Side-shifting rear-mounted mower with load cell sensor
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorJeffrey Fay, II
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Abstract
A system including an agricultural vehicle, a rear-mounted mower coupled to the agricultural vehicle by a rear hitch, a front-mounted mower coupled to the agricultural vehicle by a front hitch, and a control system. The control system is configured to control the rear-mounted mower by obtaining a signal from a sensor positioned on the front hitch coupled to the front-mounted mower. Then assigning a value to the signal, determining if the value exceeds a threshold, transmitting an instruction to adjust the rear-mounted mower laterally, and executing the instruction by adjusting the rear-mounted mower laterally to a lateral position.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- an agricultural vehicle;
- a rear-mounted mower coupled to the agricultural vehicle by a rear hitch;
- a front-mounted mower coupled to the agricultural vehicle by a front hitch;
- and
- a control system configured to control the rear-mounted mower, the control system comprising processing circuitry configured to:
- obtain a signal from a sensor, the sensor positioned on the front hitch coupled to the front-mounted mower, wherein the signal corresponds to a lateral load applied to the front-mounted mower;
- assign a value to the signal;
- determine if the value exceeds a threshold;
- upon determining that the value exceeds the threshold, transmit an instruction to adjust the rear-mounted mower laterally;
- and
- execute the instruction by adjusting the rear-mounted mower laterally to a lateral position.
A control system comprising processing circuitry configured to:
- obtain a signal from a sensor, the sensor positioned on a front hitch coupled to a front-mounted mower, wherein the signal corresponds to a lateral load applied to the front-mounted mower;
- assign a value to the signal;
- determine if the value exceeds a threshold;
- upon determining that the value exceeds the threshold, transmit an instruction to adjust a rear-mounted mower laterally;
- and
- execute the instruction by adjusting the rear-mounted mower laterally to a lateral position.
A method comprising:
- obtaining, by a processor, a signal from a sensor positioned on a front hitch coupled to a front-mounted mower, wherein the signal corresponds to a lateral load applied to the front-mounted mower;
- assigning, by the processor, a value to the signal;
- determining, by the processor, if the value exceeds a threshold;
- upon determining that the value exceeds the threshold, transmitting, by the processor, an instruction to adjust a rear-mounted mower laterally;
- and
- executing, by the processor, the instruction by adjusting the rear-mounted mower laterally to a lateral position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.