Deere + Company

Lutz Bischoff

Dirk Weichholdt

Dohn W Pfeiffer

Oliver Klein

Folker Beck

Friedrich Lauer

Eric Loutz

Christina Fries

Fritz K Lauer

Douglas John Bollin

James Joseph Phelan

Klaus Adam Braunhardt

Thomas Herlitzius

Peter Ehinger

Britta Stankewitz

Douglas J Bollin

Tushar Narlawar

Fritz Lauer

A crop loss correction system receives one or more crop loss sensor signals that are indicative of crop lost by a harvesting machine. A correction component receives context information from a set of context sensing components to identify a context of the harvesting machine. The correction component corrects the crop loss sensor signals, based upon the context information, to obtain a corrected loss signal indicative of the sensed crop loss, corrected based on the mobile machine context. The corrected loss signal is output to an output device.

Augmented crop loss sensing

A harvest header for a harvesting machine includes a carrying frame, a mechanism for receiving or cutting harvest material from a field, a control device, a power-operated actuator operably controlled by the control device, and a transverse conveyor screw movably controlled between two or more positions. The position of the transverse conveyor screw is adjustably controlled by the actuator in order to transport the harvest material to a discharge opening. The control device independently controls the actuator based on at least one harvest material property.

Harvest header with adjustable transverse conveyor screw

A combine harvester includes a load-bearing undercarriage movable via a drivable device engaged in the ground, a threshing and separating device attached to the load-bearing undercarriage, and a feeder house attached to the load-bearing undercarriage. The feeder house includes an endless traction mechanism which circulates about a vertically movable lower deflection roller and a drivable upper deflection roller. A harvesting attachment is coupled to the feeder house for receiving or cutting off harvested crops which are lying or standing upright on a field and which are able to be supplied via the feeder house to the threshing and separating device. An actuator is actuated by an external force arranged for adjusting the vertical position of the lower deflection roller and is connected to a control device which is coupled to a sensor for determining a throughput by a transmission of a signal.

Combine harvester including a feeder house with a lower deflection roller

A cutter head for a harvester, with a cutterbar for cutting crop from a field, a reel with reel fingers which is disposed above the cutterbar, and a cross conveyor for transporting the cut crop to a rear discharge opening. The reel includes reel arms that can be driven about a rotating axis, reel finger carriers supported on the reel arms so they can rotate about the lengthwise axes of the arms, with reel fingers mounted thereon, and an externally powered actuator connected to an electronic control unit for adjusting the rotary angle of the reel finger carrier relative to the reel arms.

Cutter head with automatic setting of the reel finger orientation

A particulate matter impact sensor () for sensing impacts of particles () comprises a support layer (); and a sensing media layer () disposed in front of the support layer ().

Particulate matter impact sensor

A vibration sensor unit () is provided with a vibration sensor () and with an electronic signal processing circuit () which derives from the signals of the vibration sensor () information regarding a quantity of lost grain detected by the vibration sensor (). The electronic signal processing circuit () also examines the signals of the vibration sensor () for vibrations that may be signs of potential damage to moving parts.

Vibration sensor unit

An agricultural harvesting machine comprises an exchangeable crop processing element, which is installed in the interior of the harvesting machine and which is available in different variants, an electronic control unit, which is connected with a data bank in which data concerning the crop processing element are stored, and a reading device, which is set up to interact with an identification element placed on the crop processing element and to transmit an output signal to the control device that clearly identifies the crop processing element during or after an incorporation of a crop processing element into the harvesting machine; with the aid of the signal, the control unit updates the data bank.

Agricultural harvesting machine with an exchangeable crop processing element

The automatic adjustment of a combine harvester () includes providing an electronic map with characteristics of the field (304), determining a work parameter of the combine harvester () by using information provided by the electronic map; and adjusting an actuator () of the combine harvester () with the aid of the determined work parameter.

Method for setting the work parameters of a harvester

A method and device for optimizing a parameter of a combine harvester by driving the combine harvester over a field an approximately constant speed or constant throughput; determining and storing data pertaining to at least one sensor value for a parameter of the processing procedure and to the associated position of the combine harvester in a processing unit; transmitting the position data to a manual apparatus provided with a camera and with a position determination device; moving the manual apparatus to the position, and recording an image of the field ground with a camera; processing the image in order to determine a property of the image; determining a calibration value by the processing unit using the sensor value and the property; and displaying and/or automatic setting of an operating value of the combine harvester by the processing unit using current sensor values and the calibration value.

Method and arrangement for optimizing an operating parameter of a combine

A sieve for a combine harvester cleaning device comprises a frame in which a plurality of similar transversely extending plates are mounted for angular adjustment about respective transverse axes defined by axles that are equally spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction. The plates are angled upward and rearward, with adjacent ones of the plates having forward sections of one overlapping rearward sections of the other. The axles include cranks that define adjusting elements which are received for interacting with slots provided in a longitudinally extending adjusting rod that can be adjusted in its position in the longitudinal direction of the sieve, relative to the frame, so as to be able to adjust the angles of the plates around their axles. The slots are shaped and arranged on the adjusting rod in such a way that at least one plate has an angle different from another plate.

Sieve for a combine harvester cleaning device

The invention relates to a monitoring device and to a method for monitoring the function of the components of an agricultural implement, with a vibration sensor for providing signal values containing information on mechanical vibrations generated by moving components of the implement, an operating state detecting device for providing a signal containing information on the operating state of components of the implement, and a calculating device for generating state information on the basis of the state of the components of the implement. The calculating device can be operated to divide the signal values of the vibration sensor on the basis of the corresponding signals of the operating state detecting device into different classes, which correspond to different combinations of the operating states of the components in the detection of the signal values, and to compare the signal values divided into classes or data derived from these signal values with comparison values for generating state information.

Vibration control with operating state measurement

A thresher basket arrangement for a combine with a thresher basket and with a harvested crop processing arrangement located ahead of the inlet to the thresher basket which includes a body with a first group of projections and a second group of projections arranged on the surface of the body, where the body can be pivoted about a pivot axis extending along the inlet side of the thresher basket between a first position in which the projections of the first group interact with the harvested crop and a second position in which a smooth guide surface interacts with the harvested crop. The body is provided with a consistent shape at least in the area of the smooth guide surface and of the projections of the first group and that it is spaced at the same distance from the pivot axis in the area of the smooth guide surface and of the projections of the first group.

Thresher basket arrangement for a combine

An on-board computer system for a work vehicle having an actuator. The computer system comprises an electronic control unit that is connected to and controls the actuator, a display unit and an input unit. The display unit displays operating parameters of the work vehicle. Through the input unit the operator inputs operating parameters of the work vehicle. The control unit transmits control signals to the actuator and can be operated selectively in a first operating mode and in a second operating mode. In the first operating mode the control unit displays a greater number of operating parameters that can be changed by the input unit than in the second operating mode.

On-board computer system having two operating modes

A monitoring device for monitoring the function of an agricultural working machine comprises at least one sensor that is designed for generating a sensed signal containing information on noise caused by at least one movable element of the working machine. A computer receives the sensed signal of the sensor and generates an output signal value based on the sensed signal delivered by the sensor and a comparative value. Defect messages can be generated to alert the operator of a defect condition.

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