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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2022
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Bart M.A. Missotten, Herent, BE;
Arno Leenknegt, Hooglede, BE;
Dré W.J. Jongmans, Klundert, NL;
Thomas Mahieu, Vleteren, BE;
Bart Lenaerts, Zutendaal, BE;
Yuanyuan Li, Leuven, BE;
Lucas Deruyter, Gits, BE;
Frederik Tallir, Esen, BE;
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A combine harvester includes a crop material sensor arrangement having a crop material sensor configured to monitor crop material downstream of a threshing and separating system of the combine, and having a sensor window through which the crop material sensor monitors the crop material. The sensor window is arranged adjacent to a flow path of the crop material such that crop material flows past the sensor window as it flows along the flow path, and the sensor window is arranged such that an angle is formed between a plane defined by the sensor window and a tangential projection that extends from a component of the combine harvester that influences the flow path immediately upstream of the sensor window. This ensures that the camera window remains sufficiently clean to allow the crop material sensor to monitor crop material through the window.