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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2019
Applicant:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Inventors:
Zachary T. Bonefas, Grimes, IA (US);
Niels Dybro, Sherrard, IL (US);
Assignee:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 41/127 (2006.01); A01D 43/08 (2006.01); A01D 43/10 (2006.01); A01D 82/00 (2006.01); A01D 45/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D 41/127 (2013.01); A01D 43/085 (2013.01); A01D 43/102 (2013.01); A01D 45/02 (2013.01); A01D 82/00 (2013.01); A01D 41/1277 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image capture device captures an image of crop after it has been processed by a kernel processing unit on a forage harvester. A size distribution indicative of the distribution of kernel fragment sizes in the harvested crop is identified from the image captured by the image capture device. A control system generates control signals to control a speed differential in the speed of rotation of kernel processing rollers based on the size distribution. Control signals can also be generated to control a size of a gap between the kernel processing rollers.