Combine harvester comprising yield corrector for correcting minimal section yield

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10980177-B2
Application number	US-201615580011-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 17, 2016
Priority date	Sep 2, 2015
Publication date	Apr 20, 2021
Grant date	Apr 20, 2021

Abstract

A combine harvester includes a conveyance mechanism for conveying grains obtained by a thresher for threshing grain culms reaped from a field to a grain tank, a measurer (340) for measuring the amount of grain conveyed to the grain tank as a conveyed yield, a yield assignment calculator (631) for calculating a minimal section yield, which is a yield per minimal section, by assigning the conveyed yield to a minimal section in the field, a grain conveyance state detector (632) for detecting a grain conveyance state of the conveyance mechanism (7), a yield corrector (633) for correcting the minimal section yield in accordance with the grain conveyance state, and a yield distribution data generator (661) for generating yield distribution data that represents a yield distribution in the field, based on the minimal section yield.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A combine harvester comprising:
a thresher for threshing grain culms reaped from a field;
a conveyance mechanism for conveying grains obtained by the thresher to a grain tank;
a measurer for measuring an amount of grain conveyed to the grain tank as a conveyed yield;
a yield assignment calculator for calculating a minimal section yield, which is a yield per minimal section, by assigning the conveyed yield to a minimal section of the field;
a grain conveyance state detector for detecting a grain conveyance state of the conveyance mechanism;
a yield corrector for correcting, in accordance with the grain conveyance state, the minimal section yield after the minimal section yield is calculated by the yield assignment calculator; and
a yield distribution data generator for generating yield distribution data representing a yield distribution in the field, based on the minimal section yield.

2. The combine harvester according to claim 1 , wherein
the grain conveyance state detector detects a drop in a conveyance speed of the conveyance mechanism and restoration from the drop in the conveyance speed, and
the yield corrector corrects a decrease in the minimal section yield due to the drop in the conveyance speed and an increase in the minimal section yield due to the restoration from the drop in the conveyance speed.

3. The combine harvester according to claim 2 , wherein
the yield corrector corrects the decrease in the minimal section yield and the increase in the minimal section yield, using an average minimal section yield obtained by averaging the decreased minimal section yield and the increased minimal section yield.

4. The combine harvester according to claim 1 , wherein
the yield assignment calculator has a delay correction function of correcting a delay time occurring between a grain culm reaping position and the measurer, and a position shift correction function of correcting a position shift between the grain culm reaping position and a vehicle position measuring point obtained through satellite navigation.

5. The combine harvester according to claim 1 , wherein
the measurer calculates the conveyed yield per unit of travel, based on an accumulation time required to accumulate a predetermined volume of grain, and a vehicle speed.

6. The combine harvester according to claim 5 , further comprising:
a yield measurement container for temporarily accumulating at least some of the grains supplied to the grain tank,
wherein the measurer measures the accumulation time using the yield measurement container.

Assignees

• Kubota Kk

Inventors

• Ueda Mao
• Ando Yoshimasa
• Takahara Kazuhiro
• Seki Mitsuhiro

Classifications

• A01F12/60

  Grain tanks {(for combines A01D41/1208)} · CPC title

• A01F12/46

  Mechanical grain conveyors · CPC title

• A01D41/127 Primary

  Control or measuring arrangements specially adapted for combines · CPC title

• A01D41/1208 Primary

  Tanks for grain or chaff (for threshing machines A01F12/60) · CPC title

• A01D41/1272 Primary

  for measuring grain flow · CPC title