| US 7,523,879 B2 | ||
| Crushing apparatus | ||
| Hiroyuki Umeda, Hirakata (Japan); Gosuke Nakashima, Hirakata (Japan); and Noriyuki Yoshida, Hirakata (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Komatsu Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/577,864 PCT Filed Oct. 29, 2004, PCT No. PCT/JP2004/016102 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Apr. 28, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2005/039777, PCT Pub. Date May 06, 2005. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2003-369579 (JP), filed on Oct. 29, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0131807 A1, Jun. 14, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. B02C 25/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 241—34 [241/101.761; 241/186.4] | 8 Claims |

| 1. A crushing apparatus comprising:
a rotary crusher;
a hydraulic motor for rotating the rotary crusher, wherein the hydraulic motor is a capacity variable motor that can be switched
between a predetermined capacity and a large capacity;
a feeder for feeding an object to be crushed to the rotary crusher;
a controller for controlling the feeder and the hydraulic motor;
a load detector for detecting a loading state of the hydraulic motor;
a load judging device for judging whether the loading state of the hydraulic motor detected by the load detector is in an
overloaded state or an underloaded state;
a feeding amount controller for decreasing or stopping a feeding by the feeder of the object to be crushed when the load judging
device judges that the hydraulic motor is in the overloaded state and for increasing or starting the feeding by the feeder
of the object to be crushed when the load judging device judges that the hydraulic motor is in the underloaded state; and
a motor capacity controller for changing a capacity of the capacity-variable motor to the large capacity when the load judging
device judges that the hydraulic motor is in the overloaded state;
wherein the feeding amount controller includes:
a crushing duration time measuring unit for measuring a crushing duration time between time points when the feeding of the
object to be crushed is increased or started and when the feeding of the object to be crushed is decreased or stopped;
a time judging unit for judging whether the measured crushing duration time is longer than a predefined set time; and
a feeding amount adjusting unit that decreases a capability of the feeder in a subsequent feeding process when the measured
crushing duration time is equal to or shorter than the set time, and increases the capability of the feeder in the subsequent
feeding process when the measured crushing duration time is longer than the set time.
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