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US 12,696,834 B2Granted
Measurement of seeder cart tank contents
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsAndrew W. Harmon, Jacob G. Schoeny, William D. Graham, Anant Dnyanoba Nimbalkar, Vikas V. Kshirsagar, Vinit Jawale, Anand Raj, Nilkanth R. Devshetwar
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Abstract
A sensor generates an output signal indicative of an attribute of a limited amount of material above the sensor. A controller receives the output signal and incorporates a corresponding variable into a programmatic calculation of an indication of a volume of material in a tank.
Claims20
An agricultural material application machine comprising:
- a storage component configured to hold a material;
- a sensor disposed in the storage component and configured to detect an attribute of material above the sensor and to generate sensor data indicative of the attribute of material above the sensor;
- and
- a controller configured to determine an amount of material in the storage component based on the sensor data indicative of the attribute of material above the sensor.
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A method of determining an amount of material in a storage component of a material application machine, the method comprising:
- obtaining sensor data from a sensor disposed in the storage component and underneath material in the storage component, the sensor data indicating an attribute of the material above the sensor;
- and
- incorporating a variable, corresponding to the attribute of the material above the sensor, into a programmatic calculation of the amount of material in the storage component.
An agricultural system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing instructions, executable by the one or more processors, that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- obtain sensor data from a sensor disposed in a material storage component of an agricultural material application machine, the sensor data indicating an attribute of material above the sensor;
- determine an amount of material in the material storage component based on the sensor data indicating the attribute of material above the sensor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.