Agricultural Baler
AssigneeAGCO International GmbH
InventorMalte Cornelius Schlichting
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Abstract
A control system for controlling a braking operation performed by one or more controllable components of an agricultural baler on a wrapping material incorporating a plurality of electronic identifiers is disclosed. The control system ensures that a desired braking force for a given wrapping material is applied to the wrapping material during each phase of the binding cycle.
Claims12
A control system for controlling a braking operation performed by one or more operational components of an agricultural baler on a wrapping material incorporating a plurality of electronic identifiers during the different phases of a wrapping cycle, the control system comprising one or more controllers, and being configured to:
- identify the current phase of the wrapping cycle;
- receive data indicative of an electronic identifier and determinative of the amount of wrapping material remaining on a roll of wrapping material;
- determine, in dependence on the amount of wrapping material remaining on the roll of wrapping material, a diameter of the roll of wrapping material and a braking strategy for performing the braking operation during the current phase of the wrapping cycle;
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- generate and output one or more control signals for controlling one or more operational components associated with the baler in dependence on the determined braking strategy.
A method of controlling operation of one or more controllable components of an agricultural baler, comprises:
- identifying the current phase of the wrapping cycle;
- receiving data indicative of an electronic identifier and determinative of the amount of wrapping material remaining on a roll of wrapping material;
- determining, in dependence on the amount of wrapping material remaining on the roll of wrapping material, a diameter of the roll of wrapping material and a braking strategy for performing the braking operation during the different phases of the wrapping cycle;
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- generating and outputting one or more control signals for controlling one or more operational components associated with the baler in dependence on the determined braking strategy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.