# US 12,215,481 B2 · Construction equipment

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- Number: US 12,215,481 B2
- Document ID: US12215481B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/601,141
- Filed: 2019-04-05
- Published: 2022-06-02
- Granted: 2025-02-04
- Earliest claimed: 2019-04-05
- Assignees: Volvo Construction Equipment AB
- Applicants: Volvo Construction Equipment AB
- Inventors: Dongsoo Kim; Miok Kim
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12215481B2

## CPC

- E02F 9/2033: {Limiting the movement of frames or implements, e.g. to avoid collision between implements and the cabin (sub-groups of E02F3/431 of E02F3/435 take precedence; for turntables E02F9/123)}
- E02F 9/2203: {Arrangements for controlling the attitude of actuators, e.g. speed, floating function}
- E02F 9/2214: {for reducing the shock generated at the stroke end}
- E02F 9/262: {with follow-up actions to control the work tool, e.g. controller}
- E02F: DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING (winning peat E21C49/00)

## Abstract

Provided is construction equipment including: an undercarriage; an upper swing body rotatably supported on the undercarriage; a work device supported by the upper swing body and comprising a boom, an arm and a bucket, which operate by means of respective hydraulic cylinders; a control valve for controlling the boom cylinder; an electronic proportional pressure reducing valve for controlling a spool of the control valve; a control lever for outputting a control signal corresponding to the amount of control of a driver; a work setting unit for providing a work mode and target work surface setting function; a location information providing unit for, according to a work mode setting of the work setting unit, collecting and/or calculating location information of the work device and location information of a work surface that has been set; and an electronic control unit.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A construction equipment comprising:
an undercarriage;
an upper swing body rotatably supported on the undercarriage;
a work device supported by the upper swing body and comprising a boom, an arm, and a bucket, which operate by means of respective hydraulic cylinders;
a control valve for controlling the boom cylinder;
an electronic proportional pressure reducing valve for controlling a spool of the control valve;
a control lever for outputting a control signal corresponding to the amount of control of a driver;
a work setting unit for providing a work mode and a target work surface setting function;
a location information providing unit for, according to a work setting of the work setting unit, collecting and/or calculating location information of the work device and location information of a work surface that has been set; and
an electronic control unit for calculating and outputting boom pilot pressure for the electronic proportional pressure reducing valve,
wherein the electronic control unit controls the operation of the boom by using the control signal of the control lever and the location information collected and/or calculated by the location information providing unit,
wherein the electronic control unit sets the location of the bucket end as a first point, the joint location of the boom and the arm as a second point, and an angle between a virtual straight line connecting the first point and the second point and the work surface as a boom control angle value,
wherein the electronic control unit calculates the boom control angle value, and compares the calculated boom control angle value with the set reference value,
wherein the electronic control unit determines the boom control angle value to be in boom-up control range and allows only boom-up movement in case the boom control angle value is smaller than the set reference value, and determines the boom control angle value to be in boom-down control range and allows only boom-down movement in case the boom control angle value is larger than the set reference value.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The construction equipment of claim 1, wherein the reference value is 90°.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The construction equipment of claim 1, wherein the electronic control unit calculates the boom control angle value to be a sum of the boom angle value, which is a tangent angle between the first point and the second point, and the slope angle of the work surface.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The construction equipment of claim 1, wherein the location information providing unit comprises at least one of a location measuring unit for measuring the location information of the construction equipment, a posture measuring unit for measuring the posture information of the construction equipment and the location of the respective work device, and a coordinate calculating unit for calculating the coordinate on the basis of the location information measured from the location measuring unit and the posture measuring unit.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The construction equipment of claim 1, wherein the electronic proportional pressure reducing value generates hydraulic pressure in correspondence to the electric signal of the electronic control unit, and operates the spool in the control valve by delivering the hydraulic pressure generated to the control valve.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The construction equipment of claim 1, wherein the control lever generates an electric signal in proportion to the amount of control of a driver and provides the same to the electronic control unit as an electric joystick.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The construction equipment of claim 1, wherein the work setting unit provides a plurality of work mode setting functions that can be set according to the driver's need, and displays, on a display screen, at least one of the geographic information, location information and posture information of the construction equipment provided from the location information providing unit according to the work mode setting.