Method for actuating a tire-pressure regulating system of an agricultural vehicle combination
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorFrank Buhrke
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Abstract
A method for actuating a tire-pressure regulating system of an agricultural vehicle combination includes monitoring a current operating status of an implement by a control unit and receiving data by the control unit indicative of a change in the current operating status of the implement. The method also includes communicating a command by the control unit to a tire-pressure regulating system of the change in the current operating status and controllably adjusting a tire inflation pressure in one or more tires of a tractor or the implement by the tire-pressure regulating system based on the data received by the control unit.
Claims20
A method for actuating a tire-pressure regulating system of an agricultural vehicle combination, comprising:
- providing an agricultural tractor, a towed implement coupled to the tractor, and a control unit;
- monitoring a current operating status of the implement by the control unit, where the implement operates in at least a field operation mode and a road operation mode;
- receiving data by the control unit indicative of a change in the current operating status of the implement;
- communicating a command by the control unit to the tire-pressure regulating system of the change in the current operating status;
- and
- controllably adjusting a tire inflation pressure in one or more tires of the tractor or implement by the tire-pressure regulating system based on the data received by the control unit.
A method for actuating a tire-pressure regulating system of an agricultural vehicle combination, comprising:
- providing an agricultural tractor, an implement coupled to the tractor, a control unit, a sensor, a GPS receiver, and a memory unit;
- evaluating a current operating status of the implement by the control unit;
- detecting a status change of the implement by the sensor;
- communicating the status change to the control unit;
- determining an amount of time to adjust a tire inflation pressure of at least one tire on the tractor or the implement before the current operating status changes to a new operating status;
- and
- adjusting the tire inflation pressure in the at least one tire by the tire-pressure regulating system before the current operating status changes to the new operating status.
An agricultural tractor-implement system, comprising:
- a tractor comprising at least one tire;
- an implement comprising at least one tire;
- a drawbar coupling the implement to the tractor;
- a control system comprising a control unit and a sensor, the sensor configured to detect an operating status of the implement;
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- a tire-pressure regulating system operably coupled to the control unit and the at least one tires of the tractor and implement, the tire-pressure regulating system configured to adjust an inflation pressure of each tire;
- wherein, the control unit receives a signal from the sensor indicative of a change in the operating status of the implement from a first operating status to a second operating status;
- wherein, the control unit operably activates the tire-pressure regulating system to increase or decrease the inflation pressure of each tire before the operating status of the implement reaches the second operating status.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.