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Esm Ennepetaler Schneid- Und Mähtechnik Gmbh & Co. Kg

Esm Ennepetaler Schneid—und Mähtechnik Gmbh & Co.

Bart M A Missotten

Frederik Tallir

Dré W J Jongmans

Thomas Mahieu

Karel M C Viaene

Pieter Van Overschelde

Glenn Aesaert

Frank R G Duquesne

Didier O M Verhaeghe

John Henry Posselius

Willem Vandamme

Sam Reubens

Michael Carpentier

Cory Douglas Hunt

Bart Lenaerts

Christopher Alan Foster

Robrecht M K Dumarey

Olivier Arnel Vanhercke

Tom N N Somers

Jonathan Eugene Ricketts

Riccardo Morselli

Jethro Martin

Tom Coen

Bernard E D Depestel

Guoping Wang

Bart Moutton

Kevin Michael Smith

Herbert Max Farley

Eric Lee Walker

Benjamin David Kemmerer

Didier Verhaeghe

Clayton E Banks

William Mark McCully

Douglas S Fitzkee

Joachim Boydens

Pieter Vanysacker

Luc Yde

Blaine Robert Noll

David M Dechristopher

Denver Romayne Yoder

Eric Emerson Veikle

Pieter Vandevelde

Jay David Schroeder

Dirk Johan Desnijder

Justin R Ringwald

Ricardo Mesquita

Bart Vroman

Johnny M F Scherrens

Johan A Van Der Haegen

Tom De Smet

Matthias Baert

Michiel Desmyter

Kenneth De Ceunynck

Bert Juul Frans Paquet

Lucas Deruyter

Marc E Ramon

Niklaas G C Monteyne

Wolfgang Oehler

Dré Waltherus Joachim Jongmans

Koen Maertens

Jasper Vanlerberghe

Dries M J Depreitere

Geert Bonne

Rik Vandendriessche

Jeroen Lowie

Bruno De Cooman

Carmen S Wallays

Koen O G Maertens

Herb Farley

Yvan C C Vandergucht

Todd Cannegieter

Ward M R Byttebier

Jan Van Groenigen

Jolan Heyns

Bart G L Van Hullebusch

Stijn Borry

Arno Leenknegt

Michiel Vanderstichele

Guy H J Osselaere

Michael Conrad

Tom Desmet

Karel C F Pauwels

Alexander Nürnberg

Edmund N Holt, Ii

Koen Landuyt

Benoit Debilde

Neseth Cora Kong

Bart De Ketelaere

Yuanyuan Li

Brecht Vanmullem

Yannic Vande Ryse

Laurens Nortier

Thierry E Devriese

Vincent B P Theunynck

Sahand Hajshekoleslami

Bart Busschaert

Joris De Witte

Ward Bonte

Karlien D'huys

Koen Landschoot

A controller for controlling a chopper arrangement of an agricultural harvester. The controller receives sensor data indicative of an intensity of chopping performed on crop material by the chopper arrangement, and sensor data indicative of a power consumption of the chopper arrangement. The controller has a processor to determine an actuator setting for a chopper arrangement actuator of the agricultural harvester in dependence on the received sensor data indicative of the intensity of chopping and the received sensor data indicative of the power consumption. The controller sends an actuator control signal to the chopper arrangement actuator to control the chopper arrangement actuator to operate in accordance with the associated determined actuator setting. The determined actuator setting includes an amount of insertion, and an angle of insertion, of at least one bank of counter knives of the chopper arrangement relative to rotatable knife rows of the chopper arrangement.

Control of a chopper arrangement for an agricultural harvester

A cutting apparatus for a header of an agricultural harvester includes a first wheel and a second wheel. A drive source is configured to selectively drive the first wheel in a clockwise direction or an anticlockwise direction. A knife carrier, including a loop having a running side and a knife-carrying side, is tensioned around the first and second wheels for transmitting torque from the drive source to rotate the wheels and the knife carrier. A plurality of knives cut crop mounted to the knife-carrying surface of the knife carrier. A sensor monitors operation of the knives.

Cutting apparatus

A reel power system for a header of an agricultural system includes an electrical generator having a stator and a rotor rotatably engaged with the stator. The stator is configured to be non-rotatably coupled to a support structure of a reel of the header. The rotor is configured to non-rotatably engage a base of the header. Furthermore, the reel is configured to rotate relative to the base. The electrical generator is configured to generate electrical power in response to rotation of the rotor.

Reel power system

An agricultural system for monitoring throughput of a feeder configured for use with a harvester performing a harvesting operation within a field may include a feeder housing and a feed assembly configured to direct a first flow of harvested materials and a second flow of harvested materials through the feeder. The agricultural system may further include a first sensor configured to generate first data indicative of the first flow of harvested materials through a first lateral section of the feeder. Similarly, the agricultural system may include a second sensor configured to generate second data indicative of the second flow of harvested materials through a second lateral section of the feeder. Additionally, the agricultural system may include a computing system configured to determine whether the harvester is on-row based at least in part on the first data and the second data.

Agricultural system and method for monitoring feeder throughput of a harvester

A system for controlling the aggressiveness of a tailings processor that re-threshes tailings received from the grain cleaning system in an agricultural harvester is provided with at least one imaging device to image a grain sample. At least a portion of the grain sample has at least once passed through the tailings processor. A controller is connected to the imaging device and to an arrangement to automatically adjust the aggressiveness of the tailings processor. The controller is configured to automatically adjust the aggressiveness of the tailings processor using the arrangement, based on based on the level of broken grain and/or unthreshed grain determined from the image from the at least one imaging device by comparing the level of broken grain and/or unthreshed grain to the desired level.

Closed loop control of tailings processor aggressiveness

A cutting system includes knives attached to a continuously moving belt-type carrier. The carrier motion moves the knives past stationary counterknife fingers which are attached to or uniform with a cutterbar, as the cutting system is driven through a field of crop stalks, which are cut by the interaction between the knives and counterknives. One or more sensing devices produce signals or images related to the condition of the knives when the knives are moving past the sensing devices. A processing unit processes the signals or images and derives therefrom one or more parameters representative of the condition of the knives, and compares the parameters to a reference, to thereby monitor the condition. An agricultural implement such as a combine harvester, can be equipped with the cutting system.

Belt-type cutting system comprising knives for cutting crops, including means for monitoring the condition of the knives

A monitoring system for a combine harvester having a header for harvesting a crop and a residue spreading system for spreading a crop residue. The monitoring system includes a sensing system configured to provide one or more measurement waves that intersect a flow of crop residue discharged by the spreading system and receive a plurality of response waves reflected from the crop residue. The system further includes a processing unit configured to receive a response signal of the sensing system; process the response signal; and determine, based on the response signal, a density and velocity distribution of the crop residue across a two-dimensional measurement area. The response signal is representative of the plurality of response waves reflected from the crop residue. The measurement area is at an end of a trajectory of the crop residue towards a deposit area.

Monitoring system for an agricultural harvester and agricultural harvester

In a combine harvester, the header is lifted up by the feeder and secured thereto by a mechanism including a pair of securing pins on the feeder's carrier structure. The securing pins are provided with stops protruding towards the header and which include a sloped surface, configured to interact with positioning aids on the header. The lateral outward or inward movement of the securing pins is driven by a centrally placed actuator. As the actuator is extended, the positioning aids roll or glide down the sloped surfaces, enabling a gradual approach of the header towards the feeder, up to a point where the securing pins become aligned with slots on the header. Continued actuation of the pin motion then establishes the securing of the header to the feeder.

Header securing mechanism for a combine harvester

A header including at least one support and transport wheel assembly having an axle and two wheels. The wheel assembly is coupled to the main body of the header by an actuating system that has two actuator mechanisms. When changing from the field mode to the transport mode, the first actuator mechanism brings the wheel assembly forward from a position behind the header, after the header has been lifted up from the ground. After completion of this first movement, a second actuator mechanism swivels the wheel assembly to a position that is transversal to the header, after which the header is lowered to the ground. The two-step approach enables the changeover between field mode and transport mode without pivoting or otherwise moving the header relative to the feeder. The wheel axle may be pivotably suspended from a frame element that executes the swiveling movement.

Combine header equipped with an automated header transport system

A header that includes at least one support and transport wheel assembly having an axle and two wheels. The wheel assembly is coupled to the main body of the header by an actuating system that includes an actuator mechanism configured to actuate a swivel movement of the axle and the wheels, the swivel movement being configured to bring the wheel assembly to or from a position wherein the axle is transversal to the longitudinal direction of the header. The wheel assembly is equipped with a drawbar that is deployable from a storage position to a deployed position, wherein the movement of the drawbar between the positions is synchronized with the swivel movement of the wheel assembly.

Combine header equipped with an automated header transport system and drawbar

A header including a front and rear wheel assembly, each assembly having an axle and two wheels. Each wheel assembly is coupled to the main body of the header by an actuating system having an actuator mechanism for actuating a swivel movement of the axle and the wheels to bring the wheel assembly to or from a road transport position. The front and rear wheel assemblies are equipped with tie rod arrangements for steering the header when it is transported on the road. The wheels of the wheel assemblies are operated as caster wheels. The tie rod arrangement of the front wheel assembly is coupled to a pivotable base connected to, or connectable to, a drawbar. The wheel assemblies have respective actuators which are synchronized so as to synchronize the position of the front and rear wheels.

Combine header equipped with an automated header transport system and header steering mechanism

A controller for a harvester. The controller is configured to receive crop flow information representative of how crop is flowing through the harvester and generate display information for providing a visual display to an operator of the harvester. The visual display includes an animation of crop flowing through the harvester. The controller is further configured to set one or more properties of the animation of the crop flowing through the harvester based on the received crop flow information.

Controller for a harvester

Method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable media for detecting reel-crop engagement for a header of a harvester. The header includes a reel configured to draw crop from a crop field toward the header as the harvester moves through the crop field and at least one crop detector mounted to the reel. Data is received from the at least one crop detector mounted on the reel, processed, and used to detect reel-crop engagement.

Harvesting head reel-crop engagement

A crop elevator for a combine harvester includes an ascending section and a descending section and a housing enclosing the ascending section and the descending section. The elevator further comprises an elevator loop arranged inside the housing which includes a plurality of paddles for elevating a harvested crop. The elevator also includes a weighing system configured to determine a weight of harvested crop that is present on at least one of the paddles during an ascending movement of the at least one of the paddles in the ascending section. The weighing system includes a weight sensor configured to output a weight signal representative of the weight of the harvested crop. The ascending section of the elevator comprises a measurement section, wherein the weighing system is configured to retrieve the weight signal when the at least one of the paddles is in the measurement section of the elevator.

Crop elevator and combine harvester

In one aspect, a system for filtering signal interference from sensors signals includes a header comprising a frame and a powered component supported relative to the frame, and a sensor configured to detect electromagnetic waves indicative of a parameter associated with the header. In addition, the system includes an electronic control unit operably connected to the sensor such that the electronic control unit is configured to receive signals from the sensor associated with the detection of the electromagnetic waves. The electronic control unit is further configured to filter interference from the signals deriving from motion of the powered component relative to the sensor.

Systems and methods for filtering sensor signal interference deriving from powered components of a header

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