# US 2025/0366388 A1 · Map based seed vacuum control

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- Number: US 2025/0366388 A1
- Document ID: US20250366388A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 19/302,779
- Filed: 2025-08-18
- Published: 2025-12-04
- Earliest claimed: 2014-07-10
- Assignees: Deere & Company
- Applicants: Deere & Company
- Inventors: David J. Rylander
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250366388A1

## CPC

- A01C 7/10: Devices for adjusting the seed-box {; Regulation of machines for depositing quantities at intervals}
- A01B 79/005: {Precision agriculture}
- A01C 7/0443: {Seed singulators}
- A01C 7/20: Parts of seeders for conducting and depositing seed
- A01C 21/005: {Following a specific plan, e.g. pattern}
- A01C 7/046: {with perforated seeding discs}
- A01C: PLANTING; SOWING; FERTILISING (parts, details or accessories of agricultural machines or implements, in general A01B51/00 - A01B75/00)
- A01B: SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL (making or covering furrows or holes for sowing, planting or manuring A01C5/00; mowers convertible to soil working apparatus or capable of soil working A01D42/04; mowers combined with soil working implements A01D43/12; soil working for engineering purposes E01, E02, E21)

## Abstract

A method including adjusting a changeable component of a seed planting machine when switching from a first variety of seed to a second variety of seed during planting, wherein the adjusting is based on a location of the planting machine.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method comprising:
adjusting a changeable component of a seed planting machine when switching from a first variety of seed to a second variety of seed during planting, wherein the adjusting is based on a location of the planting machine.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the component comprises a double eliminator configured to prevent multiple seeds from being planted at a particular location.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the seed planting machine comprises a vacuum seed meter, and wherein adjusting the changeable component comprises adjusting a vacuum level applied to the vacuum seed meter.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein the seed planting machine comprises a double eliminator and a vacuum seed meter, and wherein adjusting comprises:
changing the double eliminator to prevent multiple seeds from being planted at a particular location; and
adjusting a vacuum level applied to the vacuum seed meter.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1, wherein adjusting configures the seed planting machine to maximize performance of planting of the one of the first variety of seed and the second variety of seed.

### Claim 6

A multiple variety planter comprising:
a planting machine comprising an adjustable component, the adjustable component being adjustable between a first configuration and a second configuration, the first configuration set to maximize planting efficiency of a first variety of seed relative to other varieties of seeds, the second configuration set to maximize planting efficiency of a second variety of seed relative to other varieties of seeds; and
a controller in communication with the planting machine, the controller configured to automatically adjust the adjustable component between the first configuration and the second configuration based on a particular location of the planting machine in a field of land comprising a plurality of different locations that include the particular location.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The multiple variety planter of claim 6, wherein the adjustable component comprises a double eliminator to prevent multiple seeds from being planted in the particular location.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The multiple variety planter of claim 7, wherein the adjustable component comprises a vacuum control system configured to control a vacuum level applied to a vacuum seed meter configured to dispense seeds during a given planting operation.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The multiple variety planter of claim 8, wherein the adjustable component further comprises a double eliminator configured to prevent multiple seeds from being planted in the particular location during a given planting operation, and wherein both the double eliminator and the vacuum control system are configured to be adjusted as part of the adjustable component being adjusted.

### Claim 10 (depends on 6)

The multiple variety planter of claim 6, wherein the planting machine comprises a planter having a plurality of row units.