A01D 41/1217
Unloading mechanisms
Official title: {Unloading mechanisms}
A01D41/1217 (Unloading mechanisms) appears on 253 US grants and 296 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01D- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 296
- Assignees
- 67
- Inventors
- 453
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Adjustable joint for example for a grain unloading system of a combine harvester29 Sep 2026US 12,745,700 B2AGCO Corporation
- Unload tube swing cylinder mount for agricultural vehicle8 Sep 2026US 12,727,532 B2CNH Industrial America LLC
- Combine harvester with grain cart detection8 Sep 2026US 12,727,533 B2CNH Industrial America LLC
- Scale based unload rate calculation1 Sep 2026US 12,723,908 B2Deere & Company
- System and method of assisted or automated crop transfer25 Aug 2026US 12,714,027 B2AGCO International GmbH
- Multi pass unloading operation3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256056 A1Deere & Company
- Autonomous Agricultural System Including a Cart Management System for Monitoring and Managing an Unloading Operation and Determining Fills Levels of a Trailer and Related Methods27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248073 A1AGCO International GmbH
- Autonomous Agricultural System Including a Cart Management System for Determining a Drive System of a Cart of the Autonomous Agricultural System and Local Path Planner and Related Methods27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252080 A1AGCO International GmbH
- Autonomous Agricultural System Including a Cart Management System for Determining and Controlling States of Unloading Systems of a Cart of the Autonomous Agricultural System and Related Methods27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252081 A1AGCO International GmbH
- Autonomous Agricultural System Including a Cart Management System for Automatically Aligning a Cart of the Autonomous Agricultural System According to a Length and a Position of an Auger of the Cart and Related Methods27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252083 A1AGCO International GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods for improving the robustness of an automated unloading system145US 9,119,342 B2Deere & Company, a Delaware corporation · 2015
- Method and stereo vision system for facilitating the unloading of agricultural material from a vehicle137US 8,868,304 B2Deere & Company · 2014
- Method and stereo vision system for managing the unloading of an agricultural material from a vehicle111US 9,642,305 B2Deere & Company · 2017
- Fill level indicator for an automated unloading system95US 10,019,790 B2Carnegie Mellon University · 2018
- System for coordinating agricultural vehicle control for loading a truck92US 9,529,364 B2CNH Industrial America LLC · 2016