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US 10,295,703 B2Granted
Yield estimation
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsNiels Dybro, Noel W. Anderson, Aaron J. Bruns, James J. Phelan
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Abstract
An apparatus may include a harvester head having a crop harvesting width, different components across the harvesting width to interact with plants being harvested, at least one sensor to sense a power characteristic associated with each of the different components and a processing unit to output a crop quantity distribution signal based upon differences in the power characteristic associated with the different components across the harvesting width.
Claims18
An apparatus comprising:
- a harvester head having a crop harvesting width;
- different components across the harvesting width to interact with plants being harvested;
- at least one sensor to sense a power characteristic associated with each of the different components;
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- a processing unit to output a crop quantity distribution signal based upon differences in the power characteristic associated with the different components across the harvesting width.
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