306 results about "Mobile crane" patented technology

A load-lifting apparatus has one or more prime power sources, one or more energy storage systems and regenerative braking. Regenerative energy is recovered when the load-lifting apparatus lowers its load. The elements of the prime power sources, energy storage devices and electrical components may be distributed to provide stability for the load-lifting apparatus. The general power architecture and energy recovery method can be applied to cranes, rubber-tired gantry cranes, overhead cranes, mobile cranes, ship-to-shore cranes, container cranes, rail-mounted gantry cranes, straddle carrier cranes and elevators. In such an architecture, the energy storage system helps alleviate the power rating requirement of the prime power source with respect to the peak power requirement for lifting a load.

The invention discloses an articulated front-handling mobile crane. The crane comprises at least one braking device, wherein at least one of a front-left wheel or a front-right wheel of the articulated front-handling mobile crane can be independently braked by the braking device. The invention also provides an operation control system for the articulated front-handling mobile crane, which comprises at least one braking device, an independent brake switch, a safety device, a vehicle speed monitoring device and a control device. The articulated front-handling mobile crane can take a front wheel on any side thereof as the center for steering, so the articulated front-handling mobile crane can remarkably reduce steering radius and improve placing accuracy and small-space activity ability of heavy objects. At the same time, the articulated front-handling mobile crane can also ensure that the braking device cannot be started during high-speed operation further to improve safety performance and ensure the safety of personnel, equipment and loads.

A vehicle body inclination angle regulating unit (17) includes a balancing oil cylinder (10). One chamber of the balancing oil cylinder (10) is connected with an oil tank (5) and an oil source for leveling operation via a first one-way damper valve (8) and an electric controlled switch valve (7), and the other chamber of the balancing oil cylinder (10) is connected with a non-rod chamber of a suspension oil cylinder via an electric controlled shutoff valve (14) and a second one-way damper valve (9). In addition, an automatically-leveling hydropneumatic suspension mechanism includes at least two pairs of suspension oil cylinders (12), vehicle body inclination angle regulating units (17), a vehicle body transverse inclination angle sensor (1) and a control unit (3). Each suspension oil cylinder (12) is correspondingly provided with the vehicle body inclination angle regulating unit (17) including the balancing oil cylinder (10). The present invention realizes effectively dynamic leveling function of different road conditions, especially transverse slopes, of the mobile crane. The mobile crane is provided with simple operation that are all automatically performed by the control unit, which improves driving safety remarkably and prevents an accident of vehicle overturning.

The invention involves craneless dismounting and/or mounting a vertically arranged wind turbine blade from a wind turbine generator hub mounted to a nacelle placed on a tower, said hub being arranged for having a number of blades attached. The method comprises mounting a number of bolt-like extensions in positions, where fastening bolts have been removed or could be received. These extensions are much longer than the fastening bolts, so that the blade may be handled using the extensions to a position where a lifting yoke may be attached or detached, either for lowering or lifting the blade. The method may be performed without at separate crane and is particularly useful in relation to blade maintenance, repair or replacement at remote wind turbine sites which would incur high costs for a mobile crane. Moreover, the method may be performed without having personnel going outside the hub or nacelle, but can stay at the ground and within the hub.

It has already long been known to use mobile cranes for mounting rotor blades to a wind power installation. Such cranes pick up the rotor blade at the base of the wind power installation and take it to the rotor blade connection of the hub of the wind power installation so that the rotor blade can be connected to the hub. That connection is usually made by screw means, in which case screw bolts are let into the connecting flange of the rotor blade and project into corresponding bores in the rotor blade connection of the hub so that nuts can be screwed on to the screw bolts. The object of the invention is attained by a blade mounting method having the features of claim 1. Advantageous developments are set forth in the appendant claims. A method of mounting or dismantling a rotor blade of a wind power installation without using a crane to a rotor blade connection on a hub of a rotor of the wind power installation, wherein at least one cable is stretched between a part in the hub region of the wind power installation and the bottom region of the wind power installation and the rotor blade is moved along the cable upwardly upon mounting or downwardly upon dismantling.

The chassis of a mobile crane, which supports a revolving superstructure having a jib and a counter-jib, is detachably connected to lateral crawlers. To create a favourable stabilisation area for the crawler-mounted crane, cantilevering stabilisers are attachable to the outsides of the crawlers.

A mobile crane with a carrier and a superstructure which is slewably arranged thereon has a superlift device with an SL counterweight for increasing lifting capacity. The SL counterweight can be lifted from the ground in order to execute slewing movements of the superstructure and its slewing radius is changeable. The crane has an electronic control device with a computing device and with a display. In order to avoid costly conversion work on the SL counterweight and to increase operating safety, a program is stored in the electronic control device, which program determines a permissible operating field for crane parameters from the parameters comprising load size and load radius, size of SL counterweight and SL counterweight radius while taking into account the stability criteria and capacity criteria of the mobile crane and displays this operating field graphically on the display. Within this operating field, these parameters may be safely changed, the rest of the parameters remaining constant, and the lifting of the SL counterweight from the ground can be ensured.

The invention proposes a hoisting-cable drive for a mobile crane, which hoisting-cable drive uses a single bottom-hook block (15) instead of a known double bottom-hook block. However, to prevent this single bottom-hook block (15) from tilting in the two cable lines (9, 10), for example due to possible variations in the elongation of the two cable drives, the hoisting-cable drive according to the invention comprises a kinematic force equilibrium device (17, 21), which can equalize such differences. To this effect, another embodiment of the hoisting-cable drive according to the invention uses a hoisting-cable load pickup (21) within each cable line arrangement so that the rotary speed of the winches (7, 8) can be varied, taking into account any load differences in the individual hoisting-cable lines (9, 10). Furthermore, the invention also proposes that the rotary speed of the winches (7, 8) be adjusted, taking into account the geometric winch states and crane states.

The invention relates to a [crane], particularly crawler crane or mobile crane, with at least one monitoring and simulation means, by means of which a state of the crane can be monitored and/or simulated, wherein the monitoring and simulation means comprise at least one input means and at least one output means, and wherein, by means of the monitoring and simulation means, the change in state, particularly the bearing load curve of the crane, and particularly also the movement of the crane and/or of the boom of the crane, can be represented at any time, and/or a possible state and/or a possible change in state of the crane, particularly the bearing load curve of the crane, can be simulated and/or represented.

A self-contained and ready-to-use work platform attachment for mobile cranes, which transforms them into a state-of-the-art aerial boom lift with powered platform leveling and powered rotation up to 180-degrees. It can be supplied by the crane manufacturer with a new crane, or as an after-market attachment add-on, and may be easily pinned to the swing-jib mounting system on the outermost boom tip sheave head present on most mobile cranes without adaptive components or crane modification. In contrast, current work platforms and baskets only have gravity-leveling in association with 180-degrees of unrestricted platform rotation range, and current aerial lift boom trucks, which can function as crane booms, are not designed for add-on or after-market self-contained pin-on work platforms, instead having an integrally-designed platform with rotation and leveling powered from a base unit via hose and cable reels or carries, which are not required with the self-contained and ready-to-use work platform attachment.

This invention relates to a lattice piece for a large mobile crane, comprising four corner posts and null bars and diagonal bars connecting the same. In accordance with the invention, the lattice piece each is divided in two such that one part of the null and diagonal bars each is foldably hinged at two corner posts connected with each other. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for erecting such lattice piece.

The invention discloses an overturning-preventing torque limiter system which is used for a movable crane and comprises a detection unit, a controller unit and a display unit, wherein the detection unit comprises a length sensor for detecting the length of a jib loading boom, an angle sensor for detecting the working angle of the jib loading boom, and a pressure sensor for detecting the hoisting weight; and the detection unit further comprises an anemobiagraph, a rotary speed sensor, a gradienter and a lifting speed sensor. According to the torque limiter system, a working state of the movable crane can be accurately reflected, torque generated by a hoisting weight, wind force, inertia force and centrifugal force in a working process is calculated, further amplitude angle, speed and acceleration, rotary speed, weight lifting speed and acceleration of the crane can be controlled, thus overturning accident caused by dynamic instability of the movable crane is prevented. The invention also discloses a mobile crane provided with the overturning-preventing torque limiter system.

The invention relates to a method of servicing wind turbines having a hub containing a slewing ring bearing to which a rotor blade is fastened such that the pitch angle is adjustable. The rotor blade is brought into a position pointing vertically downward, lowered by means of threaded rods and hoisting means and attached suspendingly to the hub. The slewing ring bearing is then turned. The rotor blade is then hoisted again and fastened to the slewing ring bearing.

The invention discloses a support leg pressure detecting and controlling device comprising a detection part, a controller and an execution part, wherein the detection part is arranged on a support leg and is used for detecting the pressure of the support leg and transmitting a pressure signal; the controller is used for receiving the pressure signal and transmitting a control signal according to the pressure signal; and the execution part is used for controlling a crane to work or stop. According to the support leg pressure detecting and controlling device, the stress of each support leg of the crane during work can be detected and whether the work condition of the each support leg of the crane is safe or not is analyzed according to the stress; when the stressed condition of the support leg is abnormal, the controller transmits the control signal and relevant valves are closed or switches are turned off by the execution part according to the control signal, so that the crane stops working. Therefore, the work safety of a mobile crane is greatly improved and the mobile crane is more reliable. The invention also provides the mobile crane with the support leg pressure detecting and controlling device.

A powered rotating and articulating self-contained jib boom of both swing jib and non-swing jib design that attaches to mobile cranes and functions as an aerial lift when fitted with an optional work platform. Since it pins onto any existing crane by attachment to a standard swing-jib mounting system using the four pinning holes and pins located on the crane's outer most boom tip sheave head, it achieves powered leveling and rotation of a platform without having to modify or add components to the existing crane. Also, with the crane jib boom hydraulically powered for rotation in the horizontal plane up to 360-degrees and articulation in a 90-degree vertical plane, an attached work platform can be kept level during up/down articulation of the crane boom in its vertical plane. Furthermore, with dielectric insulation, the jib boom, crane boom, and attached work platform are usable on live electrical line work.

The invention provides a lifting appliance and a front handling mobile crane with the same. The lifting appliance comprises an upper rotary table, a lower rotary table, a lateral displacement bracket, a telescopic main beam and a longitudinal inclination drive device, wherein the lower rotary table is pivoted to the upper rotary table, the lateral displacement bracket is connected with the lower rotary table, the telescopic main beam is in sliding connection with the lateral displacement bracket, and the longitudinal inclination drive device is arranged between a boom and the upper rotary table and is used for enabling the spreader to swing in a longitudinal swinging surface located by the boom surrounding a first pin shaft. The lifting appliance is in pivoted connection to the boom of a crane through a first pin shaft. The invention also provides the front handling mobile crane which comprises the lifting appliance.

A large mobile crane includes a revolving superstructure, a main boom hinged to the superstructure, and a derrick boom hinged to the superstructure. A modular counterweight system includes a traveling counterweight and a non-traveling counterweight connected to a crossbeam suspended from the distal end of the derrick boom so that the non-traveling counterweight is activated before the traveling counterweight.

The invention discloses a high-rise wall spraying robot and relates to the technical field of high-rise wall surface spraying. The high-rise wall spraying robot comprises a hoist, an electric cable pay-off and take-up device, a roof moving crane, a panoramic camera, an anemometer, a remote control device, a steel wire rope and a cable line. The roof moving crane is parked on a side close to a wallto be painted. The high-rise wall spraying robot also includes a hot air drying device I, a dust cleaning device I, a spraying device, a control system device, a dust cleaning device II, and a hot air drying device II. The anemometer is also arranged on the mobile crane. The hoist is connected to the spraying device through the steel wire rope. The spraying device is provided with the control system device and the panoramic camera. An upper side of the spraying device is sequentially connected to the dust cleaning device I and the hot air drying device I, and a lower side of the spraying device is sequentially connected to the dust cleaning device II and the hot air drying device II. According to the invention, the automation of the wall surface spraying is realized, the spraying efficiency is improved, the uniformity of the spraying density is ensured, the labor cost is reduced, an artificial high-altitude operation is substituted, and the danger is reduced.