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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:
Sep. 10, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 01, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gilbert J Strubbe, Zedelgem, BE;
Assignee:
Ford New Holland, Inc., New Holland, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73579 ; 73659 ; 340684 ; 340606 ; 56102 ; 56DI / ;
Abstract
A grain loss monitor for a harvesting machine is provided with detector mechanism including a sensor plate and a transducer associated with the sensor plate. The detector mechanism is disposed for detecting grain loss through the impact of grain kernals on the sensor plate and the transducer has a resonant frequency in the range of 8 to 25 KHz. The grain loss monitor also includes a circuit operable to process the output signals from the transducer.