Hydraulic circuit for heavy construction equipment
AssigneeVolvo Construction Equipment Holding Sweden AB
InventorsToshimichi Ikeda, Yang Koo Lee
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Abstract
A hydraulic circuit for heavy construction equipment to reduce a speed of a swing apparatus while a working apparatus such as a boom is concurrently operated has a work control valve which controls a working apparatus cylinder; a confluence valve which combines a hydraulic fluid of the second hydraulic pump with the work unit flow path based on a positions switch; a swing control valve which controls the hydraulic swing motor; and a disconnection valve which disconnects the hydraulic fluid supplied to at least one of the swing motors.
Claims5
A hydraulic circuit for a heavy construction equipment, comprising:
- a work control valve which controls a working apparatus cylinder by supplying or retrieving a hydraulic fluid of a first hydraulic pump through a work unit flow path;
- a confluence valve which is installed at a parallel flow path connected with a second hydraulic pump and combines a hydraulic fluid of the second hydraulic pump with the work unit flow path based on a positions switch;
- a swing control valve which is installed at the parallel flow path and controls a swing apparatus by supplying or retrieving a hydraulic fluid of the second hydraulic pump to a plurality of hydraulic swing motors which drive the swing apparatus;
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- a disconnection valve which is installed at a swing flow path connecting the swing control valve and at least one of the swing motors and is position-switched when the confluence valve is position-switched for thereby disconnecting the hydraulic fluid supplied to at least one of the swing motors and at the same time communicating an inlet and an outlet of the disconnected swing motor.
A hydraulic circuit for a heavy construction equipment, comprising:
- a first valve group which includes a work control valve for driving a working apparatus cylinder;
- a second valve group which is connected with a plurality of hydraulic swing motors through a swing flow path, with the hydraulic swing motors being adapted so as to drive a swing apparatus, and includes a swing control valve for controlling a hydraulic fluid supplied to the swing motors;
- a confluence valve which is installed between the second valve group and the first valve group and combines part of the hydraulic fluid of the second valve group with the work apparatus cylinder when the position is switched by a pilot signal;
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- a disconnection valve which is installed at the swing flow path and disconnects the hydraulic fluid supplied to part of the swing motors as the position is switched by the pilot signal inputted into the confluence valve and connects an inlet and an outlet of the disconnected swing motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.