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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2017
Applicant:
Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen Gmbh, Harswinkel, DE;
Inventor:
Gunnar Quincke, Soest, DE;
Assignee:
CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH, Harsewinkel, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 41/127 (2006.01); A01F 12/44 (2006.01); G01H 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 41/1272 (2013.01); A01F 12/446 (2013.01); G01H 17/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A harvester includes a measuring device for detecting a grain number of a crop flow, in which a sensor of the measuring device detects via a measuring signal kernels impacting an impact surface of the measuring device, and a processing unit of the measuring device is arranged to detect and calculate the grain number by using the measuring signal, wherein the rising edges of the measuring signal are recorded and form a measurement for the grain number. Furthermore, the measuring device for detecting a grain number and method for detecting a grain number are also provided.