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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2017
Applicant:
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Inventor:
John C. Hansen, Denver, PA (US);
Assignee:
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 41/127 (2006.01); A01B 79/00 (2006.01); A01D 91/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 41/127 (2013.01); A01B 79/005 (2013.01); A01D 91/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A combine including an engine for propelling the combine, a feeder housing for receiving cut crop, a separating system for threshing the cut crop to produce grain and residue, a residue chopper for chopping the residue, and a controller. The controller is configured to estimate risk factors that correlate to a risk of fire in the engine due to airborne particles created by at least one of the cut crop, the separating system or the residue chopper, estimate a fire risk based on the risk factors, and implement corrective action based on the estimated fire risk.