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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Raven Industries, Inc., Sioux Falls, SD (US);
Jared Ernest Kocer, Sioux Falls, SD (US);
Joshua D. Grabow, Sioux Falls, SD (US);
Warren L. Thompson, Baltic, SD (US);
Steve S. Jensen, Sioux Falls, SD (US);
Patrick A. Hansen, Tea, SD (US);
Nicholas O. Michael, Sioux Falls, SD (US);
Scott Porter, Marble Falls, TX (US);
Clarence Walt Fowler, Elgin, TX (US);
David Anthony Fowler, Austin, TX (US);
Raven Industries, Inc., Sioux Falls, SD (US);
Abstract
This document discusses, among other things, apparatus and methods for a multi-section applicator having variable-rate sections. In an example, an apparatus can include at least one distribution manifold, a user interface, and an applicator controller. The at least one distribution manifold distributes a substance and can include an inlet port configured to receive the substance, a plurality of outlet ports, one or more sensors located at an outlet port, a controllable valve that supplies the substance to the inlet port. The applicator controller measures a value of the distribution parameter using the sensor signal produced by the at least one sensor of an outlet port, detects when the measured value differs from a specified target value by more than a specified error threshold value, and presents an indication, using the user interface, that the measured value differs from the target value according to the detection.