Hybrid shovel and hybrid shovel control method

• US 9,995,318 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2015
• Issued: 06/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo (S.H.I.) Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo (S.H.I.) Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (Sumitomo Heavy Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Magaki, Hideto, Sano, Kiminori, Shiratani, Ryuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Lopez, F. Daniel
• Application Number:
  US14/700,559
• Publication Number:
  US 20150233394A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,139 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/485 Motor-assist type
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/54 Transmission for changing ratio
• 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 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 2510/0638 Engine speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/083 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/1884 Avoiding stall or overspeed of the engine
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 3/32 working downwardly and towards the machine, e.g. with backhoes
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2075 of the hybrid type for vehicles in general B60W20/00
• CPC Class Codes: E02F 9/2221 Control of flow rate; Load sensing arrangements E02F9/2203 take precedence over E02F9/2221
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 11/05 specially adapted to maintain constant speed, e.g. pressure-compensated, load-responsive F15B11/161 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 11/161 with sensing of servomotor demand or load
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 15/14 of the straight-cylinder type
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/20515 Electric motor
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/20523 Internal combustion engine
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/2053 Type of pump
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/26 Power control functions
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles

Abstract

A hybrid shovel includes an engine that is controlled at a constant revolution speed, a motor generator that assists the engine, a control part that controls a drive of the motor generator, and a hydraulic pump that is driven by the engine. The control part causes the motor generator to assist the engine when a revolution speed of the engine is lower than the constant revolution speed due to a load of the hydraulic pump. The control part causes the motor generator to decrease an assist output to said engine before the revolution speed of the engine returns to the constant revolution speed.

Claims

1. A hybrid shovel, comprising:

an engine that is controlled at a constant revolution speed;

a motor generator that assists the engine;

a control part that controls a drive of said motor generator; and

a hydraulic pump that is driven by said engine,

wherein said control part causes said motor generator to assist said engine when a revolution speed of said engine is lower than said constant revolution speed due to a load of said hydraulic pump, and said control part causes said motor generator to decrease and stop an assist output to said engine before the revolution speed of said engine returns to said constant revolution speed.

2. The hybrid shovel as claimed in claim 1, wherein said control part sets, during the assist of said engine by said motor generator, a target revolution speed of said motor generator to a value lower than a revolution speed corresponding to said constant revolution speed.

3. The hybrid shovel as claimed in claim 1, wherein said control part starts the assist of said engine by said motor generator when a detected value of the revolution speed of said engine becomes lower than or equal to a revolution speed corresponding to a target revolution speed of said motor generator, and said control part causes said motor generator to stop the assist output to said engine when the detected value of the revolution speed of said engine becomes higher than the revolution speed corresponding to the target revolution speed of said motor generator and reaches a predetermined revolution speed that is lower than the revolution speed corresponding to said constant revolution speed.

4. The hybrid shovel as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when the revolution speed of said engine becomes lower than said constant revolution speed and reaches a predetermined revolution speed, which is lower than said constant revolution speed, said control part performs the assist of said engine by said motor generator to maintain the revolution speed of said engine at the predetermined revolution speed.

5. The hybrid shovel as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when said motor generator is assisting said engine and when a detection value of the revolution speed of said engine is higher than a revolution speed corresponding to a target revolution speed of said motor generator, said control part prohibits said motor generator from performing a generating operation.

6. The hybrid shovel as claimed in claim 1, wherein said control part controls an output of said engine to increase while controlling the revolution speed of said motor generator based on a target revolution speed.

7. The hybrid shovel as claimed in claim 1, wherein said control part sets, during the assist of said engine by said motor generator, a target revolution speed of said motor generator such that there is a difference between the target revolution speed and said constant revolution speed.

8. A hybrid shovel, comprising:

an engine that is controlled at a constant revolution speed;

a motor generator that assists the engine;

a control part that controls a drive of said motor generator; and

a hydraulic pump that is driven by said engine,

wherein said control part causes said motor generator to assist said engine when a revolution speed of said engine is lower than said constant revolution speed due to a load of said hydraulic pump, and said control part causes said motor generator to decrease an assist output to said engine before the revolution speed of said engine returns to said constant revolution speed,

wherein said control part sets a target revolution speed of said motor generator to a value lower than a revolution speed corresponding to said constant revolution speed, and said control part maintains the revolution speed of said motor generator at said target revolution speed when the revolution speed of said motor generator reaches said target revolution speed during the assist of said engine by said motor generator.