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WO2014116819A1 - Système et procédé d'assistance au déchargement d'une moissonneuse agricole - Google Patents

Système et procédé d'assistance au déchargement d'une moissonneuse agricole Download PDF

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WO2014116819A1
WO2014116819A1 PCT/US2014/012737 US2014012737W WO2014116819A1 WO 2014116819 A1 WO2014116819 A1 WO 2014116819A1 US 2014012737 W US2014012737 W US 2014012737W WO 2014116819 A1 WO2014116819 A1 WO 2014116819A1
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grain
bogey
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Ben N. Dillon
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Tribine Industries Llc
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Priority to BR112015016740-3A priority patent/BR112015016740B1/pt
Publication of WO2014116819A1 publication Critical patent/WO2014116819A1/fr

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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01B—SOIL WORKING IN AGRICULTURE OR FORESTRY; PARTS, DETAILS, OR ACCESSORIES OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES OR IMPLEMENTS, IN GENERAL
    • A01B69/00—Steering of agricultural machines or implements; Guiding agricultural machines or implements on a desired track
    • A01B69/001—Steering by means of optical assistance, e.g. television cameras
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01D—HARVESTING; MOWING
    • A01D41/00—Combines, i.e. harvesters or mowers combined with threshing devices
    • A01D41/12—Details of combines
    • A01D41/1208—Tanks for grain or chaff
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01D—HARVESTING; MOWING
    • A01D41/00—Combines, i.e. harvesters or mowers combined with threshing devices
    • A01D41/12—Details of combines
    • A01D41/1208—Tanks for grain or chaff
    • A01D41/1217—Unloading mechanisms
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01D—HARVESTING; MOWING
    • A01D43/00—Mowers combined with apparatus performing additional operations while mowing
    • A01D43/06—Mowers combined with apparatus performing additional operations while mowing with means for collecting, gathering or loading mown material
    • A01D43/07—Mowers combined with apparatus performing additional operations while mowing with means for collecting, gathering or loading mown material in or into a trailer
    • A01D43/073—Mowers combined with apparatus performing additional operations while mowing with means for collecting, gathering or loading mown material in or into a trailer with controllable discharge spout

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  • the present disclosure relates to a system and method to unload grain from a grain tank on an agricultural harvester to a transport vehicle, and specifically to a system and method that identifies the relative position of a agricultural harvester with regard to the transport vehicle and assists the agricultural harvester operator in maintaining a desired distance between the vehicles.
  • U.S. Patent No. 6,012,272 A departure from the art is disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 6,012,272, however, in that the forward bogey is devoid of an on-board grain bin, but carries the operator's cab, engine, grain harvesting assembly, and grain transfer assembly.
  • the rear bogey has the on-board grain bin and steerable powered wheel assembly.
  • U.S. Patent No. 6,339,917 discloses a similar articulated combine where the forward bogey is devoid of an on-board grain bin, but carries the operator's cab, engine, grain harvesting assembly, and grain transfer assembly.
  • the rear bogey has the on-board grain bin and a powered wheel assembly. Tracks, one wheel pair, and two wheel pairs, are illustrated for the harvester.
  • the presently disclosed articulated combine is based on a different steering philosophy for the rear bogey for grain unloading, as well as for crabbing the rear bogey during grain unloading; and other different philosophies, as disclosed herein.
  • Proximity sensors are affixed to the side of the grainhead and on the side of the rear end of the rear bogey.
  • Cameras are affixed to the front of the forward bogey looking to the side of the forward bogey, to the front of the rear bogey looking rearwardly into the rear bogey grain storage, to the rear of the rear bogey, and on the grain arm discharge end.
  • Readout from the sensors are fed to memory for each type of grain off-loading vehicle for later use by the operator in placing the combine in the optimum unloading position.
  • Video also is fed to a display confronting the combine operator.
  • FIG. 1 is an overhead view of the disclosed harvester and a grain hauling semi vehicle with the rear harvester bogey crabbed for unloading grain into the grain hauling semi vehicle and showing the proximity sensors and cameras carried by the disclosed harvester;
  • FIG. 2 is a rear view of the disclosed harvester and a grain hauling semi vehicle of Fig. 1 ;
  • Fig. 3 is a side view of the disclosed harvester of Fig. 1 ; and [013] Fig. 4 is the read-out module for the driver of the disclosed harvester showing the relative distance between the disclosed harvester and the grain hauling semi vehicle at different locations and the video feed from the cameras carried by the disclosed harvester.
  • the articulated agricultural harvester or combine (these terms being synonymous and used interchangeably) in the drawings is a TribineTM harvester (Tribine Industries LLC, Logansport, IN) having a grain bin capacity of 1 ,000 bushels of clean grain and unloads the clean grain at a rate of 500 bushels per minute.
  • TribineTM harvester Tribine Industries LLC, Logansport, IN
  • the combine carries proximity sensors and cameras at various locations identified below along with a readout positioned for viewing by the combine operator to monitor the readout values thereof.
  • a processor is used that is capable of learning/storing where the optimum unloading position of the harvester and of the rear grain bogey relative to the grain hauling vehicle for use later.
  • the operator indicates to the processor the optimum values of distance; thus, enabling the processor to store such values for later use on this and other vehicles.
  • an articulated harvester, combine, or harvesting combine, 10 is fitted with a 16-row cornhead, 12, and consists of a forward bogey, 14, and rear bogey, 16. While combine 10 is fitted with wheels, it could be a tracked combine.
  • Forward bogey 14 is fitted with an operator cab, engine, grain cleaning and handling, and similar capability, but for grain storage, which it is devoid of.
  • rear bogey 16 is fitted with a grain bin and unloading capability, for example, a grain-unloading arm, 18, housing a conveyor (e.g., a screw conveyor), such as is described in commonly-owned U.S. Patent No. 8,286,984.
  • Adjacent to combine 10 is a grain hauling semi vehicle, 20, consisting of a forward cab with engine, 22, towing a grain trailer, 24, capable of holding 1 ,000 bushels of clean grain.
  • a grain hauling semi vehicle 20 consisting of a forward cab with engine, 22, towing a grain trailer, 24, capable of holding 1 ,000 bushels of clean grain.
  • combine 10 unloads its clean grain from rear bogey 16 while the combine is in the field harvesting additional grain; thus, the need to unload its grain bin very rapidly.
  • transport vehicle 20 pulls up next to combine 10 and or combine 10 moves over adjacent to transport vehicle 20.
  • Rear bogey 16 then can be crabbed to move its unloading arm 18 to a position such that the discharge end, 26, is centered over grain trailer 24 and clean grain unloading proceeds.
  • forward bogey 14 is fitting with camera, 28, on its left side.
  • Rear bogey 14 also is fitted with camera, 32, at its upper front center.
  • Each of these cameras feeds a video image to the combine operator so he can see grain hauling semi vehicle disclosed harvester and a grain hauling semi vehicle 20.
  • Rear bogey 16 also is fitted with a proximity sensor, 34, at its left rear and, 36, at its right rear.
  • Discharge end 26 of grain unloading arm 18 also is fitted with a camera, 38.
  • An additional camera, 39, is carried by rear bogey 16 at its upper rear.
  • cornhead 12 is fitted with a proximity sensor, 40 at its left side. All proximity sensors also feed their data to the combine operator.
  • the cameras may be Agcam cameras (Dakota Micro, Inc., Cayuga, ND) and the sensors may be Senix TSPC-155 ultrasonic distance sensors (Senix Corporation, Hinesburg, VT).
  • Harvesting combine 10 unloads clean grain only on its left side in the embodiment in the drawings. It will be recognized that the cameras and sensors could be located only on the right side for unloading clean grain on the right side or located on both sides for providing unloading of clean grain on both sides.
  • All readout information from the sensors is fed to a processor (for example, Agcam quad processor DMAC-Q; not shown) and then to an operator interface touchscreen, 44, mounted with a jointed mounting arm and speaker, say, to the upper left front of the combine operator (see Fig. 4).
  • a Topcon AGA4353 touchscreen Topic Positioning Systems, Inc., Livermore, CA
  • Four video screens, 46, 47, 48, and 49, are located in the touchscreen instrument.
  • Sensor distance information, 50 is displayed in the lower half.
  • the combine operator can set the ideal distances for each distance sensor using a light slide bar, 52, which feeds such information to the processor so that it can "learn" such ideal distances for use by the combine operator in later grain unloading operations using, for example, SenixVIEW software.
  • the combine can hear audio commands operator through the provided speaker. Parameters can be set for multiple types of grain off-load vehicles and later recalled for use by the operator.
  • distance measuring sensor 40 mounted on the left side of harvesting head 12 senses vehicle 20 and starts to measure the standoff distance.
  • Touchscreen 44 will display the distance on red, yellow, and green light bar 32 and audibly inform the operator which direction to steer.
  • the processor will be comparing the measured standoff distance with the optimum which the operator has previously set by positioning combine 10 where the operatyor wants it to unload and hitting the "Learn" button on touchscreen 44, which puts the ideal distance parameters in processor memory by type of off-load vehicle.
  • sensor 34 mounted near the unload auger measures the standoff distance and tells the operator both visually and audibly whether to crab steer rear module 16 left or right to move unload auger 18 to the optimum standoff distance.
  • the processor can automatically complete moving (steer) the combine into the ideal grain unloading position, including crabbing the rear grain bogey.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne une moissonneuse-batteuse articulée améliorée, composée d'une tête avant de coupe de céréales portée par un train avant dépourvu de stockage de céréales et conduit par un opérateur et un train arrière de stockage de céréales, capable de se déplacer latéralement. Des capteurs de proximité sont fixés sur le côté de la tête de coupe et sur le côté de l'extrémité arrière du train arrière. Des caméras sont fixées à l'avant du train avant pour regarder vers le côté du train avant, à l'avant du train arrière pour regarder en arrière dans le stockage de céréales du train arrière, à l'arrière du train arrière, et à l'extrémité de déchargement du bras à céréales. La transmission des données provenant des capteurs est entrée en mémoire pour chaque type de véhicule de transbordement de céréales, en vue d'une utilisation ultérieure par l'opérateur pour placer la moissonneuse-batteuse dans la position de déchargement optimale. Les vidéos sont aussi affichées sur un écran faisant face à l'opérateur de la moissonneuse-batteuse.
PCT/US2014/012737 2013-01-24 2014-01-23 Système et procédé d'assistance au déchargement d'une moissonneuse agricole WO2014116819A1 (fr)

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DE112014000274.7T DE112014000274T5 (de) 2013-01-24 2014-01-23 Entladeassistenzsystem und -verfahren für eine landwirtschaftliche Erntemaschine
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BR112015016740-3A BR112015016740B1 (pt) 2013-01-24 2014-01-23 sistema de assistência para descarregamento de colheitadeira agrícola

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