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US 12,311,401 B2Granted
Aerial boom with through-fan spray
AssigneeAGCO Corporation
InventorMark Aron Crowley
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a boom for a sprayer vehicle, comprising: a fluid-carrying medium; one or more first nozzles fluidly coupled to the fluid-carrying medium; and plural unmanned aerial vehicles tethered together, the plural unmanned aerial vehicles each comprising plural fans, wherein the one or more first nozzles are arranged to discharge material through one or more fans of the plural fans.
Claims13
A method of applying a liquid material to an agricultural field, the method comprising:
- energizing a plurality of fans of at least one unmanned aerial vehicle to cause the at
- least one unmanned aerial vehicle to become airborne, the unmanned aerial
- vehicle tethered to a fluid-carrying medium carried by a sprayer vehicle;
- transferring the liquid material from the sprayer vehicle through the fluid-carrying medium to at least one nozzle carried by the at least one unmanned aerial vehicle;
- and discharging the liquid material from the at least one nozzle through at least one fan of the plurality of fans while the at least one fan is energized.
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