Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

Masakazu Haga

Hiroshi Watanabe

Kazuo Fujishima

Toichi Hirata

Genroku Sugiyama

Hiroyuki Adachi

Hideaki Tanaka

Akira Tatsumi

Eiji Egawa

Osamu Tomikawa

Takashi Nakagawa

Kuniaki Yoshida

Eiji Yamagata

Yusuke Kajita

Sadahisa Tomita

Masaki Egashira

Touichi Hirata

Kazunori Nakamura

Eiki Izumi

Hiroshi Ogura

Hiroshi Onoue

Mitsuo Kihara

Nobuya Okabe

Ryohei Suzuki

Junichi Hosono

Toshiaki Nishida

Ichiro Hirami

Toshio Hasegawa

Koji Tahara

Shuji Ohira

Kazuo Shitina-Kandatsu-C-101 Fujishima

In a working apparatus, a recessed portion is formed at an end surface of a pin provided at a boom to house a case of an angle sensor in the recessed portion. A flange is projected from the case along the direction of the axis of an input shaft so as to enclose the input shaft outside the movement range of a lever. By projecting the flange further out than the distance over which the input axis projects out, the protection provided by the flange for the input shaft is enhanced.

Working apparatus for construction machine

Whether a previously computed valve command value Y&minus;1 is within a neutral zone &plusmn;&agr; is determine. If the determination result is &ldquo;Yes&rdquo;, processing to compute a valve command value for a neutral dead zone is executed. If the determination result is &ldquo;No&rdquo;, processing to compute a valve command value for a driving zone is executed. In the latter case, by using a valve command value X and the previously computed valve command value Y&minus;1, it is determined in which one of acceleration, deceleration/stop, and lever-reversed condition is the operating status, and a maximum setting rate in one of acceleration, deceleration/stop, and lever-reversed condition is computed from a corresponding function &Dgr;Y&equals;fmax (X), etc. Then, a control signal is computed while restraining a change rate of the operational signal to be kept not more than the computed maximum change rate, and a flow control valve is controlled in accordance with the computed control signal. As a result, in a hydraulic drive system for controlling a flow control valve with an electrical operational signal to control the operation of an actuator, the flow control valve can be controlled at an optimum maximum change rate in any operating status of acceleration, deceleration/stop, and lever-reversed condition.

Hydraulic circuit control device of construction machinery

An area limiting excavation control system in an excavation machine having a front device, includes means for setting in advance, an area where the front device is movable. A control unit calculates the position and posture of the front device based on signals from angle sensors. When the front device is inside the set area near the boundary thereof, the control unit calculates a limit value (a) of a bucket tip speed so that a moving speed of the front device in the direction vertical to the boundary of the set area is restricted, and then modifies the limit value (a) depending on a load pressure of an arm cylinder detected by a pressure sensor. It further calculates, from the limit value (a), a limit value of the component of a boom-dependent bucket tip speed vertical to the boundary of the set area, and then modifies a boom operation signal so that the boom-dependent bucket tip speed will not exceed the above limit value. Ground can be excavated to the boundary of the set area without being affected by hardness of the ground to be excavated, while using a simple program.

Device for controlling limited-area excavation with construction machine

A setting device for a front control system for a construction machine includes a direct setting switch for instructing a direct teaching setting, a numeral input key consisting of up- and down-keys for instructing a numeral input setting, a setting changeover switch for changing over a setting mode from the direct teaching setting to the numeral input setting, an LED lighting up when the setting changeover switch is pushed, an area limiting switch for starting an area limiting excavation control, an LED lighting up when the area limiting switch is pushed, and a display screen for indicating the position of a bucket end of a front device in terms of a numeral value when the setting changeover switch is not pushed, and indicating the numeral value input with the numeral input with the numeral input setting when the setting changeover switch is pushed.

Front control system, area setting method and control panel for construction machine

Slope excavation controller of hydraulic shovel, target slope setting

An area where a front device (1A) is allowed to move is set beforehand and the operation of the front device is controlled so that the front device will not go out of the set area. For this control process, an arm cylinder speed calculating portion (9d) of a control unit (9) estimates an arm cylinder speed for use in control by taking the sum of a low-frequency component of an arm cylinder speed which is derived through coordinate transformation and differentiation of an arm rotational angle detected by an angle sensor (8b), and a high-frequency component of an arm cylinder speed which is derived from a command value applied from a control lever unit (14b) to a flow control valve (15b) for an arm and a flow rate characteristic of the flow control valve (15b). The control unit controls the operation of the front device with the estimated operating speed. The operation of the front device is thereby controlled smoothly and accurately regardless of change in any parameters, such as load and fluid temperature, affecting the flow rate characteristic of the flow control valve.

Front control system for construction machine

An excavation area setting system for area limiting excavation control in construction machines, with the excavation control being performed to calculate a target speed vector for control of a front device on the basis of a body, modify the target speed vector to limit a moving speed of the front device in the direction toward a boundary of a preset excavation area when the front device comes close to the boundary of the excavation area, and move the front device along the boundary of the excavation area. To set the excavation area, an external reference is installed horizontally outside the hydraulic excavator and a depth from the external reference to the boundary of the excavation area is set by using a setting device. The excavation area is set in a manner matched with the excavation control in which calculation is executed based on the position of the body.

Excavation area setting system for area limiting excavation control in

A calculating portion 7a calculates a distance from the tip end of a front device to an interference prevention area, and a detection line 7m detects a moving speed of a boom 1. If the tip end of the front device comes close to the interference prevention area when the boom 1 is moving upward, control is made such that, while continuing to move the boom 1 upward, a control gain calculating portion 7h and a multiplier 7i cooperatively calculate a target speed of an arm in the arm dumping direction (interference avoiding direction) corresponding to the boom-up speed, and an input limit value calculating portion 7c, an adder 7j and a minimum value selecting portion 7f cooperatively control the arm to move in the interference avoiding direction relative to a vehicle body. Interference avoidance control enabling the tip end of the front device to be moved smoothly along the vicinity of a boundary of the interference prevention area is thereby effected and the front device can be prevented from interfering with the vehicle body without reducing the maneuverability and the working efficiency.

Interference preventing system for construction machine

A locus control system of hydraulic excavators whereby a target locus for a front device is set beforehand. A control unit calculates a position and posture of the front device based on signals from angle sensors, and calculates a target speed vector of the front device based on signals from control lever devices. Through this calculation process, the control unit maintains the target speed vector as it is when the front device is not near the target locus, and modifies the target speed vector to a vector pointing to a second point on the target locus advanced in the excavating direction by a second distance from a first point located on the target locus at a minimum distance from a tip of the front device, when the front device is near the target locus.

Locus control system for construction machines

In an oil temperature detecting/calculating portion 9p, threshold values T.sub.1, T.sub.2 are set beforehand to divide a range of oil temperature into a first oil temperature range a representing the lowest level, a second oil temperature range b representing a relatively low level, and a third oil temperature range c representing a normal level. The calculating portion 9p executes an alarm control process for making the alarm lamp 14 light up continuously when the detected oil temperature is in the first oil temperature range a, making the alarm lamp 14 blink when it is in the second oil temperature range b, and making the alarm lamp 14 turn out when it is in the third oil temperature range c. This enables a front control system for a construction machine to perform front control accurately and safely even when the temperature of hydraulic oil is low.

Front control system for construction machine and oil temperature

Region limiting excavation control system for construction machine

A work area limitation control system for a construction machine which includes a second entrance forbidden area calculating portion which sets a second entrance forbidden area positioned closer to a front device than a first entrance forbidden area. A slowdown control calculating portion calculates distances between two monitoring points and the second and first entrance forbidden areas and modifies operation signals (pilot pressures) depending on the relation of the calculated distances with respect to a slowdown distance.

Work area limitation control system for construction machine

Area limiting excavation control system for construction machines

In an area limiting excavation control system for construction machines such as hydraulic excavators, excavation is smoothly and efficiently carried out within a limited area by setting an area beforehand where a front attachment (1A) is movable, calculating the position and posture of the front-attachment (1A) by a control unit (9) based on signals from angle sensors (8a) to (8c), calculating a limit value of the component of the boom-dependent bucket tip speed vertical to the boundary of the set area so that when the front attachment is inside the set area near the boundary thereof, the moving speed of the front attachment in the direction vertical to the boundary of the set area is restricted, and when the front attachment is outside the set area, it is returned to the set area, and modifying a boom operation signal so as to prevent the boom-dependent bucket tip speed from exceeding the limit value.

Area limiting excavation control system for construction machine

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Ibaraki-ken, Japan

Masakazu Haga