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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2014
Applicant:
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01B 69/04 (2006.01); A01B 69/00 (2006.01); A01D 41/127 (2006.01); A01D 89/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01B 69/008 (2013.01); A01B 69/003 (2013.01); A01B 69/007 (2013.01); A01D 41/1278 (2013.01); A01D 89/001 (2013.01);
Abstract
A forage harvester including a header for picking up a swath from a ground surface. The header includes a first and a second distance sensor adapted to measure a sensor-to-target distance respectively along a first and second sensor axis. The first distance sensor is mounted at a first lateral end of the header, and the second distance sensor is mounted at a second lateral end of the header. The first and second distance sensors are positioned such that, when the forage harvester is placed on an even ground surface, the first sensor axis crosses the second sensor axis before reaching the even ground surface in front of the harvester.