Automatic control of windrower swathboard
AssigneeAGCO Corporation
InventorsDouglas R. Treffer, Brendon C. Nafziger, Dane Austin Mosel, Mark M. Glade
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a swathboard control system, comprising: a header comprising fore and aft a cutting assembly and a conditioning system; a forming shield assembly; a swathboard located between the conditioning system and the forming shield assembly, the swathboard pivotably adjustable about a transverse axis; a position sensor configured to sense a position of the swathboard; and a computing system operably coupled to the position sensor, the computing system configured to provide an indication of the position of the swathboard based on feedback from the position sensor.
Claims20
A swathboard control system, comprising:
- a header comprising a cutting assembly and a conditioning system aft of the cutting assembly;
- a forming shield assembly;
- a swathboard located between the conditioning system and the forming shield assembly, the swathboard pivotably adjustable about a transverse axis;
- a position sensor configured to sense a position of the swathboard;
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- a computing system operably coupled to the position sensor, the computing system configured to provide an indication of the position of the swathboard based on feedback from the position sensor.
A method implemented in a harvesting machine comprising a header, a swathboard, and a forming shield assembly, the method comprising:
- sensing a position of the swathboard with a position sensor;
- and
- providing an indication of the position of the swathboard based on feedback from the position sensor.
A non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions that cause at least one processor to:
- receive a sensed position of a swathboard for a harvesting machine;
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- provide an indication of the position of the swathboard based on the received sensed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.