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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2024
Cnh Industrial Belgium N.v., Zedelgem, BE;
Cnh Industrial Italia S.p.a., Turin, IT;
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Bart M. A. Missotten, Herent, BE;
Luca Ferrari, Modena, IT;
Cory Hunt, Millersville, PA (US);
Geert Mortier, Ghent, BE;
Luca Di Cecilia, Turin, IT;
Fabio Lisurici, Matera, IT;
CNH Industrial Belgium N.V., Zedelgem, BE;
CNH Industrial Italia S.p.A., Turin, IT;
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A crop container monitor for monitoring a fill-state of an open-top crop container during a harvesting operation, the crop container monitor comprising: at least one radiation sensor positionable at an upper end of a wall of the open-top crop container to receive radiation from an interior of the open-top crop container; and a controller configured to: receive a sensing signal from the at least one radiation sensor, wherein the sensing signal is representative of the received radiation; determine a propagation distance from the at least one radiation sensor to a point from which the received radiation was scattered, reflected or emitted, based on the sensing signal; and output the fill-state of the open-top crop container based on the propagation distance.