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US 2026/0144189 A1Published application
Sensor mounted relative to residue handling system of agricultural harvester
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsNathan R. Vandike, Martin F. UNTERPAINTNER, Benjamin Peschel, Stephen R. Corban
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Abstract
An agricultural harvester is configured to engage crop material in a field and to process and separate the crop material into harvest material and residue. A sensor is mounted to an agricultural harvester relative to a residue handling system of the agricultural harvester. The sensor is configured to detect a characteristic and to generate a sensor signal indicative of the sensed characteristic.
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An agricultural harvester comprising:
- a header configured to engage crop material in a field, the crop material including harvest material and residue;
- a conveyor configured to move the crop material into the agricultural harvester;
- a crop processing system configured to separate harvest material from residue;
- a residue handling system configured to chop the residue to obtain chopped residue and remove the chopped residue from the agricultural harvester, wherein the residue handling system includes a spreader housing and a spreader mounted to the spreader housing, and wherein the spreader housing includes a floor;
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- a residue sensor mounted to the floor of the spreader housing and configured to sense a characteristic of the residue and to generate a sensor signal indicative of the sensed characteristic of the residue.
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An agricultural harvester comprising:
- a header configured to engage crop material in a field, the crop material including harvest material and residue;
- a conveyor configured to move the crop material into the agricultural harvester;
- a crop processing system configured to separate the harvest material and the residue;
- a residue handling system configured to chop the residue to obtain chopped residue and remove the chopped residue from the agricultural harvester, wherein the residue handling system includes a spreader housing and a spreader mounted to the spreader housing, and wherein the spreader housing includes a floor;
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- a sensor mounted to the floor of the spreader housing and configured to sense a characteristic in an interior of the spreader housing and to generate a sensor signal indicative of the sensed characteristic.
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An agricultural harvester comprising:
- a header configured to engage crop material in a field, the crop material including harvest material and residue;
- a conveyor configured to move the crop material into the agricultural harvester;
- a crop processing system configured to separate the harvest material and the residue;
- a residue handling system configured to chop the residue to obtain chopped residue and remove the chopped residue from the agricultural harvester, wherein the residue handling system includes a spreader housing and a spreader mounted to the spreader housing;
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- a sensor mounted downstream of the spreader, relative to a residue travel path, and configured to sense a characteristic and to generate a sensor signal indicative of the sensed characteristic.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.