Harvesting machine having a travel distance limit calculation program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11897333-B2
Application number	US-201816764014-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2018
Priority date	Nov 24, 2017
Publication date	Feb 13, 2024
Grant date	Feb 13, 2024

Abstract

A harvester includes: a crop tank that stores a crop harvested by a harvesting device; a weight detection unit that detects a storage weight, which is a value indicating the weight of the crop stored in the crop tank; a maximum weight calculation unit that calculates a maximum weight, which is a value indicating the weight of the crop at the maximum storage amount of the crop tank; a unit harvest weight calculation unit calculates a unit harvest weight that indicates the weight of the crop harvested per unit of harvest-travel distance; and a maximum travel distance calculation unit that calculates a maximum travel distance, which is the maximum distance that can be traveled during traveling harvesting before the amount of the crop stored in the crop tank reaches the maximum storage amount, based on the storage weight, the maximum weight, and the unit harvest weight.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A harvester that includes a harvesting device for harvesting a crop in a field and a traveling device, and that is capable of performing traveling harvesting in which the crop in the field is harvested with use of the harvesting device while traveling with use of the traveling device, the harvester comprising:
a crop tank configured to store the crop harvested by the harvesting device;
a weight detection unit configured to detect a storage weight, which is a value that indicates a weight of the crop stored in the crop tank;
a maximum weight calculation unit configured to calculate a maximum weight during harvesting work, the maximum weight being a value that indicates a weight of the crop at a maximum storage amount of the crop tank;
a unit harvest weight calculation unit configured to calculate a unit harvest weight, which is a weight of the crop harvested per unit of harvest-travel distance;
a maximum travel distance calculation unit configured to calculate a maximum travel distance, which is a maximum distance that can be traveled during the traveling harvesting before an amount of the crop stored in the crop tank reaches the maximum storage amount, based on the storage weight detected by the weight detection unit, the maximum weight calculated by the maximum weight calculation unit, and the unit harvest weight calculated by the unit harvest weight calculation unit; and
an accumulation height detection unit configured to detect an accumulation height of the crop stored in the crop tank,
wherein the maximum weight calculation unit calculates the maximum weight by dividing the storage weight detected by the weight detection unit by a ratio of the accumulation height detected by the accumulation height detection unit to a maximum value of the accumulation height.

Assignees

• Kubota Kk

Inventors

• Sakaguchi Kazuo
• Sano Tomohiko
• Yoshida Osamu
• Maruo Satoshi
• Nakabayashi Takashi

Classifications

• B60K31/00 Primary

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