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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1985
Filed:
May. 19, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kubota, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
5632 / ; 56 102 ; 901-6 ;
Abstract
A fruit harvesting apparatus in which the positions of fruit are searched and detected by a television camera with a variable shooting direction. Both the television camera and a spot light emitting device, such as a laser, are varied in position and direction in accordance with instructions to locate a fruit. A movable fruit picker is then moved to the determined position of the fruit and operated to pick the fruit.