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US 10,351,364 B2Granted
Automatic vehicle and conveyor positioning
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsLawrence D. Green, Michael E. Frasier
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Abstract
An equipment control system detects a physical position of a first vehicle, carrying a material to deliver, relative to a second vehicle. A physical position of a conveyor is controlled, relative to an outlet opening defined on the first vehicle and an inlet opening defined on the second vehicle. The material is then illustratively automatically conveyed from the first vehicle to the second vehicle.
Claims20
A control system, comprising:
- a location detector that detects a relative position of a first vehicle, carrying a material to deliver, and a second vehicle, that receives the material, and generates a location signal indicative of the relative position;
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- an equipment control system that receives the location signal and generates a conveyor position control signal to control a physical position of a conveyor relative to an outlet opening defined on the first vehicle and an inlet opening defined on the second vehicle based on the location signal, the equipment control system generating a conveyor operation control signal to control a quantity of the material conveyed from the first vehicle into the second vehicle with the conveyor.
A computer implemented method, comprising:
- detecting a location indicator indicative of a relative position of a first vehicle, carrying a material, and a second vehicle, that receives the material;
- identifying a quantity of the material to treat a field;
- generating a quantity signal based on the identified quantity;
- automatically generating a conveyor position control signal to control a physical position of a conveyor relative to an outlet opening defined on the first vehicle and an inlet opening defined on the second vehicle based on the location indicator;
- and
- generating a loading quantity control signal to control a quantity of the material loaded from the first vehicle into the second vehicle with the conveyor based on the quantity signal.
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A control system, comprising:
- a prescription processing system that receives a prescription indicative of a quantity of a material to treat a field and generates a quantity signal based on the prescription;
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- an equipment control system that receives a location signal indicative of a relative position of a first vehicle, carrying the material, and a second vehicle, that receives the material, and the quantity signal and generates a conveyor position control signal to control a physical position of a conveyor relative to an outlet opening defined on the first vehicle and an inlet opening defined on the second vehicle based on the location signal, the equipment control system generating a load quantity control signal to control a quantity of the material loaded from the first vehicle into the second vehicle with the conveyor based on the quantity signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.