Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Row unit with integrated pressure source
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Application No.: US14679388Application Date: 2015-04-06
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Publication No.: US09763380B2Publication Date: 2017-09-19
- Inventor: Dustan Hahn , Matthew J. Wilhelmi
- Applicant: KINZE MANUFACTURING, INC.
- Applicant Address: US IA Williamsburg
- Assignee: Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Kinze Manufacturing, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US IA Williamsburg
- Agency: McKee, Voorhees & Sease, PLC
- Main IPC: A01C7/04
- IPC: A01C7/04 ; A01C7/20

Abstract:
An agricultural planter includes a plurality of row units attached to a toolbar. The row units include seed meters in seed meter housings for receiving, singulating, and dispensing seed or other particulate. The seed meters include a circular seed disc with a seed path for receiving the seed in the seed meter housing. Integrated with the seed meter, such as at the housing, is an electric pressure source dedicated for providing a pressure differential for the seed meter or meters at a particular location on the planter. The pressure source can be positive or negative to temporarily adhere seed to the seed disc of the meter. A single pressure source can provide the pressure differential to a single meter or to multiple meters or discs at a row unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150282422A1 ROW UNIT WITH INTEGRATED PRESSURE SOURCE Public/Granted day:2015-10-08
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