Cooling system for a work vehicle
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorCarroll C. Kellum
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Abstract
A cooling system for a work vehicle includes a fan rotating to generate an air flow in a first direction, a map including a field having a field boundary and a headland having a headland boundary, a previous cleaning cycle and a current cleaning cycle, each of the previous cleaning cycle and the current cleaning cycle includes changing the air flow from the first direction to a second direction for a period of time and then changing the air flow from second direction to the first direction, and a controller configured to determine a distance between a current position of the work vehicle and the headland boundary, determine an elapsed time since a completion of the previous cleaning cycle, and initiate the current cleaning cycle based in part on the distance and the elapsed time.
Claims12
A cooling system for a work vehicle, comprising:
- a fan rotating to generate an air flow in a first direction;
- a map including a field having a field boundary and a headland having a headland boundary;
- a previous cleaning cycle and a current cleaning cycle, each of the previous cleaning cycle and the current cleaning cycle includes changing the air flow from the first direction to a second direction for a period of time and then changing the air flow from second direction to the first direction;
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- a controller configured to
- determine a distance between a current position of the work vehicle and the headland boundary,
- determine an elapsed time since a completion of the previous cleaning cycle,
- initiate the current cleaning cycle when the work vehicle is approaching the headland boundary from outside the headland, the distance is less than or equal to a first distance threshold, in which a first portion of the current cleaning cycle occurs outside the headland as the work vehicle begins to slow down and a second portion of the current cleaning cycle occurs within the headland, and the elapsed time is more than or equal to a first time threshold,
- initiate the current cleaning cycle when the work vehicle is in the headland and approaching the headland boundary, the distance is more than or equal to a second distance threshold, in which a first portion of the current cleaning cycle occurs inside the headland as the work vehicle begins to speed up and a second portion of the current cleaning cycle occurs outside the headland, and the elapsed time is more than or equal to the first time threshold, and
- initiate the current cleaning cycle when the elapsed time since the previous cleaning cycle is more than or equal to a second time threshold, which is longer than the first time threshold, regardless of the location of the work vehicle relative to the field boundary.
A work vehicle including a cooling system, comprising:
- a fan rotating to generate an air flow in a first direction;
- a map including a field having a field boundary and a headland having a headland boundary;
- a previous cleaning cycle and a current cleaning cycle, each of the previous cleaning cycle and the current cleaning cycle includes changing the air flow from the first direction to a second direction for a period of time and then changing the air flow from second direction to the first direction;
- and
- a controller configured to
- determine a distance between a current position of the work vehicle and the headland boundary,
- determine an elapsed time since a completion of the previous cleaning cycle,
- initiate the current cleaning cycle when the work vehicle is approaching the headland boundary from outside the headland, the distance is less than or equal to a first distance threshold, in which a first portion of the current cleaning cycle occurs outside the headland as the work vehicle begins to slow down and a second portion of the current cleaning cycle occurs within the headland, and the elapsed time is more than or equal to a first time threshold,
- initiate the current cleaning cycle when the work vehicle is in the headland and approaching the headland boundary, the distance is more than or equal to a second distance threshold, in which a first portion of the current cleaning cycle occurs inside the headland as the work vehicle begins to speed up and a second portion of the current cleaning cycle occurs outside the headland, and the elapsed time is more than or equal to the first time threshold, and
- initiate the current cleaning cycle when the elapsed time since the previous cleaning cycle is more than or equal to a second time threshold, which is longer than the first time threshold, regardless of the location of the work vehicle relative to the field boundary.
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