Method for compacting a harvested material
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsStefan Brocke, Norbert Fritz
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Abstract
A method for compacting a harvested material in a silo by an agricultural working machine includes determining via a control unit a density profile which represents a target density of the harvested material as a function of a silo position or a silo portion along a predetermined silo length of the silo, controlling via the control unit compaction work as a function of the density profile, and controlling via the control unit a travel speed of the working machine during the compaction work as a function of the density profile.
Claims18
A method for compacting a harvested material in a silo by an agricultural working machine, comprising:
- determining via a control unit a density profile which represents a target density of the harvested material as a function of a silo position or a silo portion along a predetermined silo length of the silo;
- controlling via the control unit a compaction work by a silo compaction device as a function of the density profile;
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- controlling via the control unit a travel speed of the agricultural working machine during the compaction work as a function of the density profile,
- wherein the control unit determines the density profile as a function of a comparison between an extraction rate and a target rate, wherein the extraction rate is dependent on a feed quantity for animals to be fed in an extraction time period from the silo, and wherein the target rate is determined independently of the feed quantity required for the same extraction time period from the silo.
An agricultural working machine for compacting a harvested material in a silo, comprising:
- a control unit configured to determine a density profile which represents a target density of the harvested material as a function of a silo position or a silo portion along a predetermined silo length of the silo;
- the control unit configured to control a compaction work by a silo compaction device connected to the agricultural working machine as a function of the density profile;
- the control unit configured to control a travel speed of the agricultural working machine during the compaction work as a function of the density profile;
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- the control unit configured to determines the density profile as a function of a comparison between an extraction rate and a target rate, wherein the extraction rate is dependent on a feed quantity for animals to be fed in an extraction time period from the silo, and wherein the target rate is determined independently of the feed quantity required for the same extraction time period from the silo.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.