# US 12,000,113 B2 · Work machine

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- Number: US 12,000,113 B2
- Document ID: US12000113B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/763,455
- Filed: 2020-09-02
- Published: 2022-12-08
- Granted: 2024-06-04
- Earliest claimed: 2019-09-30
- Assignees: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Toshiro Ueta; Michio Hirayama; Kazuomi Endo
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12000113B2

## CPC

- E02F 9/26: Indicating devices {(E02F5/145 takes precedence)}
- E02F 9/264: {Sensors and their calibration for indicating the position of the work tool}
- E02F 9/2214: {for reducing the shock generated at the stroke end}
- E02F 9/2271: {Actuators and supports therefor and protection therefor}
- E02F 9/24: Safety devices {, e.g. for preventing overload (E02F9/226 takes precedence)}
- G01G 19/10: having fluid weight-sensitive devices
- E02F 3/32: working downwardly and towards the machine, e.g. with backhoes
- E02F 3/435: {for dipper-arms, backhoes or the like}
- E02F 9/2228: {including an electronic controller}
- E02F 9/2285: {Pilot-operated systems}
- E02F 9/2292: {Systems with two or more pumps}
- E02F: DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING (winning peat E21C49/00)
- G01G: WEIGHING (sorting by weighing B07C5/16)

## Abstract

In a work machine, a load information output part outputs a load calculated by a load calculation part as load information before a piston member shifting toward a stroke end reaches a specific position, and a load storage part stores the load calculated by the load calculation part as a specific load when the piston member shifting toward the stroke end reaches the specific position. The load information output part further outputs the specific load as the load information after the piston member shifting toward the stroke end enters a specific region.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A work machine comprising:
a machine body;
a working device including a plurality of movable parts which are movable relative to the machine body, the movable parts including an attachment for holding an object of a work;
a hydraulic cylinder having a cylinder main body and a piston member which shifts in a stroke direction with respect to the cylinder main body by receiving a supply of a hydraulic fluid into the cylinder main body to drive one of the movable parts;
a pressure detection part which detects a cylinder pressure of the hydraulic cylinder;
a load calculation part which calculates a load of the object held by the attachment by using the cylinder pressure;
a load storage part; and
a load information output part, wherein
the hydraulic cylinder includes a cushion mechanism, and has a stroke range representing a maximum range where the piston member is shiftable in the stroke direction with respect to the cylinder main body, the stroke range including a cushion region constituting an end region having a stroke end which is one end of the stroke range, the cushion mechanism being configured to increase the cylinder pressure and reduce a shift speed of the piston member as the piston member shifting toward the stroke end enters the cushion region,
a specific position is predetermined at a location spaced from the cushion region in a direction away from the stroke end, and a region between the specific position and the stroke end is predetermined as a specific region,
the load information output part outputs the load calculated by the load calculation part as load information of the load of the object before the piston member shifting toward the stroke end reaches the specific position, and
the load storage part stores the load calculated by the load calculation part as a specific load when the piston member shifting toward the stroke end reaches the specific position, and
the load information output part outputs the specific load as the load information after the piston member shifting toward the stroke end enters the specific region.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The work machine according to claim 1, wherein
the specific region has a length which is larger than a length of the cushion region in the stroke direction and is equal to or less than 5% of an entire length of the stroke range.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The work machine according to claim 1, wherein
the load information output part outputs, as the load information, the load calculated by the load calculation part after the piston member enters the specific region, when a predetermined criterion for determination as to whether an increase in the cylinder pressure is suppressed is satisfied in a state where the piston member shifting toward the stroke end enters the specific region.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The work machine according to claim 1, which is configured to perform a holding task of holding the object, a carrying task of carrying the object being held to a position above a destination, and a discharge task of discharging the object at the position above the destination, the work machine further comprising:
an estimative load determination part which determines an estimative load of the object estimated to be discharged at the position above the destination in the discharge task, wherein
the estimative load determination part is configured to determine, based on the load calculated by the load calculation part, the estimative load in a case where a predetermined estimative load determinative criterion is satisfied before the piston member shifting toward the stroke end reaches the specific position, and determine the specific load as the estimative load in a case where the predetermined estimative load determinative criterion is satisfied after the piston member shifting toward the stroke end enters the specific region.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The work machine according to claim 4, wherein
the estimative load determinative criterion includes a criterion that a predetermined reduction manipulation of reducing an amount of the object held by the attachment is executed after the holding task.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The work machine according to claim 4, wherein
the movable parts may include a boom tiltably supported on the machine body, and
the estimative load determinative criterion includes a criterion that a boom rising speed at which the boom rises in a rising direction reduces in the carrying task.