Mobile irrigation system with plastic optical fiber network
AssigneeLindsay Corporation
InventorsMark William Miller, Steve Aikman, Bradford L. Ellison, Sandra Regia Patricia Figueiredo da Silveira
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Abstract
A mobile irrigation system broadly comprising a plurality of irrigation spans each including a mobile tower having a wheel assembly for traversing a field and a motor configured to drive the wheel assembly. The mobile irrigation system also comprises a control system including a plurality of controllers each including a processing element, and a plurality of plastic optical fiber (POF) cables serially communicatively connecting the plurality of controllers to form a local area network LAN on the mobile irrigation system.
Claims16
A mobile irrigation system comprising:
- a plurality of irrigation spans each including a mobile tower having:
- a wheel assembly for traversing a field;
- and
- a motor configured to drive the wheel assembly;
- and
- a control system comprising:
- a plurality of controllers each including a processing element;
- and
- a plurality of plastic optical fiber (POF) cables serially communicatively connecting the plurality of controllers to form a local area network (LAN) on the mobile irrigation system,
- each of the plurality of POF cables including two fibers grouped together in parallel, a set of three electrical conductors grouped and twisted together, a set of two electrical conductors grouped and twisted together, and a non-grouped electrical conductor in parallel with the set of three conductors.
A mobile irrigation system comprising:
- a plurality of irrigation spans each including a mobile tower having:
- a wheel assembly for traversing a field;
- and
- a motor configured to drive the wheel assembly;
- and
- a control system comprising:
- a plurality of controllers each including a processing element;
- and
- a plurality of plastic optical fiber (POF) cables serially communicatively connecting the plurality of controllers to form a local area network (LAN) on the mobile irrigation system,
- each of the plurality of POF cables including two fibers grouped together in parallel, a set of exactly three electrical conductors grouped together, a set of two electrical conductors grouped together in parallel, and a non-grouped electrical conductor in parallel with the set of three electrical conductors.
A mobile irrigation system comprising:
- a plurality of irrigation spans each including a mobile tower having:
- a wheel assembly for traversing a field;
- and
- a motor configured to drive the wheel assembly;
- and
- a control system comprising:
- a plurality of controllers each including a processing element;
- and
- a plurality of plastic optical fiber (POF) cables serially communicatively connecting the plurality of controllers to form a local area network (LAN) on the mobile irrigation system,
- each of the plurality of POF cables including two fibers grouped together in parallel, a set of three electrical conductors grouped together, a set of exactly two electrical conductors grouped together in parallel, and a non-grouped electrical conductor in parallel with the set of three electrical conductors.
A mobile irrigation system comprising:
- a plurality of irrigation spans each including a mobile tower having:
- a wheel assembly for traversing a field;
- and
- a motor configured to drive the wheel assembly;
- and
- a control system comprising:
- a plurality of controllers each including a processing element;
- and
- a plurality of plastic optical fiber (POF) cables serially communicatively connecting the plurality of controllers to form a local area network (LAN) on the mobile irrigation system,
- each of the plurality of POF cables including two fibers grouped together in parallel, a set of three electrical conductors grouped together, a set of two electrical conductors grouped together in parallel, and exactly one non-grouped electrical conductor in parallel with the set of three electrical conductors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.