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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Inventors:
Didier O. M. Verhaeghe, Ypres, BE;
Tom Coen, Zemst, BE;
Assignee:
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 15/08 (2006.01); A01F 15/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 15/0825 (2013.01); A01F 15/0841 (2013.01); A01F 15/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A square baler having a baling chamber, a plunger reciprocable at one end of the baling chamber, a pre-compression chamber where charges of crop are amassed and pre-compressed by a rotor prior to transfer into the baling chamber. A transducer is provided for producing an electrical output signal indicative of the load on the rotor and a processing circuit is operative to estimate the rate of crop flow into the pre-compression chamber by analyzing the output signal of the transducer over a complete filling and emptying cycle of the pre-compression chamber.