A carrier comprising at least one hydraulic cylinder having a piston, a controller and a piston position sensor, wherein the carrier is arranged to carry a tool through the use of the hydraulic cylinder and wherein the controller is configured to: receive control input for moving the tool; receive piston position information for at least one piston of the at least one cylinders; determine a current angle for the tool based on the piston position information; and determine that the current angle approximates a desired angle, and in response thereto halt the tool at the desired angle. According to an aspect the controller may be configured to detect and determine the position of a subject relative the carrier based on hydraulic pressure information and tool operational information. Further, the application concerns methods applied with the embodiments of said carrier.

A hydraulic valve control unit is for an open center hydraulic system including a pump, a shunt valve and one or more actuator valves coupled to the shunt valve. Each actuator valve controls a corresponding actuator's position. The hydraulic valve control unit has a processor and a memory, containing instructions executable by the processor, and is configured to obtain user input data indicative of a desired actuator's position, determining opening area values of the one or more actuator valves using a predetermined relation dependent on the user input data, determining an opening area value of the shunt valve using the predetermined relation dependent on the user input data, controlling the shunt valve based on the opening area value of the shunt valve, and controlling the one or more actuator valves based on the opening area values of the one or more actuator valves.

The present invention relates to a mobile work machine, in particular to a wheeled loader, having a hydraulic circuit, having a pump for conveying a hydraulic medium through the hydraulic circuit, and having at least one control block having an inflow control edge and an outflow control edge for controlling the flow of the hydraulic medium, wherein the work machine has a working tool and a cylinder for actuating the working tool and wherein the cylinder has an outflow and in inflow for the hydraulic medium, and wherein the outflow is in fluid communication with the outflow control edge and the inflow is in fluid communication with the inflow control edge, and wherein the inflow control edge does not have any or has fewer fine control notches than the outflow control edge and thus works in a largely unrestricted manner, while the outflow control edge is equipped with one or more fine control notches so that with a pulling load at the working tool, the outflow control edge restricts the outflow amount through the outflow of the cylinder.

A controller (25) of the hydraulic excavator (1) includes a signal separation section (150) that separates each of target speed signals for a plurality of front members (8, 9, 10) into a low frequency component and a high frequency component, a high fluctuation target speed calculation section (143) that allocates the separated high frequency components preferentially to a front member having a relatively small inertial load to calculate high fluctuation target speeds individually for the plurality of front members, a high fluctuation target actuator speed calculation section (141c) that calculates high fluctuation target speeds individually for the plurality of actuators from the high fluctuation target speeds for the plurality of front members, a low fluctuation target actuator speed calculation section (141b) that calculates low fluctuation target speeds individually for the plurality of actuators from the low frequency components separated by the signal separation section, and an actuator controller (200) that controls the plurality of actuators individually based on values obtained by adding the high fluctuation target speeds and the low fluctuation target speeds.

A construction machine capable of reducing a resistance that a bucket receives from the ground and improving smoothness of a construction surface includes a working device including a working device body and a bucket, first and second bucket actuators that rotationally move the bucket, and a control device. The control device controls the second bucket actuator to make the second bucket actuator periodically oscillate the bucket in a direction of a yaw motion during excavation work or ground leveling work.

A control device of a loading machine includes an adjustment determination unit and an operation signal output unit. The loading machine includes a swing motor and a swing body. The adjustment determination unit determines whether or not an angle formed by an azimuth direction of a swing body when the swing body stops and a target stop azimuth direction is less than an allowable angle based on an azimuth direction, a swing speed, and the target stop azimuth direction of the swing body during braking of the swing motor. The operation signal output unit outputs a swing control signal for driving the swing motor in a case in which it is determined that the angle formed by the azimuth direction of the swing body when the swing body stops and the target stop azimuth direction is equal to or greater than the allowable angle.

Provided is a work machine including: first and second work actuator control valves; a work command adjuster that changes a work command to be input to the second work actuator control valve in accordance with a work adjustment command; and a controller including an adjustment command part that inputs the work adjustment command to the work command adjuster. The adjustment command part performs an asynchronization control in a single work operation state and a synchronization control in a combination operation state including a turning deceleration operation and a work operation. For the synchronization control, the adjustment command part generates the work adjustment command to render a minimum work operation amount to open the first work actuator control valve equal to a minimum work operation amount to close the second work actuator control valve and inputs it to the work command adjuster.

A construction machine includes: a flow rate regulating part which regulates a flow rate of hydraulic oil supplied from a hydraulic pump to a hydraulic actuator, and a control device—which controls driving of a work device. The control device includes: an acquiring part for acquiring a motion state amount of a combined center of gravity of a plurality of members which constitute the work device; and a generating part which generates an instruction value for controlling an operation of the flow rate regulating part such that the motion state amount follows a predetermined first target value, the instruction value being used for executing a feedback control based on the first target value and the motion state amount, and inputs the instruction value to the flow rate regulating part.

In a hydraulic excavator including a main controller that can execute area restriction control, the main controller is configured to calculate an operation velocity Vfx of a front work device in a machine body coordinate system and a movement velocity (dragging velocity) Vu of a machine body in a gravity coordinate system and correct a direction of a calculated target velocity vector Vt upward away from a construction target surface when generation of dragging is detected during execution of the area restriction control based on the calculated operation velocity Vfx of the front work device 2 and the calculated movement velocity Vu of the machine body.

An adjustment system includes an adjustment mechanism disposed in association with a wear element of a blade of a motor grader, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of actuating the adjustment mechanism. The controller is configured to actuate the adjustment mechanism to force the wear element against a surface of the blade. The controller is configured to release the adjustment mechanism to unforce the wear element against the surface of the blade. The controller is configured to actuate at least one side shift cylinder to move the blade in a first direction. The controller is also configured to actuate the at least one side shift cylinder to move the blade in a second direction. The controller is further configured to lock the adjustment mechanism to retain the wear element against the surface of the blade.