690results about "Loaders" patented technology

A hitch point where a receiving vehicle is coupled to a following vehicle is located relative to a leading vehicle. The trajectory or route of the following vehicle is detected and a dynamic model estimates a location of a receiving area in the receiving vehicle relative to the leading vehicle based on the trajectory or route of the following vehicle and the location of the hitch point relative to the leading vehicle.

The internal geometry of a haulage vehicle is identified. A material transfer operation is controlled to transfer material from a material transfer vehicle to the haulage vehicle based on the internal geometry of the haulage vehicle.

A grain unloading monitoring system for use in operations moving grain from a grain cart to a grain truck or container utilizing at least one sensor configured to monitor a grain level within a grain container, a processor in electronic communication with the at least one sensor, and a command module in electronic communication with the processor. The command module is configured to command one or more components on a grain cart or grain container to distribute unloaded grain and prevent overfilling of the grain container based on the monitored grain level and grain fill rate.

An unmanned aerial vehicle that transports harvested crops harvested from a field, includes a flight device to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly, a controller configured or programmed to control operation of the flight device, a communication device to receive package position information indicating a first position where a target package for transport containing the harvested crops is located, and package weight information, and a support device to support the target package. The controller is configured or programmed to determine, based on the package weight information, whether the target package can be transported to a second position different from the first position, and when doing so, control the flight device to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly to the first position, cause the support device to support the target package, and control the flight device to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly to the second position.

A material transfer machine comprises a material container containing material and a material transfer system capable of transferring the material from the material container to another location, wherein the material transfer system comprises a discharge pipe movable between an operating position and a storage position and an actuator driving the movement of the discharge pipe between the operating position and the storage position.The material transfer machine further comprises one or more processors, a memory, and computer-executable instructions stored in the memory which, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to: receive an input indicating that the unloading tube should be moved from the operating position to the storage position; identify a pivot zone that defines an area in which the unloading tube will move when moved by the actuator from the operating position to the storage position; and generate a control signal based on the determination.

The utility model relates to the technical field of agricultural mechanical equipment, in particular to a small Chinese cabbage harvester which is internally provided with a cutting component, a conveying component, a storage assembly and a traveling assembly, the two ends of the conveying component are connected with the cutting component and the storage assembly respectively, and the traveling assembly is installed below the storage assembly; the cutting component comprises a cutting assembly and a stirring assembly, the cutting assembly comprises a first fixing frame, two pulling shovels of the same structure and two cutting pieces of the same structure, one end of the first fixing frame is connected with the conveying component, and each cutting piece is connected with the other end of the first fixing frame; the middle part of each pulling shovel is fixedly mounted at the top end of one cutting piece; thus, when Chinese cabbages are harvested, the Chinese cabbages are pulled up through the pulling shovel, the roots of the Chinese cabbages are cut off through the cutting piece located below the pulling shovel, in the process, due to the fact that the cutting piece is located below the pulling shovel, the cutting piece does not make direct contact with the Chinese cabbages, the Chinese cabbages cannot be damaged, and the quality of the Chinese cabbages is improved.

An unloading control system accesses a weight / mass versus position fill profile for an identified container. The unloading control system generates control signals to position the material transfer vehicle so that an initial landing point of material in the container is at a desired positioned based upon the fill profile. The unloading control system generates control signals to unload material into the container according to the weight / mass versus position fill profile and obtains an indicated of the weight / mass of material transferred. The control system generates control signals to control the landing point of material in the container based upon the fill profile and the weight / mass of material transferred.

An agricultural machine system includes a baling system. The baling system includes a bale forming region. The baling system also includes a tensioning arm rotatably coupled to a frame of the baling system at a pivot. The baling system also includes a first plurality of rollers disposed about the bale forming region. The baling system also includes a second plurality of rollers rotatably coupled to the tensioning arm. The baling system also includes a bale forming belt disposed about the bale forming region. The bale forming belt is engaged with the first plurality of rollers and the second plurality of rollers. A rotational axis of the pivot is positioned below a longitudinal central axis of a fully-formed bale disposed in the bale forming region at an end of a bale forming stage. At least a portion of each roller of the first plurality of rollers is disposed below a height of the fully-formed bale at the end of the bale forming stage.

A harvester receives obstacle and turn information indicative of positions of obstacles and the locations of turns. A relative position of the harvester and a receiving vehicle is detected and control signals are generated to control unloading functionality, which may include an unloading auger, a spout position and / or a flap position during unloading, while the obstacle is being avoided and / or while a turn is being navigated. An indication of some or all of the relative position, obstacle and turn information, and control signals can be uploaded to a remote server computing system for use in performing future machine control and analytics.

A computer implemented method includes obtaining historical operation data relative to a plurality of historical operations, the historical operation data including historical machine data, historical worksite data, historical productivity data, and historical logistics data; obtaining current operation data relative to an underway or upcoming operation, the current operation data including current machine data and current worksite data; generating, based on the obtained historical operation data and the obtained current operation data, an operation plan output relative to the underway or upcoming operation, the operation plan output including one or more of: (i) one or more machine routes; (ii) one or more sub-operation locations; (iii) one or more operation plan maps; or a combination of (i), (ii), and (iii); and generating control signals to control one or more mobile agricultural work machines based on the operation plan output.

A pickup assembly for an agricultural harvester comprises a pickup assembly frame, a pickup unit carried by the pickup assembly frame and configured to pick up crop from a field, and at least one skid shoe, mounted below at least a portion of the pickup unit.

Haymaking machine comprising two conveyors, each configured to move a product in a conveying orientation transverse to the direction of advance, in a first or a second conveying direction, and to be driven at a respective speed, with at least one conveyor movable substantially along the conveying orientation, so that the conveyors can be placed in at least one lateral configuration, in which the product is deposited by an outfeed conveyor, and in a central configuration. When the conveyors are placed in the lateral configuration, the speed of at least one of the conveyors is set automatically, so that the speed of the outfeed conveyor is greater than that of the other conveyor(s).

A grain cart-specific control system is configured to control a grain cart. A master control system interacts with the grain cart-specific control system in order to issue master control commands. The grain cart-specific control system receives the master control commands and executes grain cart-specific commands to carry out the master control commands.

A pickup assembly for an agricultural harvester includes a pickup assembly frame, a pickup unit configured to pick up crop, a feeding auger configured to receive the crop from the pickup unit and feed the crop towards a crop inlet of the harvester, and a wind guard assembly. The wind guard assembly includes a wind guard frame and a wind guard lifting mechanism coupled to the pickup assembly frame and the wind guard frame and including an actuator for lifting the wind guard frame from an operational configuration to a lifted configuration. The pickup assembly further includes a lock switch and an electronic circuit, operatively coupled to the lock switch and the actuator. The electronic circuit blocks control instructions from reaching the actuator when the lock switch is in an activated state and allows control instructions to reach the actuator when the lock switch is in a deactivated state.

A material transfer machine includes a material receptacle that holds material and a material transfer subsystem operable to transfer the material from the material receptacle to another location during a material transfer operation. The material transfer machine further includes: a material transfer status sensor that detects a variable indicative of whether the material transfer operation is complete at least to a threshold level and generates sensor data indicative of the variable; one or more processors; memory; and computer executable instructions, stored in the memory, the computer executable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, configuring the one or more processors to obtain the sensor data generated by the material transfer status sensor; determine whether the material transfer operation is complete, at least to the threshold level, based on the sensor data; and generate a control signal based on the determination.

A harvesting machine is provided for harvesting a crop and discharging the harvested crop to an offboard container, such as a wagon or a truck, or the ground. The harvesting machine includes a power system to provide power, a crop harvester powered by the power system, and a crop discharging system to discharge crop from an onboard storage container to the offboard location, typically a container. During a harvesting operation, the harvesting machine operates at a nominal maximum power, typically a current power consumption. The nominal maximum power is reduced in anticipation of a predicted power used for discharging the harvested crop from the onboard storage container. The current power consumption for harvesting is adjusted and allocated by the predicted power to make available power for the crop discharging system. Once crop is discharged using the discharging power, the harvesting machine returns to the nominal maximum power.

A material transfer machine includes a material receptacle that holds material and a material transfer subsystem operable to transfer the material from the material receptacle to another location, the material transfer subsystem comprising a chute moveable between a storage position and a deployed position and an actuator that drives movement of the chute between the storage position and the deployed position. The material transfer machine further includes one or more processors, memory, and computer executable instructions, stored in the memory, that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to: receive an input indicating that the chute should be moved from the storage position to the deployed position; identify a swing zone defining an area in which the chute will travel when moved from the storage position to the deployed position by the actuator; and generate a control signal based on the determination.

The utility model discloses a small square bale double-bale-outlet picking and baling machine which comprises a machine frame, a conveying and feeding device, a driving device, a gear box, a compressing and cutting device, a baling chamber and a baling needle device, and the conveying and feeding device, the driving device, the gear box, the compressing and cutting device, the baling chamber and the baling needle device are arranged on the machine frame. A vertical moving cutter is further arranged in the middle of the rear end face of the compressing and cutting-off device, a vertical fixed cutter device and a bale separating plate located behind the vertical fixed cutter device are further arranged on the inner side of the bale pressing chamber, and when the compressing and cutting-off device is controlled to do reciprocating motion, the vertical moving cutter on the compressing and cutting-off device and the vertical fixed cutter device in the bale pressing chamber form a shearing effect. The device is used for horizontally and vertically cutting pasture or crop straw synchronously, and bundling and compressing the cut pasture or crop straw into square bundles. When forage grass or crop straw is harvested, the combined operation of picking, conveying, feeding, compressing, baling, bundling and the like can be completed, two bales can be output at a time, a large bale can also be output, and the bale density and the operation efficiency are improved.

An agricultural system comprises: one or more weight sensors that detect the weight of the material in a first material container and generate sensor data indicating this weight; one or more processors; a memory; and computer-executable instructions stored in the memory which, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to: determine a weight change of the material in the first material container based on first sensor data indicating a weight of the material in the first material container at a first time point, and second sensor data indicating a weight of the material in the first material container at a second time point; determine a material overload rate indicating a rate at which a material overloading subsystem overloads material based on the determined weight change;and to determine a material fill level in a second material container based on the specified material overload rate.

A computer implemented method includes receiving a map that maps values of a crop characteristic to different locations across a field; receiving harvester route data indicative of a planned route of a harvester at the field; identifying a crop characteristic threshold; identifying a material transfer end location indicative of a location, along the planned route of the harvester, at which a material transfer operation between the harvester and a receiving machine is to end, based on the map, the planned route of the harvester, and the crop characteristic threshold; identifying a material transfer start location range indicative of a geographic area, along the planned route of the harvester, at which the material transfer operation is to start based on the material transfer end location; and generating a route for the receiving machine to travel based on the material transfer end location and the material transfer start location range.

Systems using sensors to monitor spillage of harvested crop. For example, some embodiments include an unloading conveyor configured to transfer agricultural material as well as one or more sensors configured to generate movement information associated with the agricultural material flowing out of the conveyor. Such embodiments can include a computing system, configured to predict an amount of the agricultural material that is likely to flow outside of a targeted area based on the movement information, and in response to the prediction, generate a signal that communicates an alert that the amount of the agricultural material is likely to flow outside of the targeted area or that controls an unloading process to change direction of the flow of the agricultural material to reduce an extent that agricultural material flows outside of the targeted area.

An agricultural harvesting system includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions, executable by the one or more processors, that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform steps comprising: obtaining harvesting logistics data; identifying, based, at least, on the harvesting logistics data, one or more harvest zones, each harvest zone indicative of a respective area of a worksite to be harvested; selecting, based, at least, on the one or more harvest zones, one or more unloading zones, each unloading zone indicative of a respective area at the worksite at which a material receiving machine is to be positioned to receive harvested material; and generating a control signal based, at least, on the one or more unloading zones.

A forage harvester with a camera system. The camera system is configured to detect and evaluate a harvested material flow processed by working units of the forage harvester. The harvested material flow comprises whole grains, and comminuted grains as grain components and non-grain components. The camera system comprising an image sensor and an objective arranged or positioned upstream from the image sensor. The image sensor, arranged or positioned opposite the viewing window, is positioned in a housing which is arranged or positioned on a discharge chute of the forage harvester and in which a transparent viewing window is arranged or positioned, past which the harvested material flow flows. Light beams from a first light source are directed onto the harvested material flow. Further, an image analysis apparatus receives images from the image sensor of the harvested material flow for evaluation.

An electronic display device including a visual display operably coupled to one or more sensors on a grain cart. The visual display is mounted on a grain transfer element of the grain cart. The visual display is configured to be viewable by an operator of the grain cart during a grain transfer operation. The visual is configured to display at least one of grain cart information or operating instructions.

A bale wrapping system includes a bale chamber configured to receive agricultural product and a belt configured to be disposed within the bale chamber. The belt is configured to be positioned between a bale wrap and an interior surface of the bale chamber while the belt is disposed within the bale chamber. Additionally, the belt is configured to support the bale wrap and to move into the bale chamber due to a weight of the agricultural product on the bale wrap. Further, the belt is configured to compact the agricultural product within the bale wrap, such that a bale of the agricultural product at least partially surrounded by the bale wrap is formed within the bale chamber.

An agricultural machine includes: a machine frame; and a feeder system coupled with the machine frame and including a windguard assembly, the windguard assembly being configured for selectively occupying a first position and a second position by moving therebetween, the first position being associated with a normal flow direction of a crop material relative to the feeder system, the second position being associated with a reversal of the normal flow direction of the crop material.

Disclosed is an agricultural baler assembly having, a pickup assembly, a primary roller assembly and a secondary roller assembly. The pickup assembly includes a tine reel with tines that rotate about a rotation axis and a pickup drum surrounding a portion of the tine reel. The primary roller assembly has a primary roller mounted to the baler assembly frame by primary roller arms that pivot about a primary roller arm pivot axis. The secondary roller assembly has a secondary roller mounted to the primary roller arms or the baler assembly frame by secondary roller arms that pivot about a secondary roller arm pivot axis. The primary roller rotation axis is spaced a first distance from the primary roller arm pivot axis; and the secondary roller rotation axis is spaced a second distance from the primary roller arm pivot axis, and the second distance is less than the first distance.

A self-propelled machine with a cabin (6) capable of tilting for a better maneuverability of the same, and which has a hopper (2) on which the harvesting machine unloads, which has augers (7) that homogeneously distribute the product within the hopper, a hopper (2) that is linked to the frame (1) of the machine by means of a scissor-type lifting mechanism (9) controllable from the cabin (6). The hopper (2) has an unloading flap (8), including on its bottom a longitudinal conveyor belt (10) operable from inside the cabin (6). This allows the harvester to continue working and unload at the point (place) where it is located without affecting the harvesting process in addition to avoiding the use of additional machinery in the process.

The utility model discloses a straw cleaning device and a returning machine adopting the straw cleaning device, the straw cleaning device comprises one or a plurality of cleaning assemblies arranged in parallel, each cleaning assembly comprises a volute, the volute is fixedly arranged and sleeved outside a first auger, the first auger comprises a shaft rod, the shaft rod is sleeved outside the volute, and the shaft rod is sleeved outside the first auger. A spiral extending blade is arranged on the shaft rod, the volute comprises a cambered surface section, the two ends of the cambered surface section extend outwards to form a first free end and a second free end, the volute and the first auger define a removing cavity, and the first free end and the second free end jointly form a suction inlet with a downward opening. When the first auger rotates under the action of an external driving unit, guiding airflow can be generated on the periphery of the first auger, so that straw enters the clearing cavity through the suction inlet. The field returning machine comprises a machine frame, and a straw smashing unit and a straw cleaning device are sequentially arranged on the machine frame. The straw cleaning device is reasonable in structure and good in straw cleaning effect.