Vehicle attachment carrier loading guidance
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsNicholas A. Ohrstrom, Nathan R. Vandike, Duane M. Bomleny, Colin D. Engel, Stephen R. Corban
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Abstract
A harvester may include a feeder house, a header mount interface proximate the feeder house; a header removably mounted to the feeder house by the header mount interface, the header having a mount interface for securing the header to a trailer; a sensor to output steering angle signals indicative of a steering angle of the harvester during an approach of the harvester carrying the header towards the trailer, and a controller to output control signals causing the display to overlay a representation of the mount interface on a real-time view of the approach.
Claims20
A harvester comprising:
- a feeder house;
- a header mount interface proximate the feeder house;
- a header removably mounted to the feeder house by the header mount interface, the header including a first width and a trailer mount interface for securing the header to a trailer, wherein the trailer mount interface includes a second width that is less than the first width of the header;
- a sensor to output steering angle signals indicative of a steering angle of the harvester during an approach of the harvester carrying the header towards the trailer;
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- a controller to output control signals based on the steering angle signals to cause a visual representation of a projected path of the trailer mount interface to be overlaid on a real-time view of the approach, the projected path including a width that corresponds to the second width of the trailer mount interface.
A harvester header trailer loading guidance method comprising:
- receiving steering angle signals from a sensor indicating a current steering angle of a harvester including a removable header including a trailer mount interface for interacting with a mount on a trailer, wherein the removable header includes a first width and the trailer mount interface includes a second width that is different than the first width of the removable header;
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- overlaying a visual representation of a projected path of the trailer mount interface on a real-time view of an approach of the header towards the trailer based upon the steering angle signals, wherein a width of the projected path corresponds to the second width of the trailer mount interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.