CONTROL OF A CHOPPER ARRANGEMENT FOR AN AGRICULTURAL HARVESTER

    公开(公告)号:US20220394921A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-15

    申请号:US17835425

    申请日:2022-06-08

    摘要: A controller for controlling a chopper arrangement of an agricultural harvester. The controller receives sensor data indicative of an intensity of chopping performed on crop material by the chopper arrangement, and sensor data indicative of a power consumption of the chopper arrangement. The controller has a processor to determine an actuator setting for a chopper arrangement actuator of the agricultural harvester in dependence on the received sensor data indicative of the intensity of chopping and the received sensor data indicative of the power consumption. The controller sends an actuator control signal to the chopper arrangement actuator to control the chopper arrangement actuator to operate in accordance with the associated determined actuator setting. The determined actuator setting includes an amount of insertion, and an angle of insertion, of at least one bank of counter knives of the chopper arrangement relative to rotatable knife rows of the chopper arrangement.

    AGRICULTURAL RESIDUE DEPOSITING APPARATUS AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230225246A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-20

    申请号:US18094435

    申请日:2023-01-09

    摘要: An agricultural residue depositing apparatus includes a human-controllable mobile vehicle that is capable of generating agricultural residue and depositing it on a ground surface over which the mobile vehicle is moveable. The vehicle includes an interface device that is capable of generating one or more output that is interpretable by a human operator. The apparatus include sensors of agricultural residue deposited by the mobile vehicle and processors to which the sensors are operatively connected. The processors are additionally operatively connected to the interface device such that the interface device generates one or more outputs, based on one or more signals generated by the one or more sensors, of or relating to agricultural residue deposited by the mobile vehicle. The processors are capable of adding human-interpretable augmentation to the outputs indicating one or more parameters of or relating to the deposition of residue.

    ADJUSTABLE SPREADER SYSTEM FOR AN AGRICULTURAL HARVESTER

    公开(公告)号:US20230139286A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-04

    申请号:US17979455

    申请日:2022-11-02

    IPC分类号: A01D41/12 A01D41/127

    摘要: 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.

    BELT-TYPE CUTTING SYSTEM FOR CUTTING CROPS IN A FIELD

    公开(公告)号:US20220400608A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-22

    申请号:US17841936

    申请日:2022-06-16

    IPC分类号: A01D34/14 A01D34/83

    摘要: 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.