Construction machine and method of controlling turning electric motor
AssigneeSumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorMakoto Yanagisawa
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Abstract
A construction machine includes a turning electric motor configured to drive a turning mechanism configured to cause an upper-part turning body to turn relative to a lower-part traveling body and a control unit configured to control driving of the turning electric motor. The control unit is configured to cause the output of the turning electric motor to continue after the turning speed of the upper-part turning body becomes zero, based on the magnitude of the output or the direction of the output of the turning electric motor at the time when the upper-part turning body is decelerated and its turning speed becomes zero.
Claims14
A construction machine, comprising:
- a lower-part traveling body;
- an upper-part turning body mounted on the lower-part traveling body through a turning mechanism configured to turn the upper-part turning body horizontally relative to the lower-part traveling body;
- a turning electric motor configured to drive the turning mechanism;
- and
- a control unit configured to control driving of the turning electric motor,
- wherein the control unit includes
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing a program that, when executed by the processor, causes the control unit to cause an output torque of the turning electric motor to selectively continue after a turning speed of the upper-part turning body becomes zero, based on a direction in which the upper-part turning body has turned, and a magnitude of the output torque or a direction of the output torque of the turning electric motor, when the turning speed of the upper-part turning body becomes zero because of deceleration of the upper-part turning body,
- wherein the control unit causes the output torque of the turning electric motor to be zero or reduced when an absolute value of the output torque of the turning electric motor, when the turning speed of the upper-part turning body becomes zero, is less than a predetermined value, in a case where a turn of the upper-part turning body is stopped with the construction machine being placed on level ground or in a case where an upward turn of the upper-part turning body is quickly stopped with the construction machine being placed on a slope.
A method of controlling a turning electric motor of a construction machine, the construction machine including a lower-part traveling body, an upper-part turning body mounted on the lower-part traveling body through a turning mechanism configured to turn the upper-part turning body horizontally relative to the lower-part traveling body, the turning electric motor configured to drive the turning mechanism, and a control unit to control driving of the turning electric motor, the method comprising:
- causing the upper-part turning body to turn relative to the lower-part traveling body by driving the turning electric motor to rotate in a first direction;
- decelerating the upper-part turning body by driving the turning electric motor to rotate in a second direction reverse to the first direction;
- and
- causing, by the control unit, an output torque of the turning electric motor to selectively continue after a turning speed of the upper-part turning body becomes zero, based on a direction in which the upper-part turning body has turned, and a magnitude of the output torque or a direction of the output torque of the turning electric motor, when the turning speed of the upper-part turning body, becomes zero because of deceleration of the upper-part turning body,
- wherein the output torque of the turning electric motor is caused to be zero or reduced when an absolute value of the output torque of the turning electric motor, when the turning speed of the upper-part turning body becomes zero, is less than a predetermined value, in a case where a turn of the upper-part turning body is stopped with the construction machine being placed on level ground or in a case where an upward turn of the upper-part turning body is quickly stopped with the construction machine being placed on a slope.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.