Work vehicle with quality determination device for grass
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsSusumu Morimoto, Mayuko Tonari, Ryuji Hashizume
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Abstract
A work vehicle configured to carry out work travel in a pasture land where harvested pasture grass 1 is present, the work vehicle having a quality determination device 20 configured to determine quality of the pasture grass 1 in the course of the work traveling. The quality determination device 20 includes a cylindrical grass sending tube 21, a grass taking section 22 configured to feed at least a portion of the pasture grass 1 left in the pasture land to an inside of the grass sending tube 21 via a first end of the grass sending tube 21 and a quality determination instrument 9 configured to determine quality of the pasture grass 1 compressed inside the grass sending tube 21.
Claims12
A work vehicle configured to carry out work travel in a pasture land where harvested pasture grass is present, the work vehicle comprising:
- a quality determination device configured to determine quality of pasture grass in a course of the work travel;
- wherein the quality determination device comprises:
- a cylindrical grass sending tube;
- a grass taking section configured to feed at least a portion of the pasture grass left in the pasture land to an inside of the grass sending tube via a first end of the grass sending tube;
- and
- a quality determination instrument configured to determine quality of the pasture grass compressed inside the grass sending tube,
- wherein the grass sending tube comprises an inclined face provided on an inner side thereof, the inclined face being inclined radially inward from the first end of the grass sending tube,
- wherein the grass sending tube has a sectional area that progressively decreases in size over at least a portion thereof between the first end of the grass sending tube and an area where the quality determination instrument is disposed,
- wherein the grass sending tube comprises:
- two side walls;
- a bottom portion;
- and
- a top plate portion, and
- wherein the bottom portion has the inclined face inclined from the first end toward the top plate portion.
A work vehicle comprising:
- a harvesting section for the work vehicle to carry out harvesting travel in a pasture land;
- and
- a quality determination device configured to determine quality of pasture grass while carrying out work travel;
- wherein the quality determination device comprises:
- a cylindrical grass sending tube;
- a grass taking section configured to feed at least a portion of pasture grass harvested by the harvesting section to an inside of the grass sending tube via a first end of the grass sending tube;
- and
- a quality determination instrument configured to determine quality of the portion of the pasture grass compressed inside the grass sending tube,
- wherein the grass sending tube comprises an inclined face provided on an inner side thereof, the inclined face being inclined radially inward from the first end of the grass sending tube,
- wherein the grass sending tube has a sectional area that progressively decreases in size over at least a portion thereof between the first end of the grass sending tube and an area where the quality determination instrument is disposed,
- wherein the grass sending tube comprises:
- two side walls;
- a bottom portion;
- and
- a top plate portion, and
- wherein the bottom portion has the inclined face inclines from the first end toward the top plate portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.