US 10,117,374 B2 · Forage harvester swath sensor

Abstract

A forage harvester including a header for picking up a swath from a ground surface. The header includes a first and a second distance sensor adapted to measure a sensor-to-target distance respectively along a first and second sensor axis. The first distance sensor is mounted at a first lateral end of the header, and the second distance sensor is mounted at a second lateral end of the header. The first and second distance sensors are positioned such that, when the forage harvester is placed on an even ground surface, the first sensor axis crosses the second sensor axis before reaching the even ground surface in front of the harvester.

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Dependent claims

A forage harvester comprising:

a header to pick up a swath from a ground surface, the header comprising a first and a second distance sensor being adapted to measure a sensor-to-target distance respectively along a first and second sensor axis, wherein the first distance sensor is mounted at a first lateral end of the header and wherein the second distance sensor is mounted at a second lateral end of the header, and wherein the first and second distance sensors are positioned such that, when the header is placed on an even ground surface, the first sensor axis and the second sensor axis extend in a diagonal manner and cross in front of the header before reaching the even ground surface.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/029,518Filed 28 Oct 2014

Priority

BE BE2013/072428 Oct 2013

Published

US 2016/0270286 A122 Sep 2016

Granted

6 Nov 2018

Term ends

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Classification7 codes

A01B 69/008
Steering or guiding of agricultural vehicles, e.g. steering of the tractor to keep the plough in the furrow: automatic
A01B 69/003
Steering of agricultural machines or implements; Guiding agricultural machines or implements on a desired track: steering or guiding of machines…
A01B 69/007
Steering of agricultural machines or implements; Guiding agricultural machines or implements on a desired track: steering or guiding of…
A01D 41/1278
Control or measuring arrangements specially adapted for combines: for automatic steering

Forage harvester swath sensor

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Abstract

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