Deere + Company

Bhanu Kiran Palla

Nathan R Vandike

William D Todd

Noel Wayne Anderson

Ryan Patrick Mackin

Glenn Everett Pope

Aaron J Bruns

Niels Dybro

Gurmukh H Advani

Mark Michael Chaney

Timothy S Hunt

Bradley K Yanke

Cameron R Mott

Anja Eggerl

A harvester may include a crop path along which crops are moved, a working member to interact with weed seeds moving along the crop path and a controller. The controller is to receive data indicating forthcoming weed seeds and is to output control signals controlling the working member based on the data.

Weed seed based harvester working member control

A harvester may include a grain processing unit and a material flow sensor to form an yes electromagnetic plane or field through which crop material passes while being sensed.

Harvester with electromagnetic plane crop material flow sensor

A harvesting head yield monitor comprises two sensing elements () respectively disposed in two adjacent row unit covers (). A driver circuit () drives one of these sensing elements () to produce a high radio frequency signal. The other sensing element () receives the signal. A signal conditioning circuit () receives the signal from the other sensing element. A controller () coupled to the signal conditioning circuit converts the received signal into a signal that indicates the crop yield of the row unit that is disposed underneath the two adjacent row unit covers.

Harvesting head with yield monitor

A method for automatically tuning an agricultural combine (), comprises the steps of: receiving () a signal from an operator of the agricultural combine () indicating that current operation of the agricultural combine () operation is acceptable; determining () current performance parameters of the agricultural combine after the step of receiving; calculating () a performance parameter error limit for each of the current performance parameters in the step of determining; again determining () current performance parameters; comparing () the again determined current performance parameters with the performance parameter error limits to thereby determine whether one or more of the again determined current performance parameters falls outside its associated performance parameter error limit; and if at least one of the again determined current performance parameters falls outside its associated performance parameter error limit, then calculating () changes to machine settings of the agricultural combine () that will bring the at least one of the again determined current performance parameters back within its associated performance parameter error limit.

Automatic tuning of an intelligent combine

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Bhanu Kiran Palla