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US 9,540,789 B2Granted
Swing control system for construction machines
AssigneeVolvo Construction Equipment AB
InventorMarek Urbanowicz
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Abstract
The disclosed invention relates to a swing control system for construction machines and is useful in a construction equipment in which the shaking or jerking movement of the upper swing structure due to the moment of inertia thereof is controlled by a simple electrical hydraulic control system so that although the swing manipulation is abruptly and repeatedly performed during the excavation or dumping operation, an operator can control the soft swing start/stop of the upper swing structure in the swing operation of construction machine, thereby improving manipulability and work efficiency of the work apparatus.
Claims11
A swing control system for construction machines, comprising:
- a hydraulic pump;
- a swing motor driven by a hydraulic fluid supplied from the hydraulic pump and configured to swing an upper swing structure;
- a swing control valve installed between the hydraulic pump and the swing motor, and configured to control the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid supplied and returned to the swing motor via a pair of hydraulic lines;
- swing manipulation means configured to apply a spool shift signal corresponding to a manipulated variable of an operator to the swing control valve;
- a shuttle valve installed on a relief line branched off from the hydraulic lines, and configured to select a higher pressure of the pressures of the hydraulic lines and drain a hydraulic fluid of the selected hydraulic line having the higher pressure to the relief line;
- a relief valve installed on the relief line at the downstream side of the shuttle valve, and configured to control a required flow rate for a soft swing start to drain the hydraulic fluid through a first cutoff valve to a hydraulic tank, when the first cutoff valve is opened during swing start acceleration;
- a first cutoff valve installed between the shuttle valve and the relief valve, and configured to selectively control the required flow rate for the soft swing start through the shuttle valve during swing start acceleration;
- a second cutoff valve installed on a connection line branched off from the pair of hydraulic lines, and configured to selectively control a required flow rate for a soft swing stop on the connection line during swing stop deceleration;
- a pair of pressure detecting means configured to sense the signal pressure provided to the swing control valve to shift or switch a spool;
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- an electric controller electrically connected to the relief valve, the first cutoff valve, the second cutoff valve, and the pressure sensors, the electric controller being configured to determine whether the upper swing structure is in the soft swing start or stop, based on a potential pressure difference between the pressure detecting means, an inertial transform function and a derivative function operated by a predetermined algorithm, and selectively output valve control signals for controlling the valves during the swing start acceleration and the swing stop deceleration.
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A construction machine having a lower traveling structure, an upper swing structure and a work apparatus attached to the upper swing structure, the upper swing structure mounted on the lower traveling structure to be swiveled, the work apparatus including a bucket, an arm and a boom pivotally connected on the upper swing structure, comprising:
- a hydraulic pump;
- a swing motor driven by a hydraulic fluid supplied from the hydraulic pump and configured to swing an upper swing structure;
- a swing control valve installed between the hydraulic pump and the swing motor, and configured to control the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid supplied and returned to the swing motor via a pair of hydraulic lines;
- swing manipulation means configured to apply a spool shift signal corresponding to a manipulated variable of an operator to the swing control valve;
- a shuttle valve installed on a relief line branched off from the hydraulic lines, and configured to select a higher pressure of the pressures of the hydraulic lines and drain a hydraulic fluid of the selected hydraulic line having the higher pressure to the relief line;
- a relief valve installed on the relief line at the downstream side of the shuttle valve, and configured to control a required flow rate for a soft swing start to drain the hydraulic fluid through a first cutoff valve to a hydraulic tank, when the first cutoff valve is opened during swing start acceleration;
- a first cutoff valve installed between the shuttle valve and the relief valve, and configured to selectively control the required flow rate for the soft swing start through the shuttle valve during swing start acceleration;
- a second cutoff valve installed on a connection line branched off from the pair of hydraulic lines, and configured to selectively control a required flow rate for a soft swing stop on the connection line during swing stop deceleration;
- a pair of pressure detecting means configured to sense the signal pressure provided to the swing control valve to shift or switch a spool;
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- an electric controller electrically connected to the relief valve, the first cutoff valve, the second cutoff valve, and the pressure sensors, the electric controller being configured to determine whether the upper swing structure is in the soft swing start or stop, based on a potential pressure difference between the pressure detecting means, an inertial transform function and a derivative function operated by a predetermined algorithm, and selectively output valve control signals for controlling the valves during the swing start acceleration and the swing stop deceleration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.