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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Robert J. Garrett, Conestoga, PA (US);
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A combine () having a feeder housing () for receiving harvesting crop, a separating system () for threshing the harvested crop to produce grain and residue, at least one of a yield monitor or a loss monitor, a crop cleaning system () for separating the grain from the residue, a residue chopper () for chopping the separated residue, an automated chopper pan () positioned h below the residue chopper (), the automated chopper pan () having adjustable perforations, and a controller coupled to the at least one of the yield monitor or the loss monitor. The controller is configured to determine at least one of throughput from the yield monitor or loss from the loss monitor, compare the at least one of throughput or loss to respective throughput thresholds or loss thresholds, and control the automated chopper pan () to adjust the perforations based on the threshold comparison.