Systems and methods for changing a speed of a belt drive system
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsPaul D. Marvin, Logan K. Trueblood
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for automatically controlling a speed of an agricultural header operably connected to an agricultural machine may include determining whether a current gear setting of a transmission configured to drive the agricultural header is appropriate for an operating condition of the agricultural header; determining a load condition on the agricultural header; determining whether the load condition is an acceptable load condition; and changing a gear setting of the transmission based on the current gear setting being outside of an appropriate operating range and based on the load condition being the acceptable load condition.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for automatically controlling a speed of an agricultural header operably connected to an agricultural machine, the method comprising:
- determining whether a current gear setting of a transmission configured to drive the agricultural header is appropriate for an operating condition of the agricultural header;
- determining a load condition on the agricultural header;
- determining whether the load condition is an acceptable load condition;
- and
- changing a gear setting of the transmission based on the current gear setting being outside of an appropriate operating range and based on the load condition being the acceptable load condition.
A computer-implemented apparatus for automatically controlling a speed of an agricultural header operably connected to an agricultural machine, the apparatus comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the one or more processors and storing programming instructions for execution by the one or more processors, the programming instructions instruct the one or more processors to:
- determine whether a current gear setting of a transmission configured to drive the agricultural header is appropriate for an operating condition of the agricultural header;
- determine a load condition on the agricultural header;
- determine whether the load condition is an acceptable load condition;
- and
- change a gear setting of the transmission based on the current gear setting being outside of an appropriate operating range and based on the load condition being the acceptable load condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.