Deere & Company

Technische Universitát Dresden

Kronos, Inc.

Zurn Harvesting Gmbh & Co. Kg

Miunske Gmbh

Thomas Herlitzius

Nathan R Vandike

Georg A Kormann

James Joseph Phelan

Volker Fuchs

Lutz Bischoff

Sascha Otto

Klaus Adam Braunhardt

Andrzej Kozicki

Wentao W Yu

Matthias Grimsel

Stephan Kirstein

Sebastian Müller

Christian Korn

Jörg Bernhardt

Marco Jung

Rolf Zürn

Hans W Schaeffer

Jens Teichmann

Andi Günther

André Grosa

Folker Beck

Matthias Marsel

Uwe Schuffenhauer

Steffen Wöbcke

Norbert Michalke

Peter Mitlöhner

Tim Bögel

Martin Gössel

Matthias Müller

A sensor assembly for attachment underneath a screen of a combine harvester is provided with a plurality of sensor units having sensor elements, a plurality of which sensor units are arranged one behind the other within a hollow profile which extends in the longitudinal direction of the screen.

Sensor assembly for a combine harvester screen

A system for presenting a crop sample to a crop property sensor is in particular suited for a harvesting machine and comprises a bypass line branching off from a crop feeding assembly, a conveyor for feeding the branched-off crop through the bypass line without damaging the crop, and a crop property sensor for sensing one or more properties of the crop in the bypass line. The bypass line is upwardly angled or extends vertical, such that the conveyor elevates the material from the crop guiding channel to the crop property sensor.

Crop sample presentation system

Ideal function curves are generated for a combine in various operating conditions having acceptable loss rates. These ideal function curves are stored in an onboard computer and compared with actual measured function curves. The actual function curves are derived from sensors measuring grain distribution per linear length of grain falling through the sieve. The computer compares the actual function curve with the ideal function curve for transmitting an adjustment signal to the appropriate controller to drive the actual function curve towards the ideal function curve. Loss sensors are not required because acceptable losses for various conditions are built into the ideal function curves.

Process for automatically controlling a crop processing unit

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Mannheim, Germany

Thomas Herlitzius