US 12,000,118 B2
Construction machine
Juri Shimizu, Tokyo (JP); Kenji Hiraku, Tsuchiura (JP); Hiromasa Takahashi, Tsuchiura (JP); and Teppei Saitoh, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/765,570
Filed by Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 30, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/037212
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 31, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/066029, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-183201 (JP), filed on Oct. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0364337 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. E02F 9/26 (2006.01); E02F 3/42 (2006.01); E02F 3/43 (2006.01); E02F 9/22 (2006.01)
CPC E02F 9/265 (2013.01) [E02F 3/425 (2013.01); E02F 3/437 (2013.01); E02F 9/2228 (2013.01); E02F 9/2267 (2013.01); E02F 9/2289 (2013.01); E02F 9/2292 (2013.01); E02F 9/2296 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A construction machine comprising:
a boom;
an arm pivotably attached to the boom;
a bucket pivotably attached to the arm;
a boom cylinder that drives the boom in a raising direction by extending operation, and drives the boom in a lowering direction by retracting operation;
an arm cylinder that drives the arm in a pushing direction by extending operation, and drives the arm in a crowding direction by retracting operation;
an operation device that operates the boom and the arm;
a bidirectionally tiltable first hydraulic pump that can be connected to the boom cylinder to form a closed circuit;
a bidirectionally tiltable second hydraulic pump that can be connected to the arm cylinder to form a closed circuit; and
a controller that, according to operation of the operation device, controls a flow rate of a hydraulic fluid supplied from the first hydraulic pump to the boom cylinder and a flow rate of the hydraulic fluid supplied from the second hydraulic pump to the arm cylinder, wherein
the construction machine includes
a boom angle sensor that senses an angle of the boom, and
a bucket locus selecting device that selects either one of an arc locus and a straight locus as a movement locus of the bucket, the movement locus being according to operation of the arm in the pushing direction, and
the controller is configured to,
in a case where the straight locus is selected by the bucket locus selecting device, calculate a constant flow rate ratio according to a boom initial angle that is the angle of the boom sensed by the boom angle sensor at a time point when the arm is operated in the pushing direction by the operation device, and control a delivery flow rate of the first hydraulic pump such that the hydraulic fluid is discharged from a cap chamber of the boom cylinder at a flow rate obtained by multiplying a rate of a flow supplied to a cap chamber of the arm cylinder by the flow rate ratio while the arm is operated in the pushing direction by the operation device and there is not an instruction for operation of the boom, and
control a delivery flow rate of the second hydraulic pump such that the hydraulic fluid is absorbed from the cap chamber of the arm cylinder by the second hydraulic pump at a flow rate according to input of the operation device independently of a selection state of the bucket locus selecting device while the arm is operated in the crowding direction by the operation device.