.

5. The work machine according to claim 3, wherein the first definition information is rewritten from the outside of the controller to change at least one of the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger, the time interval, and the category of the work machine information.

6. The work machine according to claim 1, wherein the work machine comprises a plurality of the controllers, each of the controllers being able to change the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger, and the time interval individually.

7. The work machine according to claim 2, wherein the work machine comprises a plurality of the controllers, each of the controllers being able to change the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger, the time interval, and the category of the work machine information individually.

8. The work machine according to claim 1, further comprising a communication unit configured to communicate with the outside of the controller, wherein the first definition information is rewritable by wireless communication via the communication unit from the outside of the controller.

13. The work machine according to claim 4, wherein after the first definition information stored in the first memory is rewritten, when a key switch of the work machine is turned on, the rewritten first definition information becomes effective.

9. A work machine comprising:

one or more controllers, each controller configured to control an operation of a different component of the working machine, each controller including;

a first memory configured to store work machine information as information on the work machine and store first definition information;

a second memory to store second definition information; and

a processor configured to collect the work machine information, and causing at least one category of the work machine information to be stored in the first memory based on a trigger for causing the first memory to start saving the work machine information, wherein

the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger, and a time interval, which are to be stored, are described in each of the first definition information and the second definition information,

the processor is configured to cause the work machine information collected in accordance with the first definition information where at least one of the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger of the work machine information collected by the processor before the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger of the work machine information collected by the processor after the trigger, and a time interval during which the work machine information is collected is described and stored in the first memory,

the second definition information stores default contents of the first definition information,

the first definition information has been changed from the second definition information based on an instruction from outside of the controller, and

the first memory is different from a memory where an instruction to cause the processor to execute an operation to save the work machine information in the first memory is saved.

10. The work machine according to claim 9, wherein the category of the work machine is changeable.

11. The work machine according to claim 10, wherein a plurality of categories of the first definition information is stored in the first memory.

12. The work machine according to claim 11, wherein the plurality of categories of the first definition information is individually changeable from the outside of the controller.

14. A work machine comprising:

a plurality of controllers, each controller configured to control an operation of a different component of the work machine, each controller including;

a first memory to store work machine information associated with a respective component to be controlled and store first definition information;

a second memory to store second definition information; and

a processor configured to collect the work machine information and to cause at least one category of the work machine information to be stored in the first memory when a trigger for causing the first memory to start storing the work machine information occurs, wherein

the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger, and a time interval, which are to be stored, are described in each of the first definition information and the second definition information,

each of the first definition information and the second definition information includes at least one of the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger of the work machine information collected by the processor before the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger of the work machine information collected by the processor after the trigger, and the time interval during which the work machine information is collected,

the second definition information stores default contents of the first definition information,

the first definition information has been changed from the second definition information based on an instruction from outside of the controller, and

the processor is configured to collect the work machine information in accordance with the number of pieces of data prior to the trigger, the number of pieces of data subsequent to the trigger, and the time interval, which are described in the first definition information that is stored in the first memory and has been changed from the second definition information based on the instruction from outside of the controller.

15. The work machine according to claim 14, wherein the plurality of controllers includes an engine controller and a pump controller.