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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2019
Applicant:
The Toro Company, Bloomington, MN (US);
Inventors:
Todd A. Otto, Jordan, MN (US);
John R. Kess, Bloomington, MN (US);
Steve A. Swinney, II, Hudson, WI (US);
Assignee:
The Toro Company, Bloomington, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01C 23/00 (2006.01); A01M 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01C 23/00 (2013.01); A01C 23/008 (2013.01); A01M 7/0057 (2013.01);
Abstract
A turf sprayer comprises a transport vehicle that carries a laterally extending spray boom assembly. The spray boom assembly is both laterally displaceable and angularly displaceable relative to the transport vehicle. A controller uses a defined path represented by GPS coordinates to control the operation of various actuators to automatically maintain a reference point on the spray boom assembly on the desired path and to automatically maintain the spray boom assembly perpendicular to the desired path.