Energy Efficient Lawn Care Vehicle
AssigneeHusqvarna AB
InventorAnders Flygare
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Abstract
A lawn care vehicle including a mobility assembly configured to provide mobility for the lawn care vehicle, and a working assembly configured to perform a working function on a first working path and a second working path on a parcel. The lawn care vehicle further including processing circuitry configured to execute a repositioning path to cause the lawn care vehicle to move from the first working path to the second working path and initiate an energy reduction action for the lawn care vehicle while the lawn care vehicle transits the repositioning path.
Claims20
A lawn care vehicle comprising:
- a mobility assembly configured to provide mobility for the lawn care vehicle;
- a working assembly configured to perform a working function on a first working path and a second working path on a parcel;
- and
- processing circuitry configured to:
- execute a repositioning path to cause the lawn care vehicle to move from the first working path to the second working path;
- and
- initiate an energy reduction action for the lawn care vehicle while the lawn care vehicle transits the repositioning path.
A method of reducing energy expended by a lawn care vehicle while working a parcel, the method comprising:
- causing, via processing circuitry of the lawn care vehicle, the lawn care vehicle to perform a working function on a first working path;
- detecting a repositioning path, via the processing circuitry, to cause the lawn care vehicle to move from the first working path to a second working path;
- initiating, via the processing circuitry, an energy reduction action while the lawn care vehicle transits the repositioning path;
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- causing, via the processing circuitry, the lawn care vehicle to perform a working function on the second working path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.