Back to results
US 9,699,967 B2Granted
Crosswind compensation for residue processing
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsBhanu Kiran Reddy Palla, John M. Hageman
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A wind speed sensor includes a shroud that is elongate along a longitudinal axis that is generally transverse to a direction of travel of a mobile machine to which it is mounted. The wind speed sensor senses a magnitude of a crosswind component. An action signal is generated based upon the crosswind component sensed by the wind speed sensor. The action signal can be used to control a direction of residue discharge from the mobile machine.
Claims20
A mobile machine, comprising:
- a material processing system that engages material to be processed as the mobile machine travels in a direction of travel;
- a wind sensor, connected to a structural frame of the mobile machine that generates a wind sensor signal indicative of a wind speed and wind direction of air flow impinging on the wind sensor;
- an elongate shroud, having a longitudinal axis fixedly oriented generally transverse to the direction of travel of the mobile machine, disposed about the wind sensor;
- and
- an action signal generator, configured to receive the wind sensor signal and generate an action signal, based on the wind sensor signal.
2 more elements
A mobile machine, comprising:
- a structural frame;
- a material processing system that engages material to be processed as the mobile machine travels in a direction of travel, processes the material, and generates residue;
- a residue discharge system that discharges the residue from the mobile machine;
- a wind sensor connected to the structural frame that generates a wind sensor signal, indicative of a wind speed and wind direction of air flow impinging on the wind sensor;
- an additional sensor that generates an additional sensor signal indicative of a variable that affects a direction in which the residue is discharged from the mobile machine;
- an action signal generator, configured to receive the wind sensor signal and the additional sensor signal and generate an action signal, based on the wind sensor signal and the additional sensor signal;
- and
- a direction control system that controls a direction in which the residue discharge system discharges the residue from the mobile machine, based on the action signal.
5 more elements
A method of controlling an agricultural mobile machine, comprising:
- detecting a wind speed and wind direction of a cross wind component of air flow, moving in a direction generally transverse to a direction of travel of the agricultural mobile machine;
- generating a wind sensor signal, indicative of the detected wind speed and wind direction of the cross wind component of air flow;
- detecting an additional variable that affects a direction in which residue is discharged from the mobile machine;
- generating an additional sensor signal indicative of the additional variable;
- generating an action signal, based on the wind sensor signal and the additional sensor signal;
- and
- controlling a direction in which residue is discharged from the mobile machine, based on the action signal.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.