Abstract:
A hydraulic drive device which has a closed center type direction switching valve (2) which is connected to a hydraulic pump (50) through a pressure oil feed passage (3) to control flow of a pressure oil fed to an actuator (51). The hydraulic drive device comprises a throttle shutoff means (11) provided on an unload circuit (10), which connects the pressure oil feed passage (3) to a tank (53), for throttling and shutting off the unload circuit (10) in accordance with a control input of the direction switching valve (2), the throttle shutoff means comprising a logic valve (12) having a feedback slit (12b), of which opening area is increased or decreased in accordance with an amount of movement of a valve disc (12a), and a pilot variable throttle (13) for controlling an amount of pilot flow passing through the feedback slit (12b) in accordance with a control input of the direction switching valve (2). Accordingly, the closed center type direction switching valve is shortened in axial length of a spool of the direction switching valve as compared with an open center type direction switching valve, achieves an improvement in working accuracy and compactness, and can function in an equivalent manner to an open center type direction switching valve without the use of any controller.
Abstract:
When a mode signal Sm of a mode switch (13) is ON, an arithmetic unit (12a) of a controller (12) executes learning control in which a driving current (I) corresponding to a predetermined target pump rotation theta 0 is supplied to a proportional solenoid valve (3) to determine the difference between the target pump rotation theta 0 and actual pump rotation theta and the difference is stored as a corrective value DELTA theta 0 in an EEPROM of a memory unit (12b). When the mode signal Sm of the mode switch (13) is OFF, the arithmetic unit executes normal control in which the corrective value DELTA theta 0 stored in the memory unit (12b) is added to the target pump rotation theta 0 and a driving current (I) corresponding to this corrected target pump rotation theta 0 is supplied to the proportional solenoid valve (3). Therefore, even when any variance exists in the input/output characteristics of a regulator as displacement control means (control objet) of a hydraulic pump and the proportional solenoid valve, variance of actual pump rotation as the output of the control object can be reduced.
Abstract:
In a hydraulic controller, in order to easily provide a hydraulic back-up in the event of a failure of an electric system while maintaining a benefit of electrical control using a control unit (13) when controlling a displacement of a hydraulic pump (1) in accordance with a property of a hydraulic driving system, a pump regulator (16) is constructed such that the tilt theta of a swash plate (1a) increases as the pressure of a second oil pressure signal P.c decreases, the pump regulator is characterized in that a negative control pressure can be used instead of the second oil pressure signal, and the properties of a fixed throttle (10) and the pump regulator spring (18d) are set such that the pump regulator can be operated within an operation range of the negative control pressure. In a controlling unit (13), a negative control pressure Pc1 corrected in a block (102) is made to be a target value of the second oil pressure signal, a second electric signal E corresponding to the target value is obtained, and the operational range of a second oil pressure signal generated by a solenoid proportional valve (15) is made substantially equal to the negative control pressure.
Abstract:
A controller (24) is provided with function generators (151 and 152). The generator (151) has such a characteristic that a first target tilt amount theta N increases from a minimum value to a maximum value as the detected value PN of a pressure sensor (21) for negative control pressure decreases; the generator (152) has such a characteristic that a second target tilt amount theta B increases from a prescribed minimum value to the same maximum value as the detected value PB of the manipulated variable (pilot pressure) for driving a boom cylinder increases. The controller (24) selects the smaller one out of the two target tilt amounts and drives a proportional solenoid valve (25) based on the smaller value. Therefore, undesired speed increase of such a specific hydraulic actuator as a swinging motor (9), etc., other than boom cylinders which occurs at the time of controlling the tilt amount in accordance with a negative control pressure can be suppressed.
Abstract:
A hydraulic control valve device provided with spool type flow rate control valves (200A, 201A; 200; 204), wherein in order to control a flow rate of pressure oil supplied from a pump path (5) to a pair of main variable throttles (16A, 16B) through a feeder path (7) and to control a flow rate of pressure oil flowing into a pair of load paths (6A, 6B) in an auxiliary manner, direction changing-over valve devices (100A; 101A; 102A; 103A; 105A; 106A; 107A; 108A; 110A; 111A; 112A; 113A; 114A) comprises: (a) seat valves (300, 301) provided in the feeder path, having a seat valve body (20) movably provided in a housing (1) and forming an auxiliary variable throttle (28) in the feeder path and a variable control throttle (33) formed on the seat valve body, for varying an opening area in response to a distance of move of the seat valve body; (b) pilot lines (24, 29 - 31, 35 - 37) for allowing communication between the upstream side (7C) of the auxiliary variable throttle of the feeder path and the downstream sides (7A, 7B) of the feeder path through the variable control throttle to determine a distance of move of the seat valve body by a flow rate of pressure oil flowing through the above-described lines; and (c) pilot flow rate control valves (400; 401; 403; 405; 406; 407; 408) each having a pilot variable throttle (45) in a pilot line and means for receiving flow rate control signals to be input (800, 52 - 59, 159, 54 - 59, 231A, 231B, 251, 252), for varying an opening area of the pilot variable throttle in response to input flow rate control signals to thereby control flow rates of pressure oil flowing through the pilot lines.
Abstract:
An unloading valve adapted to open when a pressure difference between a discharge pressure and a maximum load pressure in a hydraulic pump exceeds a predetermined value and to make a flow quantity discharged from the hydraulic pump flow into a tank is connected to the hydraulic pump, a fixed throttle for producing control pressure corresponding to a flow quantity flowing out from the unloading valve is connected to the downstream side of the unloading valve, and a control device of the hydraulic pump is constructed such that, when the control pressure is high, the discharge flow rate of the hydraulic pump is decreased and, when the control pressure is low, the discharge flow rate is increased. Furthermore, in parallel to the unloading valve, and on the upstream side of the fixed throttle, a change-over valve is connected to the hydraulic pump, and this change-over valve is controlled such that, when the control input of a control lever is small, the opening area of the change-over valve is large, and, as the control input of the control lever is large, the opening area becomes small. With this arrangement, according to the control input of an operating means, either LS control by the unloading valve or bleed-off control by the change-over valve is performed selectively, so that a flow rate control utilizing the characteristics of the both controls can be performed.
Abstract:
A hydraulic drive unit provided with a hydraulic pump (11, 11A), a plurality of actuators (4-6) driven by a pressure oil supplied from the hydraulic pump, which include an arm cylinder (5) and a boom cylinder (4), a plurality of flow rate control valves (12, 14, 16) adapted to control the flows of the pressure oil supplied to these actuators, which include an arm direction control valve (14) and a boom direction control valve (12), and a plurality of divided flow compensating valves (13, 15, 17; 13A, 15A, 17A) adapted to control the pressure differences across these flow rate control valves and having driving means (13d, 15d, 17d; 13e, 13f, 15e, 15f, 17e, 17f) for setting target levels of pressure differences across the corresponding flow rate control valves. It is characterized in that it has a first means (21) for detecting an arm crowding action made by driving the arm cylinder (5), and second means (24, 30, 31; 24, 30A, 31) for controlling the driving means (15d, 15f) for the corresponding divided flow compensating valves (15; 15A) so that the target level of pressure difference across at least the flow rate control vale (14) related to the arm cylinder decrease when an arm crowding action is detected.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a hydraulic driving unit provided with: an engine (1); a variable capacity hydraulic pump (2) driven by said engine; at least one hydraulic actuator driven by oil delivered from the pump (6); a control valve means (8) for interconnecting the hydraulic pump and actuator and controlling the flow rate of hydraulic fluid fed to the actuator according to the degree of operation of an operating means (58); a pump control means (17) for controlling the displacement volume of the hydraulic pump according to the degree of operation of the operating means so that the discharge quantity of the hydraulic pump increases as the aforesaid degree of operation increases; and an engine control means (29) for controlling the RPM of the engine. The engine control means (29) monitors whether or not the discharge quantity of the hydraulic pump (2) reaches saturation and, when a specified saturation condition is reached by hydraulic pump, it can exhibit such functions (33, 36) as increasing the RPM of the engine (1) and eliminating saturation.
Abstract:
A hydraulic drive unit comprises a hydraulic pump (1), a plurality of hydraulic actuators (2, 3) driven by the hydraulic oil supplied from the hydraulic pump, a plurality of flow rate control valves (4, 5) for controlling the flow of the hydraulic oil, and a plurality of branch flow compensating valves (6, 7) for respectively controlling the differential pressure preceding or following each of the flow rate control valves, the plurality of actuators (2, 3) including a first actuator (2) whose load pressure tends to become relatively large and a second actuator (3) whose load pressure is smaller than that of the first actuator. Branch flow control means (22, 33) are provided to control the branch flow compensating valve (7) involved in controlling the second actuator in such a manner that, while the first and second actuators (2, 3) are being driven on a multiplicable basis, the preceding and following pressure (Pz2-P12) of the flow rate control valve (5) involved in the second actuator (3) is made greater than the pressure (Pz1-P11) thereof.
Abstract:
A hydraulic pilot type direction control valve, in which a pilot pressure oil is introduced into at least one pilot hydraulic chamber (40, 41; 76), which is formed in a block (39; 64; 75) in hydraulic pilot operating portions (32, 33; 61; 72), to drive spools (37, 38; 74). A drain passage (54; 82) is formed in the vicinity of the pilot hydraulic chambers (40, 41; 76) in the block (39; 64; 75), and the pilot hydraulic chambers and this drain passage are communicating with each other via very narrow passage means (52, 53; 83) used as air vents.