Hydraulic control arrangement for supplying pressure medium to at least two hydraulic consumers
11268545 · 2022-03-08
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Abstract
A hydraulic control arrangement for simultaneously supplying at least two hydraulic consumers with predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates includes a hydraulic pump having an adjustable swept volume, and at least two valve arrangements each including a variable metering restrictor and a pressure balance arranged downstream of the variable metering restrictor. Each pressure balance is configured to be acted on in an opening direction by pressure downstream of the respective variable metering restrictor and to be acted on in a closing direction by a highest load pressure or by a pressure derived therefrom. Each valve arrangement is arranged between a pump line, which leads away from the hydraulic pump, and a consumer of the at least two hydraulic consumers. The arrangement further includes an electronic control device, by which the hydraulic pump is actuatable such that it conveys a sum of the predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates.
Claims
1. A hydraulic control arrangement for simultaneously supplying at least two hydraulic consumers with predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates, the hydraulic control arrangement comprising: a hydraulic pump having an adjustable swept volume and configured to convey a sum of the predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates; at least two valve arrangements, each respective valve arrangement comprising a respective variable metering restrictor and a respective pressure balance arranged downstream of the respective variable metering restrictor, wherein each respective pressure balance is configured to be acted on (i) in an opening direction by a pressure downstream of the respective variable metering restrictor, and (ii) in a closing direction by a highest load pressure or by a pressure derived therefrom, and wherein each respective valve arrangement is arranged between a pump line leading away from the hydraulic pump and a respective hydraulic consumer of the at least two hydraulic consumers; and an electronic control device configured to actuate the variable metering restrictors with control signals, such that throughflow cross sections of the variable metering restrictors have the same ratios with respect to one another as the predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates, wherein in a case that multiple of the variable metering restrictors are actuated simultaneously and, in an event of a supply deficit, the sum of the predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates exceeds a maximum conveying flow rate of the hydraulic pump and, for benefit of a preferential hydraulic consumer of the at least two hydraulic consumers, which is to be preferentially supplied with pressure medium, for the simultaneously actuated variable metering restrictors to be actuated with control signals, the ratios of which with respect to one another deviate from the ratios of the predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates, wherein, in the event of the supply deficit, the throughflow cross section of the variable metering restrictor assigned to the preferential hydraulic consumer is, in the case of the same predefinable individual pressure medium flow rate for the preferential consumer, increased in size in relation to a case of sufficient conveying flow rate, and wherein, in the case of the supply deficit, the throughflow cross section of the variable metering restrictor assigned to a lower-priority hydraulic consumer of the at least two hydraulic consumers is, in the case of the same predefinable individual pressure medium flow rate for the lower-priority hydraulic consumer, reduced in size in relation to a case of sufficient conveying flow rate.
2. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 1, wherein, in the event of the supply deficit, the variable metering restrictor assigned to the preferential hydraulic consumer and the variable metering restrictor assigned to a lower-priority hydraulic consumer of the at least two hydraulic consumers are actuated such that, in relation to the case of sufficient conveying flow rate, the ratio between the control signal for the variable metering restrictor assigned to the preferential hydraulic consumer and the control signal for the variable metering restrictor assigned to the lower-priority hydraulic consumer is increased, and the pressure medium flow rate flowing to the preferential hydraulic consumer is reduced.
3. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 2, wherein the variable metering restrictors are actuatable such that a minimum flow rate of pressure medium still flows to the lower-priority hydraulic consumer.
4. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 1, wherein: a group includes at least two equally preferential hydraulic consumers of the at least two hydraulic consumers, and in the event of the supply deficit, the control signals to the variable metering restrictors assigned to the at least two equally preferential hydraulic consumers are changed proportionally in relation to the control signals in a case of sufficient conveying flow rate.
5. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 1, wherein: a group includes at least two equally lower-priority hydraulic consumers of the at least two hydraulic consumers, and in the event of the supply deficit, the control signals to the variable metering restrictors assigned to the lower-priority hydraulic consumers are changed proportionally in relation to the control signals in a case of sufficient conveying flow rate.
6. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 5, wherein, in the event of the supply deficit, a minimum flow rate still flows, in sum total, to the group of at least two equally lower-priority hydraulic consumers.
7. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the electronic control device has an input for a signal which indicates a rotational speed of the hydraulic pump.
8. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the hydraulic pump is configured for control with closed-loop volume flow control by the electronic control device, with a control signal corresponding to the sum of the predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates taking into consideration a rotational speed of the hydraulic pump, such that the hydraulic pump conveys the sum of the predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates.
9. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 1, wherein: the variable metering restrictors are each formed at a control slide valve, and the control slide valve is electrohydraulically actuatable.
10. The hydraulic control arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising: at least one operator control element configured to generate signals corresponding to the predefinable individual pressure medium flow rates for the electronic control device.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
(1) Two exemplary embodiments of a hydraulic control arrangement according to the disclosure, a diagram with an exemplary distribution of a maximum conveying flow rate of a hydraulic pump between different hydraulic consumers, and a more detailed circuit diagram of a hydraulic pump, the swept volume of which is electronically controlled in closed-loop fashion and which is usable in a hydraulic control arrangement as per
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
(6) The hydraulic control arrangement as per
(7) The hydraulic control arrangement as per
(8) In both hydraulic control arrangements, the hydraulic consumer 12 is fluidically connectable via a valve arrangement 25, the hydraulic consumer 13 is fluidically connectable via a valve arrangement 26, the hydraulic consumer 14 is fluidically connectable via a valve arrangement 27 and the hydraulic consumer 15 is fluidically connectable via a valve arrangement 28 to the pump line 17. Each valve arrangement 25, 26, 27 and 28 has an electrohydraulically proportionally adjustable variable metering restrictor 30, which is commonly formed at a control slide valve which also serves for the directional control of the respective hydraulic consumer, and a pressure balance 31, which is arranged downstream of the variable metering restrictor 30, between the latter and the respective hydraulic consumer. All pressure balances 31 are acted on in a closing direction by the highest load pressure of all simultaneously actuated hydraulic consumers and possibly by a low-strength spring and in an opening direction by the pressure prevailing between a variable metering restrictor and a pressure balance. If one disregards a low-strength spring that may be present, then the pressure between a variable metering restrictor and a pressure balance is equal to the highest load pressure, because the closed-loop control piston of a pressure balance seeks in each case to assume a position in which forces acting thereon are in equilibrium, and said closed-loop control piston therefore throttles the volume of flow flowing to a hydraulic consumer in each case with such intensity until the pressure acting in an opening direction is equal to the highest load pressure acting in the closing direction. Because all pressure balances are acted on with the same force in a closing direction, the same pressure prevails downstream of all variable metering restrictors, such that the same pressure difference prevails across all variable metering restrictors, specifically the difference between the pump pressure prevailing in the pump line and the pressure downstream of the variable metering restrictors. If the pump pressure changes, the pressure difference across all actuated variable metering restrictors changes by the same amount irrespective of the individual load pressure of the hydraulic consumers. This means that, in the event of a change of the pump pressure, the volume flow distribution between the actuated variable metering restrictors is maintained irrespective of load pressure.
(9) In both exemplary embodiments, the highest load pressure is selected by way of a chain of shuttle valves 33 and transmitted to one side of the pressure balances 31. In the exemplary embodiment as per
(10) In
(11) The hydraulic control arrangement as per
(12) The hydraulic control arrangement as per
(13) In both exemplary embodiments, the control units 35 and 36, via the electrical lines 36, 37, 38 and 39, actuate the variable metering restrictors 30 of the valve arrangements 25, 26, 27 and 28, in a manner dependent on the individual pressure medium flow rates predefined by means of the joystick 41, such that, at the variable metering restrictors, throughflow cross sections are consequently generated which have the same ratio with respect to one another as the predefined individual pressure medium flow rates. If one assumes, by way of example, that the same first pressure medium flow rate is to flow to both hydraulic cylinders 12 and 13 simultaneously, a second pressure medium flow rate which is twice the first pressure medium flow rate is to flow to the hydraulic cylinder 14, and a third pressure medium flow rate which is three times the first pressure medium flow rate is to flow to the hydraulic cylinder 15, then the variable metering restrictors are actuated such that their throughflow cross sections have a ratio of one to one to two to three.
(14) In the exemplary embodiment as per
(15) By contrast, in the exemplary embodiment as per
(16) In the case of an actuation of the variable metering restrictors in a manner corresponding to the predefined individual pressure medium flow rates, the pressure medium flow rates flowing to the hydraulic consumers would be relatively reduced if the hydraulic pump cannot convey the sum of the predefined individual pressure medium flow rates, that is to say in the case of the supply deficit.
(17) According to the disclosure, it is however now provided that, in the case of the supply deficit, particular hydraulic consumers are supplied with pressure medium preferentially in relation to other hydraulic consumers. For this purpose, in the case of the hydraulic control arrangements as per
(18) By way of example, let it be assumed that, in the case of the hydraulic control arrangements as per
(19) By means of the joystick 41, it is now the case that, for the hydraulic cylinder 14, instead of 40 liters, 60 liters is now also demanded, as for the hydraulic cylinder 13, such that the sum of the predefined individual pressure medium flow rates increases to 200 liters. In the control unit 35 or 36, it is identified that a supply deficit is present. Depending on what sequence is stored in the control unit, the actuation of the variable metering restrictors is now changed in a different way. The throughflow cross section of the variable metering restrictor assigned to the hydraulic cylinder 12 can remain unchanged, whereas the throughflow cross sections of the variable metering restrictors assigned to the hydraulic cylinders 13 and 14 can be reduced to a throughflow cross section which corresponds to 50 liters. It is however also possible for the throughflow cross section of the variable metering restrictor assigned to the hydraulic cylinder 12 to be increased in size to 96 liters while the throughflow cross sections of the variable metering restrictors assigned to the hydraulic cylinders 13 and 14 remain unchanged. It is also conceivable for the throughflow cross section of one variable metering restrictor to be increased in size and for the throughflow cross sections of the two other variable metering restrictors to be reduced in size. For example, the throughflow cross section of the variable metering restrictor assigned to the hydraulic cylinder 12 may be set to correspond to 88 liters. The throughflow cross sections of the two other variable metering restrictors then correspond to 55 liters.
(20) The diagram as per
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(22) From the height of the small rectangles, it can be seen that equal pressure medium flow rates are demanded for all six hydraulic consumers 46 to 51. Also, from the height of the rectangle 45, it can be seen that the sum of the demanded pressure medium flow rates greatly exceeds the maximum conveying flow rate of the hydraulic pump 45. The manner in which the maximum conveying flow rate of the hydraulic pump 44 is now distributed will become clear on the basis of the rectangle 52, the height of which corresponds to the height of the hydraulic pump 44 and thus symbolizes the maximum conveying flow rate of the hydraulic pump 44. Plotted one above the other in the rectangle 52 are six relatively small rectangles which individually represent the six consumers 46 to 51 and the height of which is a measure of the pressure medium flow rate actually flowing to a hydraulic consumer. It can be seen that the minimum flow rate provided in sum total for the hydraulic consumers 49, 50 and 51, which are of equal priority to one another, has been distributed uniformly between these hydraulic consumers. It can also be seen that the remaining flow rate available for distribution has been distributed uniformly between the hydraulic consumers 46, 47 and 48, which are of equal priority to one another, wherein a greater pressure medium flow rate flows to each preferential hydraulic consumer 46, 47 and 48 than to each lower-priority hydraulic consumer 49, 50 and 51.
(23) Here, too, a numerical example will be considered in which, again, the maximum conveying flow rate of the hydraulic pump will be assumed to be 180 liters. It is the intention for 60 liters to flow to the hydraulic consumers 49, 50 and 51 even in the case of a supply deficit. Let it be assumed that, now, by way of one or more joysticks, equal pressure medium flow rates of 60 liters are demanded for all hydraulic consumers. The sum of the demanded pressure medium flow rates is thus 360 liters and greatly exceeds the maximum conveying flow rate of the hydraulic pump. The variable metering restrictors are thus actuated such that 20 liters of pressure medium flow to each of the hydraulic consumers 49, 50 and 51, and 40 liters of pressure medium flow to each of the hydraulic consumers 46, 47 and 48. The variable metering restrictors are thus actuated such that the throughflow cross section of the variable metering restrictors assigned to the preferential hydraulic consumers 46, 47 and 48 is twice the throughflow cross section of the variable metering restrictors assigned to the lower-priority hydraulic consumers 49, 50 and 51. It would thus be possible for the throughflow cross section of the variable metering restrictors assigned to the preferential hydraulic consumers 46, 47 and 48 to be set to a value that is provided for 60 liters in the case of a sufficient supply, and for the throughflow cross section of the variable metering restrictors assigned to the lower-priority hydraulic consumers 49, 50 and 51 to be set to a value that is provided for 30 liters in the case of a sufficient supply.
(24) The circuit diagram as per
(25) The inflow and outflow of pressure medium to and from an actuating chamber into which the actuating piston 62 protrudes is controlled by means of a proportionally adjustable 3/2 directional valve 70 which, in a rest position which it assumes under the action of a pressure spring 71, connects the actuating chamber to its pressure connection at which, likewise, the higher pressure selected by the shuttle valve 65 prevails. By means of a proportional electromagnet 72, the 3/2 directional valve 70 can be moved into a position in which pressure medium can flow out from the actuating chamber into the interior of the housing of the hydraulic pump and onward from there via a tank connection T to a tank. The proportional electromagnet 72 is actuated by the electronic control unit 67, in a manner corresponding to the specifications imparted by way of a joystick (not illustrated in
(26) The actuation of variable metering restrictors by means of the electronic control unit 67 is performed by means of a hydraulic pump as per
LIST OF REFERENCE DESIGNATIONS
(27) 10 Hydraulic pump 11 Load sensing closed-loop controller 12 Hydraulic cylinder 13 Hydraulic cylinder 14 Hydraulic cylinder 15 Hydraulic cylinder 16 Tank 17 Pump line 20 Hydraulic pump 21 EP closed-loop control unit 25 Valve arrangement 26 Valve arrangement 27 Valve arrangement 28 Valve arrangement 30 Variable metering restrictor 31 Pressure balance 33 Shuttle valve 35 Electronic control unit 36 Electronic control unit 37 Electrical line 38 Electrical line 39 Electrical line 40 Electrical line 41 Joystick 42 Input signal, rotational speed 44 Hydraulic pump 45 Rectangle 46 Hydraulic consumer 47 Hydraulic consumer 48 Hydraulic consumer 49 Hydraulic consumer 50 Hydraulic consumer 51 Hydraulic consumer 52 Rectangle 60 Hydraulic pump 62 Actuating piston 63 Opposing piston 64 Spring 65 Shuttle valve 66 Pivot angle sensor 67 Electronic control unit 68 Pressure sensor 70 3/2 directional valve 71 Pressure spring 72 Proportional electromagnet S Tank connection A Pressure connection P External pressure connection T Tank connection