Agricultural baler, and method of baling
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsStefan Bottinger, Thilo Steckel, Helmut Homburg
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Abstract
In a device and a method, a position-accurate detection of product mass received by a baler is possible, by an electronic control and regulating device in association with determination of a load of a working element of the baler.
Claims24
A baler for receiving, binding and discharging product masses, comprising receiving means for receiving a product mass;
- pressing means for compressing the product mass;
- binding means for binding the compressed product mass;
- discharging means for discharging the compressed and bound product mass;
- sensor means operatively connected with a working element of the baler for detecting, during a formation of a bale, a loading of the working element of the baler;
- a device for detecting an actual geographic position of the baler;
- a weighing device which weighs a finished bound harvesting product bale;
- and electronic means including an electronic device which is connected with said sensor means and with said detecting device for associating position values detected by said detecting device with loading values detected by said sensor means and intermediately storing a loading value of a position, said electronic device being also connected with said weighing device and, based on a weight of the finished bound bale determined by said weighing device and the position loading values detecting a weighed position-accurate value of a received product mass.
A method of baling a product mass, in a baler having means for receiving a product mass, means for compressing the product mass means for binding the product mass to form a product bail, and electronic means, the method comprising the steps of operating the electronic means so that the electronic means during a formation of a product bale determine a loading of a working element, associated positions of the baler, and a weight of a finished bale, and then calculate for respective positions through a computation function, a weighed position-accurate value of the received product mass.
A baler for receiving, binding and discharging product masses, comprising receiving means for receiving a product mass;
- pressing means for compressing the product mass;
- binding means for binding the compressed product mass;
- discharging means for discharging the compressed and bound product mass;
- sensor means operatively connected with a working element of the baler for detecting, during a formation of a bale, a loading of the working element of the baler;
- a device for detecting an actual geographic position of the baler;
- a weighing device which weighs a finished bound harvesting product bale;
- and electronic means including an electronic device which is connected with said sensor means and with said detecting device for associating of position values detected by said detecting device with loading values detected by said sensor means and intermediately storing a loading value of a position, said electronic device being also connected with said weighing device and, based on a weight of the finished bound bale determined by said weighing device and the position loading values detecting a weighed position-accurate value of a received product mass;
- and means for calibrating said weighing means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.