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US 11,963,471 B2Granted
Stand-on outdoor power equipment for aerating soil
AssigneeBriggs & Stratton Corporation
InventorsKyle Harvey, Thomas Burkard, Peter Lucier, Stephen Longmeyer
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Abstract
A stand-on aerator includes a chassis, an operator platform extending from a rear portion of the chassis, an aerator assembly coupled to the chassis and having a plurality of reciprocating tines configured to extend from and retract into the aerator assembly, and an object detection sensor. At least a portion of the plurality of reciprocating tines are configured to retract in response to the object detection sensor detecting an object in a path of the aerator assembly.
Claims20
A stand-on aerator comprising:
- a chassis;
- an operator platform extending from a rear portion of the chassis;
- and
- an aerator assembly coupled to the chassis, wherein the aerator assembly includes a plurality of reciprocating tines configured to extend from and retract into the aerator assembly;
- and
- an object detection sensor, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of reciprocating tines are configured to retract in response to the object detection sensor detecting an object in a path of the aerator assembly.
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A stand-on aerator comprising:
- a chassis;
- an operator platform extending from a rear portion of the chassis;
- and
- an aerator assembly coupled to the chassis, wherein the aerator assembly includes a plurality of reciprocating tines configured to extend from and retract into the aerator assembly;
- and
- an object detection sensor positioned to detect an object in a path the plurality of reciprocating tines, wherein the plurality of reciprocating tines are configured to retract into the aerator assembly in response to the object detection sensor detecting the object in the path of the plurality of reciprocating tines.
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A stand-on aerator comprising:
- a chassis;
- an operator platform extending from a rear portion of the chassis;
- and
- an aerator assembly coupled to the chassis, wherein the aerator assembly includes a plurality of reciprocating tines configured to extend from and retract into the aerator assembly;
- and
- an object detection sensor, wherein when the object detection sensor detects an object in a path of the aerator assembly, the aerator assembly is configured to retract a first subset of the plurality of reciprocating tines that are in the path of the object.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.