Baler with ramp sensor
AssigneeKverneland Group Ravenna S.R.L.
InventorsValerio CASADEI, Cosimo FRASCELLA
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Abstract
A baler comprises: a frame, including a forming chamber, configured to receive crops and to form a bale; a feeding assembly, configured to collect the crops form the ground and to feed the crops into the forming chamber; a tailgate, movable between a closed position, wherein the forming chamber is closed, and an open position, wherein the forming chamber is open to an external environment for discharging the bale; a control unit; a ramp, configured to lay down the bale on the ground and movable between a raised position and a discharge position, for allowing a release of the bale.
Claims19
A baler, comprising:
- a frame, including a forming chamber, configured to receive crops and to form a bale;
- a feeding assembly, configured to collect the crops form the ground and to feed the crops into the forming chamber;
- a tailgate, movable between a closed position, wherein the forming chamber is closed, and an open position, wherein the forming chamber is open to an external environment for discharging the bale;
- a ramp, configured to lay down the bale on the ground;
- a weighing system, configured to detect weight data representative of a weight of the forming chamber;
- a inclinometer, configured to detect inclination data, representative of an inclination angle of the baler with respect to a horizontal plane;
- a control unit, connected to the weighing system and to the inclinometer, to receive the weight data and the inclination data, and configured to calculate a corrected bale weight responsive to the weight data and to the inclination data, wherein the control unit is configured to store reference tare data in a memory, the reference tare data being representative of a weight of the empty forming chamber, and is programmed to calculate the corrected bale weight in real time, as a function of the stored reference tare data, of the weight data and of the inclination data, wherein the control unit receives the weight data and the inclination data in real time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.