Deere + Company

Mandar Mhalsakant Kale

Sandeep Ekhe

William Douglas Graham

Andrew W Harmon

Terrill W Murray

Adam D Sporrer

Robert Thomas Casper

Grant J Wonderlich

Ricky B Theilen

Lucas B Larsen

Derryn William Pikesh

Rahul Gunda

Peter R Nedved

Douglas A Graham

Sean A Mahrt

Saravanan Stallin

Trond A Svidal

Augustine Y Chow

Ashish Paralikar

Manoj Issrani

Rahul S Khairnar

Omkar Joshi

Kapil Patil

Paresh Bharatiya

Nilesh Dhavan

Shoebreza Shaikh

An agricultural train assembly having a tractor and at least one implement coupled to the tractor through a tongue. The assembly has a tractor braking system that selectively applies tractor brakes, an implement braking system that selectively applies implement brakes, a controller that selectively applies the implement braking system, a sensor that communicates with the controller to identify a push force applied to the tongue, the push force being the amount of force applied by the at least one implement towards the tractor. Wherein, the controller communicates with the sensor to identify the push force and compares the push force to a push threshold and when the push force is greater than the push threshold, the controller instructs the implement braking system to apply a burst braking procedure.

Cart stability system

A feed control system for a spreader includes a section configuration module configured to output a section configuration and a section control module configured to receive the section configuration, determine a first actuator position based on the section configuration, and determine a second actuator position based on the section configuration. The feed control system also includes a belt speed module configured to receive the section configuration, receive a commanded belt speed, and determine a target belt speed based on (i) the section configuration and (ii) the commanded belt speed.

System and method for feed control in a spreader

A method for identifying commodity flow through a meter on an agricultural machine. The method includes providing a meter housing coupled to a tank and a first sensor in communication with a controller, coupling the first sensor to a location proximate to the meter housing, identifying, with the controller through the first sensor, when a buildup of commodity is positioned adjacent to the first sensor, and initiating a first response, with the controller, when the buildup of commodity is identified adjacent to the first sensor.

Meter housing apparatus and meter flow detection method

An automatic guidance system is adapted to be mounted on a work vehicle such as a farm tractor for assisting an operator steer the vehicle on a desired track relative to a furrow. The system includes sensors for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic ranging signals. The sensors are ultrasound transducers mountable on ends of a planter drawn by the vehicle for directing ranging signals downwardly toward field adjacent of a furrow such that the ranging signals strike the field or furrow and are reflected back into the respective sensor. Guidance logic stored in a memory of a controller is executed by a processor to determine tractor headway direction and headland turning directions representative of desired tractor headway and headland turning directions, and a human interface device generates guidance images viewable by an operator for steering the tractor relative to furrows in the field and in the headland.

Automatic guidance assist system using ground pattern sensors

A volumetric metering system includes a housing configured to be coupled to a commodity container. The housing has a transducer portion. A roller is removably coupled within the housing and has an encoding tab with at least one circuit. The encoding tab is positioned to allow interaction between the circuit and the transducer portion when the roller is installed in the housing. A controller is operably coupled to the transducer portion and configured to cause the transducer portion to interact with the circuit and identify the roller based on the interaction. The controller is configured to automatically set roller information based on automatic identification of the roller. In one example, the roller is provided with a set of magnets the relative positions of which encode the roller.

Volumetric metering system with improved roller detection

A dispensing machine dispenses a material on a field. A blockage is detected, and an initial blockage location, where the blockage started, is identified. A blockage characterization system identifies characteristics of the blockage, and a control signal generator generates control signals based upon the detected blockage, and the characteristics of the blockage.

Agricultural machine control based on sensed blockage distance

Systems and methods provide automatic assignment of control of a plurality of hydraulic circuits of an associated work vehicle to a plurality of operation systems of an implement. A hydraulic circuit assignment control unit includes a processor, a memory device, logic stored in the memory device, and a communication circuit operatively coupled with the processor. The processor executes the logic to associate an activation of a first hydraulic circuit of the plurality of hydraulic circuits of the associated work vehicle with a physical exercise of an operation system of the plurality of operation systems of the associated implement, and generates pairing assignment data representative of the association of the activated first hydraulic circuit with the physical exercise of the operation system of the implement. The logic generates directionality confirmation and calibration data that is communicated to the plurality of operation systems with the pairing assignment data.

Automatic selective control valve (SVC) configuration detection, and operation assignment, directionality confirmation, and calibration for towable implements towable by work vehicles

A controller communicates with a user interface and sends a first signal to a first actuator to unlock a first lock, sends a second signal to move a first ground-engaging implement into a stowed position, sends a third signal to the first actuator to lock first lock to retain the first ground-engaging implement in the stowed position, sends a fourth signal to inhibit flow through a first hose with a flow blocking element, sends a fifth signal to a second actuator to unlock a second lock, sends a sixth signal to move a second ground-engaging implement into a deployed position, sends a seventh signal to the second actuator to lock the second lock to retain the second ground-engaging implement in the deployed position, and sends an eighth signal to a second flow blocking element to permit flow through a second hose around the flow blocking element.

Automatic rank selection

A towed cart and implement having a brake assembly enabled for independent application of the cart brake assembly without application of the brakes of prime mover in a burst application of the brake assembly for a predetermined duration. A brake control system includes a display which indicates the capacity of the brake assembly for burst application based on a temperature of a brake assembly component. The temperature may be measured or estimated based on duration and timing of burst brake applications.

Cart and implement combination having a brake system

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