US 11,993,919 B2
Work vehicle
Satoru Kaneko, Tokyo (JP); Akinori Kamiya, Tokyo (JP); Noritaka Itou, Tsuchiura (JP); and Hiroshi Utashiro, Tsuchiura (JP)
Assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/265,640
Filed by Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Aug. 9, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/031544
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 3, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/032225, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-151140 (JP), filed on Aug. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0324607 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. H02P 3/14 (2006.01); B60W 10/08 (2006.01); B60W 10/26 (2006.01); B60W 20/00 (2016.01); E02F 9/20 (2006.01); H02P 3/18 (2006.01)
CPC E02F 9/2075 (2013.01) [E02F 9/2091 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A work vehicle, comprising:
an engine;
a hydraulic pump driven by the engine;
a hydraulic cylinder driven by hydraulic fluid delivered from the hydraulic pump;
a work device moved with elongation and contraction of the hydraulic cylinder;
a motor generator rotated by the engine to generate electric power;
a first inverter that controls the motor generator;
a traveling electric motor driven by the electric power generated by the motor generator;
a second inverter connected to the first inverter through a DC bus to control output torque of the traveling electric motor; and
a controller that controls a voltage of the DC bus, wherein,
the controller is configured to decrease the output torque of the traveling electric motor according to an amount of decrease in the voltage of the DC bus when the voltage of the DC bus drops below a first threshold value as a load on the traveling electric motor increases; and wherein,
the controller is configured to decrease the output torque of the traveling electric motor to a value within a range of magnitude with which the work vehicle stays stationary on a level ground when the voltage of the DC bus drops below a second threshold value lower than the first threshold value.