公开(公告)号：US20230225247A1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-20

申请号：US18093378

申请日：2023-01-05

Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC

Inventor： Lucas Deruyter ,  Frederik Tallir ,  Geert Bonne ,  Arno Leenknegt ,  Bart M.A. Missotten ,  Dré W.J. Jongmans ,  Jasper Vanlerberghe ,  Pieter Van Overschelde ,  Sam Reubens

IPC: A01D41/127 ,  G06Q50/02

CPC classification number: A01D41/1271 ,  G06Q50/02

Abstract: A residue collector is operable to receive residue from a combine harvester during a training harvesting operation. The residue collector includes a residue separator for separating the processed residue into a first portion and a second portion based on a property of the processed residue; one or more weight sensors for directly or indirectly determining the weight of the first portion and the second portion; and a controller configured to determine a quality factor for the processed residue based on the determined weight of the first portion in relation to the weight of the second portion.

公开(公告)号：US20230139286A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-04

申请号：US17979455

申请日：2022-11-02

Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC

Inventor： Lucas Deruyter ,  Dré W.J. Jongmans ,  Arno Leenknegt ,  Bart M.A. Missotten ,  Sam Reubens ,  Frederik Tallir

IPC: A01D41/12 ,  A01D41/127

Abstract: A spreader system includes two spreader rotors configured to rotate about upright rotation axes and to eject residue crop material centrally between the rotors in a direction tangential to the rotors. The spreader system further includes a first structure that is configured to undergo an oscillating movement, such as a rotating oscillation about a central axis oriented in the tangential direction. The spreader system further includes adjustable deflector blades. The first structure can be a main deflector having main deflector blades, wherein the adjustable deflector blades are parallel to the main deflector blades and adjustable by a translation relative to the main deflector blades in an upward or downward direction, to thereby influence a gap between the main deflector and a lower plane of the rotors. The adjustable blades may be each pivotable relative to a frame so that their angular position can be set to one of several positions.

公开(公告)号：US20220400608A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-22

申请号：US17841936

申请日：2022-06-16

Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC

Inventor： Bart M.A. Missotten ,  Jasper Vanlerberghe ,  Sam Reubens ,  Lucas Deruyter ,  Frederik Tallir ,  Dré W.J. Jongmans ,  Sahand Hajshekoleslami ,  Pieter Van Overschelde

IPC: A01D34/14 ,  A01D34/83

Abstract: The cutting system includes knives attached to a continuously moving belt-type carrier. The carrier motion moves the knives past stationary counterknife fingers. Each knife is pivotably connected to the platform portion of a support bracket having also a wall portion that is fixed to the belt-type carrier. The knife is furthermore coupled to the bracket by a reversible force coupling that maintains the knife in a forwardly oriented operational position when the knife is subjected to lateral forces which exert a torque on the knife that remains below a predefined limit, encountered when the knife is cutting stalks or meeting small obstructions. When the knife is subjected to lateral forces resulting in a torque above the predefined limit, the force coupling is configured to be disengaged in a reversible manner, enabling the knife to pivot about a rotation axis towards a non-operational position.

公开(公告)号：US20220394926A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-15

申请号：US17835416

申请日：2022-06-08

Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC

Inventor： Bart M.A. Missotten ,  Arno Leenknegt ,  Jasper Vanlerberghe ,  Frederik Tallir ,  Lucas Deruyter ,  Luiz Henrique Di Creddo Palharin ,  Tim Passchyn ,  Dré W.J. Jongmans ,  Yuanyuan Li

IPC: A01D41/127 ,  A01D41/12 ,  G01B11/04

Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a threshing system for an agricultural harvester. The method includes using a camera for obtaining images of a crop flow, processing the obtained images and controlling an operational setting of the threshing system. The images are obtained downstream of the threshing system, preferably somewhere between the threshing rotor or threshing drum and the residue spreader. The image processing aims at detecting grain ears in the obtained images, and to derive from those images at least one physical property of the detected grain ears. The operational setting of the threshing system are controlled in dependence of the derived at least one physical property.

公开(公告)号：US20220394925A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-15

申请号：US17835149

申请日：2022-06-08

Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC

Inventor： Bart M.A. Missotten ,  Arno Leenknegt ,  Dré W.J. Jongmans ,  Thomas Mahieu ,  Bart Lenaerts ,  Yuanyuan Li ,  Lucas Deruyter ,  Frederik Tallir

IPC: A01D41/127 ,  A01D41/12

Abstract: A combine harvester includes a crop material sensor arrangement having a crop material sensor configured to monitor crop material downstream of a threshing and separating system of the combine, and having a sensor window through which the crop material sensor monitors the crop material. The sensor window is arranged adjacent to a flow path of the crop material such that crop material flows past the sensor window as it flows along the flow path, and the sensor window is arranged such that an angle is formed between a plane defined by the sensor window and a tangential projection that extends from a component of the combine harvester that influences the flow path immediately upstream of the sensor window. This ensures that the camera window remains sufficiently clean to allow the crop material sensor to monitor crop material through the window.

公开(公告)号：US20210307234A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-07

申请号：US17350413

申请日：2021-06-17

Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC

Inventor： Dré W.J. Jongmans ,  Bart M.A. Missotten ,  Kenneth De Ceunynck ,  Sam Reubens ,  Frederik Tallir ,  Pieter Van Overschelde ,  Michiel Desmyter

IPC: A01B73/00 ,  A01D41/14 ,  A01D67/00

Abstract: A header including at least one support and transport wheel assembly having an axle and two wheels. The wheel assembly is coupled to the main body of the header by an actuating system that has two actuator mechanisms. When changing from the field mode to the transport mode, the first actuator mechanism brings the wheel assembly forward from a position behind the header, after the header has been lifted up from the ground. After completion of this first movement, a second actuator mechanism swivels the wheel assembly to a position that is transversal to the header, after which the header is lowered to the ground. The two-step approach enables the changeover between field mode and transport mode without pivoting or otherwise moving the header relative to the feeder. The wheel axle may be pivotably suspended from a frame element that executes the swiveling movement.

公开(公告)号：US10779473B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-22

申请号：US15955881

申请日：2018-04-18

Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC

Inventor： Dré W. J. Jongmans ,  Bart M. A. Missotten ,  Frederik Tallir ,  Pieter Van Overschelde ,  Rik Vandendriessche ,  Yvan C. C. Vandergucht

IPC: A01D75/00 ,  A01D67/00 ,  A01D41/14

Abstract: A harvester header support for supporting a header of an agricultural harvester, having a forward travel mode and a rearward travel mode. In the forward travel mode a first coupling element is in a forward travel position relative to a second coupling element, and in the rearward travel mode the first coupling element is in a rearward travel position relative to the second coupling element, wherein the first coupling element is moveable from the forward travel position to the rearward travel position and/or vice versa by pivoting the first coupling element relative to the second coupling element about the first pivot axis. An agricultural harvester having the harvester header support and a method for operating the agricultural harvester are disclosed as well.

公开(公告)号：US10225982B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-12

申请号：US15248887

申请日：2016-08-26

Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC

Inventor： Bart M.A. Missotten ,  Tom De Smet ,  Frederik Tallir ,  Willem Vandamme ,  Geert Bonne

IPC: A01D45/02 ,  A01D57/06

Abstract: A stalked crop harvesting header include multiple harvesting units each including a set of deck plates defining a channel, a set of snapping rollers mounted below the deck plates and adapted to grasp and pull stalks downwardly through the channel, and a pair of gathering chains adapted for conveying stalks along the channel. Each harvesting unit further includes a stalk guider at either side of a front end of the channel. Each stalk guider includes an upper stalk guiding wheel and a lower stalk guiding wheel carried by a frame. The frame includes a protrusion between the upper and the lower stalk guiding wheels, which protrusion includes a support for carrying a respective front end of the snapping rollers.

公开(公告)号：US10130039B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-20

申请号：US15248866

申请日：2016-08-26

Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC

Inventor： Thomas Mahieu ,  Bart M. A. Missotten ,  Bart Lenaerts ,  Frederik Tallir ,  Pieter Van Overschelde ,  Tom N. N. Somers

IPC: G06F7/70 ,  A01F12/40

Abstract: An agricultural harvester for harvesting a crop on a field. The harvester includes a chopping assembly configured to chop a crop residue of the harvested crop. The chopping assembly includes an inlet for receiving the crop residue, a rotor provided with one or more cutting tools and configured to chop the crop residue, a drive assembly configured to drive the rotor, and an outlet for outputting the chopped crop residue onto the field. The harvester further includes an image based sensor configured to generate a signal comprising an image of the chopped crop residue and a processing unit configured to receive the signal from the image based sensor, process the signal to derive a geometric parameter indicative of a geometry of the chopped crop residue, and determine a control signal for the drive assembly based on the geometric parameter.

公开(公告)号：US10104840B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-23

申请号：US15313421

申请日：2015-05-28

Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC

Inventor： Frank R. G. Duquesne ,  Bart M. A. Missotten ,  Glenn Aesaert ,  Dré W. J. Jongmans ,  Thomas Mahieu ,  Frederik Tallir ,  Karel M. C. Viaene

IPC: A01D75/28 ,  A01F12/44 ,  A01D41/127

Abstract: A cleaning section of an agricultural harvester. The cleaning section including a sieve, a plurality of load sensors, and a sieve slope compensating system. The sieve is positioned in the harvester to receive crop material from a threshing section. The plurality of load sensors are coupled to the sieve. The load sensors are configured to produce signals representative of a distributed load of the crop material on the sieve. The sieve slope compensating system is configured to tilt or side shake the sieve dependent upon the signals.