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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2013
Briggs & Stratton Corporation, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Jason J. Raasch, Cedarburg, WI (US);
Robert Koenen, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Dan Brueck, Brookfield, WI (US);
Briggs & Stratton Corporation, Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Abstract
A snowthrower includes a body, a chute rotatable relative to the body among multiple chute positions, wherein the chute is configured to discharge snow from the snowthrower, a motor for rotating the chute, a chute position detector configured to detect a current chute position, a compass sensor configured to detect a snowthrower bearing, and an electronic control unit configured to, in a compass guidance operating mode, control the motor to move the chute to an appropriate chute position to maintain the chute at a preferred chute bearing in response to a comparison of the snowthrower bearing detected by the compass sensor and the current chute position detected by the chute position detector.