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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
May. 06, 2016
Agco Corporation, Hesston, KS (US);
Patrick Kendrick, Hesston, KS (US);
Lawrence Retzlaff, Hesston, KS (US);
Gerald R. Johnson, Hesston, KS (US);
Quentin Guhr, Hillsboro, KS (US);
AGCO Corporation, Duluth, GA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a towed implement proximity system, the system comprising: a first device comprising a transceiver, the first device configured to: transmit a signal; receive a first signal at a first angle and a second signal at a second angle responsive to the transmitted signal, the first and second signals comprising first information and second information, respectively, the first and second information each corresponding to respective positional information; and a controller coupled to the first device, the controller configured to determine a relative position in three axes between a first machine and a second machine based on the first and second information.