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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2019
Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen Gmbh, Harsewinkel, DE;
Christoph Heitmann, Warendorf, DE;
Ingo Bönig, Gütersloh, DE;
Carsten Grove, Beelen, DE;
Alexander Kirchbeck, Drensteinfurt, DE;
Bastian Kriebel, Münster, DE;
CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH, Harsewinkel, DE;
Abstract
A self-propelled forage harvester is disclosed. The forage harvester includes a feed device, a chopping device comprising a cutterhead equipped with cutting blades and a shear bar for comminuting harvested material, a drive, and a driver assistance system for controlling at least the chopping device. The driver assistance system includes a memory for saving data and a computing device for processing the data saved in the memory, wherein the chopping device and the driver assistance system in combination form an automatic chopping system in that the computing device continuously determines a compaction of the comminuted harvested material using harvested material parameters during a harvesting process in order to autonomously ascertain and specify a cutting length to be adapted for maintaining nearly constant compactability.