# US 10,870,560 B2 · Crane

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- Number: US 10,870,560 B2
- Document ID: US10870560B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/090,416
- Filed: 2017-04-07
- Published: 2019-04-25
- Granted: 2020-12-22
- Earliest claimed: 2016-04-08
- Assignees: Tadano Ltd.
- Applicants: Tadano Ltd.
- Inventors: Yasuhiro Fukumori; Naoto Kawabuchi; Naofumi Yoshida
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10870560B2

## CPC

- B66C 15/065: {electrical}
- B66C 15/00: Safety gear (for rope, cable, or chain winding mechanisms B66D1/54)
- B66C 23/90: Devices for indicating or limiting lifting moment
- B66C 23/905: {electrical}
- B66D 1/58: responsive to excess of load
- B66C 23/54: {with pneumatic or hydraulic motors, e.g. for actuating jib-cranes on tractors}
- B66C 2700/0357: Cranes on road or off-road vehicles, on trailers or towed vehicles; Cranes on wheels or crane-trucks
- B66C: CRANES; LOAD-ENGAGING ELEMENTS OR DEVICES FOR CRANES, CAPSTANS, WINCHES, OR TACKLES ({specially adapted for lifting invalids A61G7/10;} rope, cable, or chain winding mechanisms, braking or detent devices therefor B66D; specially adapted for nuclear reactors G21)
- B66D: CAPSTANS; WINCHES; TACKLES, e.g. PULLEY BLOCKS; HOISTS (winding or unwinding ropes or cables for feeding or storage purposes B65H; rope or cable winding or unwinding mechanisms for lifts B66B)

## Abstract

Provided is a crane capable of allowing an operator to recognize an error in work information or in a number of windings set in a safety device. A main tension of a main wire rope is calculated from a main output torque of a main winch, a sub output torque of a sub winch, a main drum winding radius of the main winch, and a sub drum winding radius of the sub winch. An estimated hanging load, which is calculated from the main tension, a sub tension of a sub wire rope and the number of windings of the wire rope set in a safety device, is compared with an actual hanging load calculated from fluctuating thrust force and boom information. Thus, the suitability of a work kind or a winding number set in the safety device is determined.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A crane, comprising:
a plurality of hydraulic winches;
wire ropes that are drawn in and out from the plurality of hydraulic winches and are suspended on a sheave of a boom to be derricked with a hydraulic cylinder or a sheave of a jib provided to a distal end section of the boom;
a safety apparatus that sets a hydraulic winch to be used among the plurality of hydraulic winches and a number of turns of the wire rope drawn in and out from the hydraulic winch to be used; and,
a control apparatus that calculates tensions of the wire ropes from output torques of the plurality of hydraulic winches and winding radiuses of the wire ropes wound around the plurality of hydraulic winches, and that determines a setting in the safety apparatus is erroneous, when the tension of the wire rope wound around a hydraulic winch different from the hydraulic winch to be used set in the safety apparatus is greater than or equal to a reference value.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The crane according to claim 1, wherein
the control apparatus calculates an estimated suspension load from the number of turns of the wire rope drawn in and out from the hydraulic winch to be used set in the safety apparatus and the tension of the wire rope,
the control apparatus calculates an actual suspension load from a thrust of the hydraulic cylinder and a shape and attitude of the boom or shapes and attitudes of the boom and the jib, and
the control apparatus determines that a setting in the safety apparatus is erroneous, when a difference between the estimated suspension load and the actual suspension load is out of a predetermined range.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The crane according to claim 2, wherein
a torque of the hydraulic winch is calculated from a hydraulic pressure in a draw-in side part of the hydraulic winch and a hydraulic pressure in a draw-out side part of the hydraulic winch, and
a thrust of the hydraulic cylinder is calculated from a hydraulic pressure in a head side oil chamber of the hydraulic cylinder and a hydraulic pressure in a rod side oil chamber of the hydraulic cylinder.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The crane according to claim 1, wherein, when determining that a setting in the safety apparatus is erroneous, the control apparatus informs of an error in the setting or a content of the error in the setting.

### Claim 5

A crane, comprising:
a hydraulic winch;
a wire rope that is drawn in and out from the hydraulic winch and is suspended on a sheave of a boom to be derricked with a hydraulic cylinder or a sheave of a jib provided to a distal end section of the boom;
a safety apparatus that sets a number of turns of the wire rope drawn in and out from the hydraulic winch; and,
a control apparatus that calculates a tension of the wire rope from an output torque of the hydraulic winch and a winding radius of the wire rope wound around the hydraulic winch, wherein
the control apparatus calculates an estimated suspension load from the number of turns of the wire rope set in the safety apparatus and the tension of the wire rope,
the control apparatus calculates an actual suspension load from a thrust of the hydraulic cylinder and a shape and attitude of the boom or shapes and attitudes of the boom and the jib, and
the control apparatus determines that a setting in the safety apparatus is erroneous, when a difference between the estimated suspension load and the actual suspension load is out of a predetermined range.