Daewoo Heavy Industries Ltd.

Daewoo Heavy Industries America Corporation

Daewood Heavy Industries America Corporation

Daewood Heavy Industries Ltd.

Wesley Robert Cherry, Jr

Edward V Leskovec

A pump motor control apparatus is adapted to control a pump motor of a forklift truck by using a driving transistor connected between a battery and the pump motor. The pump motor control apparatus includes a current detection circuit for detecting a current flowing through the pump motor to generate a current detection signal representing the current. A controller is employed to determine the load condition based on the current detection signal to thereby generate a control signal for use in the control of the driving transistor. The control signal is a pulse width modulation signal whose on-duty ratio is controlled depending on the load condition so as to decrease the torque and speed of the pump motor during the unloaded condition but to increase the torque and speed of the pump motor during the loaded condition.

Apparatus for controlling a pump motor of a forklift truck

An accelerator device is used for electromotive vehicles which has an electric motor adapted to cause the vehicles to move forwards and backwards. The accelerator device includes an accelerator pedal depressible to swing between a rest position and a most depressed position. Operatively connected to the pedal is an elongated pliable strip which is slidable along a predefined moving way and carries a permanent magnet. A plurality of magnetoelectric sensors are arranged along the moving way of the strip with a substantially equal spacing from one another, each of the sensors capable of generating, when left deactivated, a pedal position signal of first logic level and activatable by the magnetic flux of the permanent magnet to produce a pedal position signal of second logic level as the permanent magnet moves over and above the respective one of the sensors. Responsive to the pedal position signals, a microprocessor is adapted to control the torque and speed of the electric motor by way of regulating the amount of electric current to be supplied to the electric motor. The magnetoelectric sensors include a Hall generator that normally gives an output voltage signal of logic level one but produces an output voltage signal of logic level zero when aligned with the permanent magnet.

Accelerator device for electromotive vehicles

A motor direction control device id used for electromotive vehicles which has an electric motor adapted to cause the vehicles to move forwards and backwards. The motor direction control device includes a direction control level shiftable from a neutral position into forward or reverse position. Operatively connected to the direction lever is an elongated pliable strip which is slidable along a predefined moving way by the shifting operation of the direction control lever and carries a permanent magnet. First and second magnetolectric sensors are arranged in a spaced-apart relationship with each other along the moving way of the elongated strip, each of the magnetoelectric sensors capable of generating, when left deactivated, a position signal of first logic level and activatable by the permanent magnet to produce a position signal of second logic level as the direction control lever is shifted into the forward or reverse position. Responsive to the position signals of first and second logic levels, a microprocessor is adapted to control the direction of rotation of the electric motor. A Hall generator may be utilized as the magnetoelectric sensors.

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Mayfield Heights, OH, United States of America

Wesley Robert Cherry, Jr