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US 12,742,647 B2Granted
Communication of fill level to receiving vehicle(s)
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsKellen O'Connor, Jeremy J. Faust
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Abstract
An automatic fill control system on a material loading vehicle generates an output indicative of a current fill level of a receiving vehicle into which the material loading vehicle is loading material. A fill level processing system generates a fill parameter indicative of when the receiving vehicle will reach a target capacity. The fill parameter is communicated to a mobile application on a mobile device in a receiving vehicle.
Claims13
A material loading vehicle, comprising:
- a material conveyance subsystem that conveys material from the material loading vehicle to a first receiving vehicle through a spout;
- a fill sensor that generates a fill level sensor signal indicative of a fill level of material in the first receiving vehicle;
- at least one processor;
- and
- memory storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the material loading vehicle to:
- identify an overall fill level in the first receiving vehicle based on the fill level sensor signal and generate an overall fill level sensor signal indicative of the overall fill level in the first receiving vehicle;
- generate a first receiving vehicle fill location parameter indicative of a location where the first receiving vehicle will reach a given fill level based on the overall fill level sensor signal;
- and
- communicate, to a mobile application running on a mobile device in a second receiving vehicle, the first receiving vehicle fill location parameter indicative of the location where the first receiving vehicle will reach the given fill level.
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A material loading system comprising:
- a material conveyance subsystem configured to convey material from a material loading vehicle to a first receiving vehicle through a spout;
- a fill sensor configured to generate a fill level sensor signal indicative of a fill level of material in the first receiving vehicle;
- a fill level detector configured to identify a fill level in the first receiving vehicle based on the fill level sensor signal;
- a fill parameter generator configured to generate a first receiving vehicle fill parameter relative to a given fill level of the first receiving vehicle;
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- a communication system that communicates the first receiving vehicle fill parameter to a mobile application running on a mobile device in a second receiving vehicle in the material loading system, wherein the mobile application is configured to:
- receive a plurality of different fill parameters, wherein each respective fill parameter of the plurality of different fill parameters:
- corresponds to a respective material loading vehicle of a plurality of different material loading vehicles, and
- indicates at least one of:
- a respective fill location where a respective receiving vehicle, being filled by the respective material loading vehicle, will reach a respective given fill level, or
- a respective fill time when the respective receiving vehicle will reach the respective given fill level;
- identify a particular material loading vehicle, of the plurality of different material loading vehicles, based on:
- a location of the second receiving vehicle,
- a respective location of each of the plurality of different material loading vehicles, and
- the plurality of different fill parameters;
- and
- display the respective fill parameter received from the particular material loading vehicle,
- wherein the mobile application is configured to:
- receive the first receiving vehicle fill parameter;
- and
- control a user interface display mechanism to generate a user interface output indicative of the first receiving vehicle fill parameter,
- wherein the first receiving vehicle fill parameter comprises a fill location value indicative of a first fill location where the first receiving vehicle will reach the given fill level, and wherein the mobile application running on the mobile device in the second receiving vehicle is configured to:
- display a location value indicator indicative of the first fill location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.