Vehicle for discharging crop and corresponding use
AssigneeExel Industries
InventorsBernhard Fuchs, Michael Gallmeier
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Abstract
A vehicle to discharge root crop to define a root crop heap, includes a drive device to drive the vehicle, a crop bunker to contain the crop to be discharged, a discharge device to discharge the root crop from the crop bunker. The vehicle further includes a control device to control the discharge device to create the root crop heap with defined heap parameters, where the heap parameters include one or more of: a defined heap location, a defined heap width, and a defined heap orientation, and the heap is the root crop heap on a ground of a field.
Claims17
A vehicle to discharge root crop to define a root crop heap, the vehicle comprising:
- a drive device to drive the vehicle,
- a crop bunker to contain the crop to be discharged,
- a discharge device to discharge the root crop from the crop bunker, wherein
- the vehicle includes a control device to control the discharge device to create the root crop heap with defined heap parameters,
- the defined heap parameters include one or more of:
- a defined heap location, a defined heap width, and a defined heap orientation,
- the root crop heap is on a ground of a field,
- the control device includes:
- a field memory containing information representing a field in which the root crop heap is to be created,
- the control device includes pick-up location memory including pick-up location information representing a pick-up location to which the root crop of the root crop heap is to be transferred from the root crop heap,
- a heap memory to contain data representing the defined heap parameters, including one or more of the defined heap location, the defined heap width, and the defined heap orientation, and
- a data input device to allow input of the data representing the defined heap parameters into the heap memory,
- the control device controls the discharge device as a function of the data contained in the heap memory for creating the root crop heap,
- the field memory contains harvest line information representing at least one reference line of a harvest device during harvesting the root crop,
- the heap memory includes an offset memory containing offset information of the root crop heap to one of the at least one reference line, and
- the at least one reference line and the offset information define the root crop heap orientation and the root crop heap location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.