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US 6,378,276 B1Granted
Baler with a weighing device
AssigneeLely Welger Maschinenfabrik GmbH
InventorsUlrich Dorge, Dieter Wilkens
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Abstract
An agricultural baler including a compression chamber housing, a support axle, springs provided at both sides of the compression chamber housing for supporting the housing on the support axle with a possibility of vertical displacement relative to the support axle, and sensors for determining a distance between the compression chamber housing and the support axle and for generating signals representing in response to sensing the distance a measure of a bale weight.
Claims7
An agricultural baler, comprising a compression chamber housing;
- a support axle;
- springs provided at both sides of the compression chamber housing for supporting the compression chamber housing on the support axle with a possibility of vertical displacement of the compression chamber housing relative to the support axle;
- and sensor means for determining a distance between the compression chamber housing and the support axle and for generating signals representing a measure of a bale weight,
- wherein the sensor means comprises two displacement sensors arranged on the support axle in a spaced relationship to each other and selected from a group consisting of inductive distance sensors with a solenoid plunger, inductive analogue sensors, capacitance analogue sensors, potentiometric displacement sensors, path scanners, cable controlled displacement sensors.
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An agricultural baler, comprising a compression chamber housing;
- a support axle;
- springs provided at both sides of the compression chamber housing for supporting the compression chamber axle on the support axle with a possibility of vertical displacement of the compression chamber axle relative to the support axle;
- sensor means for determining a distance between the compression chamber housing and support axle and for generating signals representing a measure of a bale weight;
- and an evaluation device connected with the sensor means;
- a device for determining an actual geographical position of the baler and connected with a global positioning system, the actual position determining device being connected with the evaluation device for communicating thereto signals indicative of position data corresponding to actual bale weights during formation of a bale;
- and electronic memory means connected with the evaluation device, the evaluation device converting the received data, which indicate allocation of weight values of pick-up goods to respective positions of the baler, into digital yield mapping, with the mapped data being stored in the memory means for at least one of the electronic display and evaluation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.