2277 results about "Reaper" patented technology

The invention relates to the technical field of agricultural equipment state monitoring, and discloses an agricultural equipment state monitoring system based on the Internet of Things, which comprises an acquisition unit, an analysis unit, a stripping unit, a fusion unit and a decision unit, and is characterized in that vibration, rotating speed, torque, soil hardness and environmental data are acquired in multiple dimensions through an Internet of Things sensor network; a physical compensation factor is generated through working condition synchronous analysis, interference of soil hardness on vibration data is effectively stripped, a coupling wear index is generated through fusion of a residual feature vector and environment temperature and humidity, a state threshold value is dynamically adjusted through combination of historical fault data, and then interference of soil hardness changes on a vibration spectrum is accurately eliminated. The misjudgment of the abrasion degree caused by frequency spectrum distortion is avoided, the dynamic and accurate monitoring of the abrasion state of the harvester blade is realized, and the accuracy of monitoring the state of agricultural equipment in dry farmland operation is improved.

A system for adjusting gains for position control of a header of an agricultural harvester includes a header of an agricultural harvester, an actuator configured to adjust a position of the header relative to a field, and a computing system communicatively coupled to the actuator. The computing system is configured to receive data indicative of a contour of the field forward of the agricultural harvester relative to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural harvester. The computing system is further configured to determine an aggressiveness of the contour of the field based at least in part on the data indicative of the contour of the field. Additionally, the computing system is configured to adjust a gain for controlling the actuator based at least in part on the aggressiveness of the contour of the field.

A deck plate sensing system for a corn harvester having a sensing unit. The sensing unit having a sensor and a magnet associated with a row unit of the corn harvester. The magnet and sensor are configured to measure a distance between the magnet and the magnetic sensor and apply a calibration to determine a relative distance between an adjustable deck plate and a fixed deck plate.

A header of a harvester includes a header segment, a center section, an actuator coupling the header segment to the center section, and a controller. The header segment includes a cutter bar configured to cut crops and the header segment includes a first portion of a conveyor assembly. The center section includes a second portion of the conveyor assembly, in which the center section is configured to receive crops from the header segment via the first portion of the conveyor assembly, and the second portion of the conveyor assembly is configured to transport the received crops to a crop processing system of the harvester. The controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of a target position of the header segment and the controller is configured to control the actuator to adjust the header segment to the target position.

Systems and methods are provided for monitoring operation of an agricultural harvesting machine, such as a forage harvester. A first sensor, operably coupled, in use, to the harvesting machine, obtains first sensor data which is indicative of a crop content measure. A second sensor, operably coupled, in use, to the harvesting machine, obtains second sensor data which is indicative of a crop size measure. A crop processing metric is calculated in dependence on the first and second sensor data and used to control operation of one or more operable components of or otherwise associated with the agricultural harvesting machine, e.g. to adjust a level of processing applied by the harvesting machine.

Systems and methods are provided for controlling operation of one or more operable components of or otherwise associated with a crop transfer device of an agricultural harvesting machine. Data indicative of a position of an unloading spout of the crop transfer device is used to determine an operational setting for a crop transfer device for controlling a discharge trajectory of material from the unloading spout. One or more operable components of or otherwise associated with the crop transfer device can be controlled accordingly.

The disclosure relates to the system and methods for generating a guidance path for automated navigation of large agricultural equipment. Vehicle path data from leading vehicles can be recorded, stored or inputted into the system for generation of guidance paths offset from the swaths traversed by the leading vehicle. Combines, planters sprayers and other vehicles utilizing guidance system can be used to record leading vehicle data for use by the following vehicle in real time or in subsequent cycles. Enterprise systems can manage multiple grain carts and / or combines or other vehicles to maximize efficiency.

A control system controls the operation of a harvester and / or receiving vehicle so that the receiving vehicle can travel adjacent the harvester, behind a harvesting head on the harvester, during a breakthrough pass in the harvesting operation. The control system can include an interlock system which generates an interlock signal when unloading during breakthrough harvesting is not desired. The control signal can include a monitoring system that generates a control signal during the breakthrough pass, and a logistics system that identifies a desired location for the breakthrough pass.

The invention provides an intelligent fault diagnosis and safety protection method for a combine harvester, and the method comprises the steps: carrying out the quantitative analysis of the influence degree of a fault on the system safety and operation continuity through a risk assessment model, calculating a fault danger grade score through combining historical fault data and equipment aging state information, and carrying out the calculation of the fault danger grade score. A five-level danger classification result from slight danger to serious danger is obtained; acquiring system response data after isolation control is executed, monitoring running state changes and load redistribution conditions of residual normal parts, adjusting control parameters through a real-time feedback mechanism, and judging the effectiveness of isolation measures and the maintenance degree of system stability; a closed-loop feedback mechanism is adopted to continuously monitor the fault isolation effect and the system operation performance, key data in the processing process are collected to update fault diagnosis model parameters, the risk level evaluation accuracy and the protection range division rationality are optimized, and a continuously improved intelligent fault diagnosis and safety protection system is obtained.

A grain loss detector disposed on a combine harvester to detect grain loss within crop material being discharged by a separating or cleaning stage component of combine harvester while harvesting a crop. The grain loss detector includes at sensor generating sensor data output. A computing device receives the sensor data output for processing via software which compares the sensor data output against crop data characteristics to identify any grain kernels from among material other than grain. In one embodiment the sensor is a camera and the generated sensor data output is a digital image frame capturing the grain kernels and material other than grain passing the camera.

A change of state of weed seeds to having reduced germination viability in under one minute by illuminating a seed with at least one of 2 J / cm2 cumulative illumination energy, and 0.2 W / cm2 irradiance, but no more than 7 W / cm2 average irradiance, of at least one of an Indigo Region Illumination Distribution (IRID), and infrared radiation that is substantially Medium Wavelength Infrared (MWIR) radiation, preferably 2-8 microns. The MWIR radiation from heated borosilicate glass or glass powder at just under 500 C offered a peak MWIR emission of 3.75 microns was unexpectedly effective, and can be used in a radiant and transmissive weed seed accumulator transport belt. The process can be incorporated into a harvester combine to convert a tailings flow prior to discharge on an agricultural field. An illuminated harvest combine using an illuminator according to the invention allows reduction of the weed seed bank.

The invention provides a grain impurity rate and breakage rate monitoring system and method for a combine harvester. The grain impurity rate and breakage rate monitoring system comprises a grain sampling device, an image acquisition device and a control device, the grain sampling device is installed on the side wall of the vertical grain conveying barrel, a grain inlet of the grain sampling device is connected with a grain outlet hole in the side wall of the vertical grain conveying barrel through a hose, and a grain outlet of the grain sampling device is connected with a feeding port of the image acquisition device through a connecting pipe; the image acquisition device is connected with the control device, an image acquisition module of the control device controls the image acquisition device to acquire a grain image, and online calculation of the impurity rate and the breakage rate of the grain is realized on the grain image through a YOLOv8-Seg instance segmentation model of the image processing module in combination with an impurity rate and breakage rate mathematical model; finally, a detection result is displayed on a display screen in real time, visual numerical values can be provided for an operator of the combine harvester, and the operator is helped to adjust working parameters of the harvester. The method can be used for harvesting rice, wheat, oilseed rape and soybeans, and has wide applicability.

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.

A system for removing debris from an agricultural harvester includes a flow splitter supported relative to an outlet of a chopper assembly of the harvester such that the flow splitter at least partially extends within a stream of processed crop material discharged from the chopper assembly. The flow splitter is configured to divide the stream of processed crop material into separate crop material flows for receipt within an extraction chamber of the agricultural harvester.

An agricultural harvester has a frame and a spout that is mounted to the frame. A target landing point indicates a position in a receiving vehicle where material is intended to land. A control system detects an actual landing point and automatically controls the spout based on a difference between the actual landing point and the target landing point.

Weed seeds are destroyed in the chaff from a combine harvester by primary and secondary destructors where the primary feeds to the secondary. The secondary can use repeated high speed impacts caused by a rotor mounted in one of a pair of side by side housings which accelerate the discarded seeds in a direction centrifugally away from the rotor onto a stator including angularly adjustable stator surfaces around the axis. The primary can also use an impact arrangement of a different and simplified structure or can use another destruction modality such as radiation. The primary is mounted at a transfer device including a transverse auger which carries the chaff and weed seeds from the rear of the sieve to the secondary.

A harvester operating settings initialization method and system receives, by electronic control architecture having a processor and memory, a plurality of aggregated data sets pertaining to multiple parameters including harvester machine parameters, harvester environment parameters, and crop parameters. The electronic processing architecture applies modeling logic to the plurality of aggregated data sets to determine a selected evaluation group from a plurality of evaluation groups each having multiple of the plurality of aggregated data sets. The electronic control architecture generates an optimization settings data set for machine and crop combinations utilizing the selected evaluation group for one or more geospatial locations. The optimization settings data set is transferred from the electronic control architecture to an operating setting controller of a harvester for initializing settings of operational systems of the harvester.

A crop loss monitoring method includes detecting crop loss in a measurement area when the measurement area corresponds to an unharvested area of a field and generating pre-harvest crop loss sensor data based thereon. The method further includes detecting crop loss in the measurement area when the measurement area is behind a distal end of a header of a harvester and generating harvesting crop loss sensor data based thereon. The method further includes identifying a pre-harvest crop loss value based on the pre-harvest crop loss sensor data, identifying a harvesting crop loss value based on the harvesting crop loss sensor data and the pre-harvest crop loss value, and generating one or more control signals based on at least one of the pre-harvest crop loss value or the harvesting crop loss value.

Method and corresponding system for estimating crop yield from vegetation index data. At least one multispectral image (201) including a field is obtained. The part of the multispectral image (201) that represents the agricultural field (301) is delineated, and vegetation indices for locations within the agricultural field (301) are derived from the multispectral image (201). Samples of actual yield data representing yield measurements for locations within the agricultural field (301) are obtained as measured by a yield monitor on a combine harvester (208) used to harvest selected areas of the agricultural field (301). By correlating the vegetation indices with the yield data, a relationship between respective vegetation index values and corresponding absolute yield estimates is determined. The determined relationship can be used to obtain estimates of actual yield from different parts of the field, and this information can be used to identify field maintenance needs, fertilization rates, and more.

A novel pepper harvester belongs to the technical field of agricultural product harvesting machinery. The device is characterized in that the upper cutting plate module comprises a transmission shaft, a first rotating shaft, a chain wheel and a chain; the transmission shaft and the first rotating shaft are oppositely arranged, one end of each chain winds the corresponding chain wheel on the transmission shaft, and the other end of each chain winds the corresponding chain wheel on the first rotating shaft; a plurality of upper elastic teeth are arranged on the upper surface of each chain at equal intervals; the lower cutting plate module comprises a second rotating shaft, a third rotating shaft and a plurality of lower cutting plate connecting plates; the second rotating shaft and the third rotating shaft are oppositely arranged; the plurality of lower elastic teeth are distributed at equal intervals in the axial direction of the second rotating shaft; the two ends of each lower cutting plate connecting plate are wound around the second rotating shaft and the third rotating shaft respectively. The upper cutting plate module and the lower cutting plate module are driven, so that the upper elastic teeth and the lower elastic teeth relatively transmit in the advancing direction, and pepper harvesting is achieved. The roller type pepper harvester solves the problems that the contact area of elastic teeth and peppers on a traditional roller type pepper harvester is small, and the harvesting impurity rate and the pepper breakage rate are high.

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.

A conveyor device for use in a cutting unit of an agricultural harvester. The conveyor device includes a frame and at least one conveyor belt which revolves endlessly around two rollers arranged parallel to one another. A distance between the two rollers may be adjusted using a tensioning device. A first roller may be rotatably driven, and a second roller may be mounted to revolve freely. A device for rotational speed detection (associated with the first roller) is configured to detect a rotational speed of the first roller. Further, a second device (associated with the second roller) detect the rotational speed of the second roller during operation of the conveyor belt.

A rear module, as illustrated with tanks, seed blowers, and transfer pump for fertilizer is mounted on the existing design frame, axle, and steering system; but it is a separate, distinct module. The planting module and the harvesting module must be disconnected from the common front module power unit and switched for planting row crops or harvesting. The harvesting configuration can have an attachment to the header to seed non row crops, such as, a cover crop like rye or canola Such rear module can be the rear unit of an articulated vehicle, such as a harvester.

The utility model discloses a grain harvester, which relates to the technical field of agricultural machinery, including a mobile trolley, a rotating shaft and an adjusting rod, a swing rod is movably installed on the inner wall of the other side of the mobile trolley, and a cutting device is connected to one side of the swing rod, a rotating shaft is movably installed on the inner wall of the cutting device, and a mounting rod is connected below the rotating shaft, a threaded rod is installed on the inner wall of the mounting rod, and a lifting rod is installed on the outer wall below the threaded rod, a cutting disc is connected below the lifting rod, an adjusting rod is connected to one side of the first bevel gear, and a fixing sleeve is installed on the outer side of the adjusting rod. The utility model utilizes the second drive motor to make the third gear rotate in a forward and reverse cycle, and the third gear is meshed with the half gear, so that the swing rod drives the cutting disc to swing left and right for cutting, thereby expanding the cutting area and solving the problem of low cutting efficiency.

A stalk sensing system, comprising a bracket, sensor shell configured to be mounted to the bracket, a sensor configured for insertion into the sensor shell, a wand configured to be mounted to the sensor shell, and one or more anti-rotation features. The harvester and stalk sensing system may also into one or more board holding features and, optionally, a crop divertor(s).

The invention discloses a self-propelled corn harvester and a corn harvesting method for hilly terrains, and relates to the field of corn harvesters, the self-propelled corn harvester comprises a threshing cylinder, a threshing shaft, a main roller, a plurality of auxiliary rollers and an auger filter plate, the threshing shaft is rotatably connected with the threshing cylinder, and center gears are installed at the two ends of the threshing shaft; the main roller and the auxiliary rollers are arranged in the threshing cylinder, the main roller is fixedly installed in the middle of the threshing shaft, planetary gears are installed at the two ends of each auxiliary roller, inner insection rings are installed at the two ends in the threshing cylinder, and the planetary gears are meshed with the corresponding center gears and the corresponding inner insection rings. Baffles are installed at the two ends of the interior of the threshing cylinder, the auger filter plate is arranged in the threshing cylinder, and a plurality of transverse screen holes are evenly formed in the auger filter plate. Through the overall structure arrangement, corn can be peeled and threshed, corn coats can be discharged from the threshing cylinder, and the corn threshing process is prevented from being affected by the corn coats.

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 system and method for generating a guidance path for automated navigation of large agricultural equipment. Vehicle path data from leading vehicles can be recorded, stored or inputted into the system for generation of guidance paths offset from the swaths traversed by the leading vehicle. Combines, planters sprayers and other vehicles utilizing guidance system can be used to record leading vehicle data for use by the following vehicle in real time or in subsequent cycles. Enterprise systems can manage multiple grain carts and / or combines or other vehicles to maximize efficiency.

One or more embodiments of the invention disclose a heuristic algorithm-based receiving and transportation cooperative scheduling method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method comprises the steps of obtaining attribute parameters and task parameters related to a collection and transportation cooperation task between the harvester and the grain transport vehicle, wherein the task parameters are parameters describing the collection and transportation cooperation task; based on a preset optimization target, using the attribute parameters and the task parameters to construct a collection and transportation cooperation model used for solving a target grain unloading strategy of cooperative grain unloading of the harvester and the grain transport vehicle, the target grain unloading strategy at least comprises a transfer path for the grain transporting vehicle to move to a grain unloading point in the harvesting path after receiving a grain unloading request; based on the harvesting path of the harvester, using a heuristic algorithm to solve the harvesting and transporting cooperation model to obtain a target grain unloading strategy; and executing the target grain unloading strategy to schedule the grain transport vehicle to assist the harvester to unload grains based on the transfer path.

A grain cleaning system for a combine harvester having a transmitter adapted to transmit a base signal at a known frequency and one or more spaced receivers for detecting signals of a different frequency as reflected from airborne grain and other materials within the duct of the grain cleaning system. An Electronic Control Unit modulates the base signal and the reflected signals to obtain Doppler signals or frequencies from which an average particle velocity is determined. The particle velocity is used as an input parameter for the generation of control signals for the adjustment of various working units of the combine harvester including, by way of example, the fan and sieves.