Deere + Company

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Eric R Funk

Matt D Bartelson

Gregory Keith Harmelink

David James Rylander

Grant J Wonderlich

Randall A Maro

Tho Vankhanh Nguyen

Robert Alan Henson

Michael Todd Schmidt

Patrick Wilson Cross

Chad C Steen

Krishna P Pande

Matthew Lommen

Rajesaheb Bagwan

Pranay Bajjuri

Matthew L Spencer

Quintin D Rigert

Guobao Zheng

Ali I Bawangaonwala

Lee Phelps

Sunil M Nagabhushana

Joshua G Payne

Pranay K Bajjuri

A flexible mower deck includes a center deck with a plurality of belt driven pulleys for rotating a plurality of rotary cutting blades under the center deck. A wing deck is pivotably attached to each of the first and second ends. A motor on each wing deck rotates a rotary cutting blade by actuating a switch in an operator station to pivot each wing deck to a mowing position.

Flexible mower deck

An interconnection device for providing an electrical connection between a motor and an inverter is disclosed. The interconnection device comprises a base member having a first receiving aperture arranged relative to a second receiving aperture, and a mounting interface that provides for direct coupling of the base member to the motor. A substrate is coupled to the base member and comprises a first connector assembly, a second connector assembly, and integrated electronic circuitry arranged thereon. The first connector assembly is coaxially aligned with the first receiving aperture of the base member and arranged to receive a plurality of motor pin connections. The second connector assembly comprises a plurality of connection elements arranged to transmit and receive power and signal connections for powering and controlling the motor.

Interconnection device

A hydraulic motor assembly includes a flow controller, a displacement controller and a hydraulic motor. The flow controller controls the flow of hydraulic fluid through the hydraulic motor and the displacement controller controls motor displacement. The hydraulic motor converts the pressure and flow into angular displacement of a drive shaft. An electrical generator is connected to the motor drive shaft and provides electrical power to accommodate a varying electrical load. As the electrical load varies, the flow controller and displacement controller vary the flow and displacement of the hydraulic motor to vary the torque applied to the generator by the drive shaft so that the drive shaft rotates at a desired speed.

Agricultural machine with a hydraulically driven generator

A barrier device for an electrical connector is disclosed. In embodiments, the barrier device can comprise a first barrier element interposedly arranged between a substrate and a base assembly of the electrical connector. A second barrier element arranged for mating engagement with an upper surface of the substrate of the electrical connector; the second barrier element comprising a plurality of openings defined by a plurality of protruding structures that are configured and arranged to accommodate electronic components mounted to the upper surface of the substrate. The barrier device is designed such that the collective arrangement and positioning of the first barrier element and the second barrier element relative to substrate forms a thermal protection barrier and damping mechanism around the substrate.

Barrier device for an electrical connector

A towed agricultural machine includes a converter, configured to convert a first voltage potential generated by a generator to a second voltage potential. The second voltage potential powers a component of the towed agricultural machine. Further, the towed agricultural machine also includes a switch that senses the absence of the second voltage potential from the converter and switches to powering the subcomponent with a second voltage potential received from a source external to the towed agricultural machine. The second voltage potential output by the converter can also be combined, on a power bus, with the second voltage potential from the external source or another source.

Power capacity expansion on agricultural machine

An electric implement power management system includes an electronic controller that monitors total electric implement load and commands a transmission to reduce the speed of the traction drive wheels below the desired traction drive speed if the total electric implement load reaches a maximum allowable load.

Electric implement power management system

The complete outdoor radio unit for LMDS is a light weight, compact transceiver featuring planar circuitry. The transceiver uses cross polarization through an orthomodal transducer and frequency offset between transmit and receive to provide isolation between the transmitter and receiver. The transceiver includes three printed circuit boards directly attached by thermally conductive epoxy to a heat sink which forms part of the antenna dish/transceiver housing for effective heat transfer. Two of the waveguides are used as receiver and transmitter transmission lines into the orthomodal transducer, and two of the waveguides are used as bandpass filters. The transceiver also includes a DC&mdash;DC converter in the power supply which is modified to connect the base plate to the heat sink for compactness and improved heat transfer, and a frequency synthesizer with a phase locked loop hardwired to a single reference frequency for compact size.

Complete outdoor radio unit for LMDS

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Apex, NC, United States of America

Eric R Funk