Construction machine

• US 9,621,079 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2015
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Takashi, Sakurai, Kohei, Morita, Yuichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Kawing
• Application Number:
  US14/879,243
• Publication Number:
  US 20160036358A1
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 318721, 318720, 318703, 318700, 318490, 318461, 318445
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/40 Working vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/128 Braking systems
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/267 Diagnosing or detecting failure of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/44 for measuring angular speed G01P3/56 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 29/0241 the fault being an overvoltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 3/04 Means for stopping or slowing by a separate brake, e.g. friction brake, eddy-current brake brakes F16D, H02K49/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 3/18 for stopping or slowing an ac motor
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/06 Arrangements for speed regulation of a single motor wherein the motor speed is measured and compared with a given physical value so as to adjust the motor speed
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/12 Monitoring commutation; Providing indication of commutation failure
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility

Abstract

A construction machine includes: a swing structure; an electric motor that drives the swing structure; an operating device that outputs an operating signal according to an operating amount and an operating direction; an inverter device that controls the electric motor based on a control signal generated based on the operating signal; a position sensor that detects an actual speed of the electric motor; and a second controller that determines whether at least one of a first condition and a second condition is satisfied. The first condition is satisfied when a sign of a value computed by subtracting the actual speed from a target speed of the electric motor that defined by the control signal; and the second condition is satisfied when a difference between the target speed and the actual speed is greater than a first reference value, and when the acceleration is greater than a second reference value.

Claims

1. A construction machine comprising:

a swing structure;

an electric motor that swingably drives the swing structure;

an operating device that outputs operating signals for instructing the swing structure to swing in a clockwise direction or a counterclockwise direction and stop according to an operating amount and an operating direction; and

a control device configured to calculate a target speed of the electric motor from an actual speed of the electric motor and the operating signal output from the operating device, and to control the electric motor based on a control signal generated based on the target speed, wherein

the control device determines whether a sign of a value computed by subtracting the actual speed from a target speed of the electric motor, a target speed defined by the control signal, is different from a sign of acceleration of the electric motor, and determines a fault occurred in an electronic control system relating to the electric motor based on the determination result regarding the signs;

a braking device that brakes the electric motor based on a braking signal, wherein the control device outputs the braking signal to the braking device when the sign of a value computed by subtracting the actual speed from the target speed of the electric motor is different from the sign of acceleration of the electric motor.

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

an annunciating device that annunciates occurrence of a fault in the construction machine based on an annunciation signal, wherein the control device outputs the annunciation signal to the annunciating device when the sign of a value computed by subtracting the actual speed from the target speed of the electric motor is different from the sign of acceleration of the electric motor.

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

acceleration detecting means that detects acceleration of the electric motor.

4. The construction machine according to claim 1, wherein the acceleration of the electric motor is calculated based on target torque of the electric motor defined by the control signal or actual torque generated by the electric motor.

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

another control device configure to determine whether the sign of a value computed by subtracting the actual speed from the target speed of the electric motor is different from the sign of acceleration of the electric motor, and to determine a fault occurred in the electronic control system relating to the electric motor based on the determination result regarding the signs.