Transporter vehicle

• US 8,668,044 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2010
• Issued: 03/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.), Sauer-Danfoss Daikin Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tamura, Katsumi, Meldgaard, Knud Jensen, Horii, Kazumasa
• Primary Examiner(s): Boehler, Anne Marie M
• Application Number:
  US13/203,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20110308882A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,349 Days
• Field of Search: 180/417, 180/441, 180/442, 180/418, 180/428, 913/75, 914/43, 604/94, 604/31, 603/29
• US Class Current: 180/441
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 5/06 fluid, i.e. using a pressurised fluid for most or all the force required for steering a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 13/04 for use with a single servomotor
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 21/04 Special measures taken in connection with the properties of the fluid
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 21/0427 Heating
• CPC Class Codes: F15B 2211/62 Cooling or heating means

Abstract

There is provided a circulation line (39) for circulating pressurized oil from an accumulator (11) into a housing (15) of a steering valve (14). An orifice joint (41) is provided along the path of the circulation line (39). The orifice joint (41) is removably mounted on the housing (15) of the steering valve (14) from outside. An orifice portion (42) of the orifice joint (41) applies a throttling function to the circulating oil liquid whereby a frictional heat is generated therein. The oil liquid in a warm state flows through a communication passage (21), passages in a spool valve (16), and a low pressure side passage (18B), thus enabling the steering valve (14) to be always in a warm state.

Claims

1. A transporter vehicle comprising:

an automotive vehicle body;

a vessel which is tiltably provided on said vehicle body by using a rear side of said vehicle body as a fulcrum and on which objects to be transported are loaded;

an operating room provided in said vehicle body to be positioned in a front side of said vessel;

a steering handle provided in said operating room and steered by a driver;

a steering valve for controlling a direction and a flow amount of pressurized oil supplied to a steering cylinder at the time of being operated and changed from a neutral position by said steering handle;

a circulation line for circulating the pressurized oil in said steering valve when said steering valve is in the neutral position; and

an orifice member provided along said circulation line to be removably mounted to an outer side face of said steering valve for applying a throttling function to the pressurized oil, said orifice member being screwed into a housing of said steering valve to be mounted thereon to an outside of said housing.

2. A transporter vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said orifice member is constituted by an orifice joint including an orifice portion for applying the throttling function to the pressurized oil, and a filter positioned upstream of said orifice portion to purify said pressurized oil.

3. A transporter vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said steering valve includes a high pressure side passage connected to an accumulator for accumulating the pressurized oil through a supply line, and a low pressure side passage connected to a tank through an exhaust line, and

said circulation line includes a branch line which is branched from said supply line and a front end side of which is connected to said orifice member, said orifice member, a communication passage provided in said steering valve to communicate an inside of said orifice member with said low pressure side passage, and said exhaust line connected to said low pressure side passage for circulating the pressurized oil from said accumulator into said steering valve.

4. A transporter vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a flow amount amplifying valve is provided between an accumulator for accumulating the pressurized oil and said steering cylinder, wherein when said steering valve is changed from the neutral position to a changeover position by the operation of said steering handle, said flow amount amplifying valve is changed from the neutral position to the changeover position using the pressurized oil supplied from an output side passage of said steering valve as a pilot pressure, and

said flow amount amplifying valve combines the pressurized oil supplied from said output side passage of said steering valve and the pressurized oil supplied from said accumulator at the time of being changed from the neutral position to the changeover position and supplies the combined pressurized oil with the increased flow amount toward said steering cylinder through a main line.