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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2016
Claas E-systems Kgaa Mbh & CO KG, Guetersloh, DE;
Pavel Lisouski, Vanlose, DK;
Kristian Kirk, Koebenhavn, DK;
Gert Lysgaard Andersen, Alleroed, DK;
Morten Rufus Blas, Kongens Lyngby, DK;
Ralf Hartmann, Melle, DE;
Dirk Lahmann, Halle/Westf., DE;
CLAAS E-Systems KGaA mbH & Co. KG, Dissen am Teutoburger Wald, DE;
Abstract
A crop harvesting machine has a machine body and a discharge spout attached to the machine body for overloading crop via a crop stream to a trailer. And electronic spout control and a discharge spout drive arrangement displaces the discharge spout relative to the machine body based on drive commands of the electronic spout control for guiding the crop stream to a target hit point at the trailer. A first sensor arrangement generates sensor information by optically identifying a reference feature at the trailer and detecting the position of the reference feature and/or space orientation of the reference feature. The second sensor arrangement generates sensor information by detecting a space orientation of the machine body, the discharge spout or both. The electronic spout control generates its drive commands for guiding the crop stream based on the sensor information.