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US 5,732,835 AGranted
Crane control device
AssigneeKomatsu Ltd.
InventorsTadashi Morita, Seiichi Mizui
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Abstract
An object of this invention is to improve safety in a crane. A boom control signal .alpha.r and a winch control signal .beta.r are simultaneously outputted to, respectively, a boom drive portion and a winch drive portion of a driving portion 30 for obtaining, respectively, target values Xr, Yr, with current working radius X and lift Y that vary according to the flexure of boom 4 as feedback amounts, thereby a boom hoisting angle and a rope length being controlled simultaneously.
Claims4
Crane control device comprising:
- boom drive means for changing a boom hoisting angle in response to an input drive instruction;
- winch drive means for changing a rope length of the wind-up rope from a tip of the boom to a hook in response to the input drive instruction;
- boom hoisting angle detection means for detecting the boom hoisting angle;
- rope length detection means for detecting the rope length;
- boom load detection means for detecting a load acting on the boom;
- setting means for setting beforehand, taking the boom hoisting angle, boom load and boom length as parameters, a first correspondence relationship of these parameters and the working radius, and a second correspondence relationship of the parameters and the boom tip vertical position;
- first calculating means for calculating a current working radius based on the detected values of the boom hoisting angle detection means and the boom load detection means, the value of the boom length and the first correspondence relationship that is set in the setting means, and for calculating a current lift based on a current boom tip vertical position and the detected value of the rope length detection means, the current boom tip vertical position being obtained based on the detected values of the boom hoisting angle detection means and the boom load detection means, the value of the boom length and the second correspondence relationship set in the setting means;
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- control means for outputting drive instructions respectively to the boom drive means and winch drive means such as to perform a prescribed operation wherein the lift, indicating the vertical distance from the ground to the hook is varied while maintaining the working radius, indicating the horizontal distance from the rotation center of the crane to the boom tip at a fixed value, while inputting as feedback quantities the current working radius and the current lift calculated by the first calculating means.
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Crane control device comprising:
- boom drive means for changing the boom hoisting angle in response to an input drive instruction;
- winch drive means for changing the rope length of the wind-up rope from the boom tip to the hook in response to an input drive instruction;
- boom hoisting angle detection means for detecting the boom hoisting angle;
- rope length detection means for detecting the rope length;
- boom load detection means for detecting a load acting on the boom;
- setting means for setting beforehand, taking the boom hoisting angle, boom load and boom length as parameters, a first correspondence relationship of these parameters and the working radius, and a second correspondence relationship of the parameters and the boom tip vertical position;
- first calculating means for calculating a current working radius based on the detected values of the boom hoisting angle detection means and the boom load detection means, the value of the boom length and the first correspondence relationship that is set in the setting means, and for calculating a current lift based on a current boom tip vertical position and the detected value of the rope length detection means, the current boom tip vertical position being obtained based on the detected values of the boom hoisting angle detection means and the boom load detection means, the value of the boom length and the second correspondence relationship set in the setting means;
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- control means for outputting drive instructions respectively to the boom drive means and winch drive means such as to perform a prescribed operation by varying the working radius indicating the horizontal distance from the rotation center of the crane to the boom tip while maintaining the lift indicating the vertical distance from the ground to the hook at a fixed value, while inputting as feedback quantities the current working radius and the current lift calculated by the first calculating means.
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