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Agricultural sampling apparatus and system

US11320369B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Deere & Company · US

Inventors

Georg Kormann · Zweibrücken, DE
Wolfram Haiges · Magstadt, DE
Peter Schade · Bad Dürkheim, DE
Nico Correns · Weimar, DE
Bernhard Fischer · Wien, AT
Fred Grunert · Mannheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 2, 2018
Grant date	May 3, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 6, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2201/127
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In one embodiment, an agricultural sampling apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprising: a wave emitter; a wave transmitter configured to direct the waves from the wave emitter as a plurality of linewise waves to irradiate surface points of the agricultural sample; a dispersive element configured to receive waves arriving from the sample and deflect the arriving waves in at least two directions depending upon the wavelength of an arriving wave; and a detector configured with a plurality of detection elements disposed in at least two dimensions, the detector configured to convert the waves arriving from the dispersive element to a signal.

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