# US 7,610,755 B2 · Hydraulic control apparatus of working machine

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- Number: US 7,610,755 B2
- Document ID: US7610755B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 11/680,966
- Filed: 2007-03-01
- Published: 2007-09-06
- Granted: 2009-11-03
- Earliest claimed: 2006-03-02
- Assignees: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Etsujiro Imanishi; Naoki Sugano; Takao Nanjo; Hidekazu Oka
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7610755B2

## CPC

- F04B 49/08: Regulating by delivery pressure
- F04B 49/03: by means of valves
- F04B 49/065: {and making use of computers}
- F04B 49/20: by changing the driving speed
- F04B 2205/09: Flow through the pump
- F04B: POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS (machines for liquids, or pumps, of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type F04C; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D; pumping of fluid by direct contact of another fluid or by using inertia of fluid to be pumped F04F)

## Abstract

With respect to a method of controlling a pump flow rate of a hydraulic pump, a method having a small flow rate command value is selected between a pressure feedback control for controlling the pump flow rate based on a set pressure (a cutoff pressure) and a pump pressure, and, an ordinary control for controlling the pump flow rate based on operation information, and in a case that the pressure feedback control is selected, a flow rate increasing control for increasing the flow rate command value after the case with the passage of time is performed.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A hydraulic control apparatus of a working machine having a hydraulic circuit, the circuit comprising:
a hydraulic pump;
a hydraulic actuator driven by the hydraulic pump as a driving source;
a control valve for controlling supply and discharge of oil with respect to the hydraulic actuator;
a relief valve for setting a maximum pressure of the hydraulic circuit; and
a controller having:
selecting means for selecting, as a flow rate command value, a smaller one of a pressure feedback control for controlling the pump flow rate based on a set pressure as a cutoff pressure and a pump pressure, and an ordinary control for controlling the pump flow rate based on operation information, and
flow rate command value increasing means operative in a case that the pressure feedback control is selected by the selecting means, for increasing the flow rate command value with the passage of time, as compared to a flow rate command value under the pressure feedback control without the flow rate command value increasing means.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The hydraulic control apparatus of working machine according to claim 1, wherein the flow rate command value increasing means increases the flow rate command value with a positive slope by reducing a control gain with the passage of time.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The hydraulic control apparatus of working machine according to claim 1, wherein the flow rate command value increasing means increases the flow rate command value with a positive slope by increasing the set pressure with the passage of time.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The hydraulic control apparatus of a working machine according to claim 1, wherein the control means, after the pressure feedback control is selected, in the case that the flow rate command value of the ordinary control is subsequently selected as the smaller value, is adapted to reset the flow rate increasing control.

### Claim 5

A hydraulic control apparatus of working machine, the circuit comprising:
a hydraulic pump;
a hydraulic actuator driven by the hydraulic pump as a driving source;
a control valve for controlling supply and discharge of oil with respect to the hydraulic actuator;
a relief valve for setting a maximum pressure of the hydraulic circuit; and
a controller having:
selecting means for selecting, as a flow rate command value, a smaller one of a pressure feedback control for controlling the pump flow rate based on a set pressure as a cutoff pressure and a pump pressure, and an ordinary control for controlling the pump flow rate based on operation information,
flow rate command value increasing means operative in a case that the pressure feedback control is selected by the selecting means, for increasing the flow rate command value with the passage of time, as compared to a flow rate command value under the pressure feedback control without the flow rate command value increasing means, and
means for selecting an on or off state of the flow rate command value increasing means.

### Claim 6

A hydraulic control apparatus of working machine, the circuit comprising:
a hydraulic pump;
a hydraulic actuator driven by the hydraulic pump as a driving source;
a control valve for controlling supply and discharge of oil with respect to the hydraulic actuator;
a relief valve for setting a maximum pressure of the hydraulic circuit; and
a controller having:
selecting means for selecting, as a flow rate command value, a smaller one of a pressure feedback control for controlling the pump flow rate based on a set pressure as a cutoff pressure and a pump pressure, and an ordinary control for controlling the pump flow rate based on operation information,
flow rate command value increasing means operative in a case that the pressure feedback control is selected by the selecting means, for increasing the flow rate command value with the passage of time, as compared to a flow rate command value under the pressure feedback control without the flow rate command value increasing means, and
mode switching means for switching between a first energy-saving mode wherein said selecting means and said flow rate command value increasing means are operative, a second energy-saving mode wherein said selecting means is operative and said flow rate command value increasing means is not operative, and a high-power mode wherein said selecting means is not operative and said flow rate command value is set according to ordinary control based on operation information.