Engine driven working machine

• US 9,726,095 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2015
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oppama Industry Co., Ltd. (Yamabiko Corporation), Yamabiko Corporation
• Original Assignee: Oppama Industry Co., Ltd. (Yamabiko Corporation), Yamibiko Corporation
• Inventors: Iwata, Masao, Enomoto, Kiyoshige, Tsuyuki, Yuichi, Yoshizaki, Takuo, Takano, Toshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): LEWIS, TISHA D
• Application Number:
  US14/881,811
• Publication Number:
  US 20160123256A1
• Time in Patent Office: 665 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 63/02 for hand-held tools
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2400/06 Small engines with electronic control, e.g. for hand held tools
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 31/003 for idle speed control
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 35/0007 using electrical feedback F02D35/0015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0215 in relation with elements of the transmission
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/022 in relation with the clutch status
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/064 at cold start F02D41/067 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 3/02 having pull-cords
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 5/1504 with particular means during a transient phase, e.g. acceleration, deceleration, gear change during starting F02P5/1506
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 5/1508 with particular means during idling

Abstract

An engine-driven working machine including a controller by which a time period until the rotation speed limitation mode is canceled can be shortened. After a throttle valve is moved to a fully-closed position by an operation to allow the engine to finish the fast idling state and while the engine is transited to an idling state, the controller cancels the rotation speed limitation mode by detecting an event in which a cycle period of rotation speed variations of the engine is longer than a cycle period of rotation speed variation in the fast idling state.

Claims

1. An engine-driven working machine comprising:

an engine;

an actuating part driven by the engine;

a centrifugal clutch disposed between the engine and the actuating part; and

a controller detecting a rotation speed of the engine to control the rotation speed,

wherein when the rotation speed of the engine is higher than a predetermined clutch-in rotation speed, the centrifugal clutch connects the engine with the actuating part so as to transmit rotations of the engine to the actuating part,

wherein in a fast idling state in which the engine is operated while a throttle valve of a carburetor of the engine is maintained in a half-opened position, the controller is operated from starting of the engine in a rotation speed limitation mode in which the engine is prevented from rotating at a rotation speed that is higher than the clutch-in rotation speed, and

wherein after the throttle valve is moved to a fully-closed position by an operator'"'"'s operation to allow the engine to finish the fast idling state and while the engine is in a transition state in which after a relatively low rotation speed continues before it is transited to an idling state, the rotation speed is suddenly increased and then suddenly decreased, the controller cancels the rotation speed limitation mode by detecting an event that a cycle period of rotation speed variations of the engine is longer than a cycle period of rotation speed variation in the fast idling state.

2. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein the event that the cycle period of the rotation speed variations of the engine while the engine is transited to the idling state is longer than the cycle period of the rotation speed variations in the fast idling state is determined by an event that a time period between increased peaks in the rotation speed variations of the engine is longer than a predetermined time period.

3. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein the event that the cycle period of the rotation speed variations of the engine while the engine is transited to the idling state is longer than the cycle period of the rotation speed variations in the fast idling state is determined by an event that a time period between bottom peaks in the rotation speed variations of the engine is longer than a predetermined time period.

4. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein the event that the cycle period of the rotation speed variations of the engine while the engine is transited to the idling state is longer than the cycle period of the rotation speed variations in the fast idling state is determined by an event that a number of times of causing a predetermined increase and/or a predetermined decrease in the rotation speed of the engine during a predetermined time period is less than a predetermined number of times.

5. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein the event that the cycle period of the rotation speed variations of the engine while the engine is transited to the idling state is longer than the cycle period of the rotation speed variations in the fast idling state is determined by an event that an increased peak, a bottom peak, a predetermined increase or a predetermined decrease in the rotation speed variations of the engine is not detected during a predetermined time period.

6. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein in the rotation speed limitation mode, the controller prevents the engine from rotating at a rotation speed which is higher than the clutch-in rotation speed by appropriately causing a misfire cycle in the engine.

7. The working machine according to claim 6, wherein the controller performs advance angle control at igniting of an ignition device of the engine.

8. The working machine according to claim 1, wherein the operator'"'"'s operation of moving the throttle valve to the fully-closed position includes an operation of actuating and then returning a throttle lever.