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Material evaluating arrangement for an agricultural work machine

US12228504B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Deere & Company · US

Inventors

Peter Schade · Bad Dürkheim, DE
Helge Klein · Cologne, DE
Frank Michael Weber · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 12, 2021
Grant date	Feb 18, 2025
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 6, 2043

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01N2201/1296
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A material evaluating device for an agricultural work machine comprising: a light source for illuminating one or more constituent materials to be examined; a spectrometer for providing a spectral signal related to the wavelength-specific intensity of light reflected by the constituent materials; and an evaluation device configured to determine the content of one or more constituent materials using the spectral signal of the spectrometer and a calibration data, wherein a property signal relating to a property of the one or more constituent materials is supplied to the evaluation device and the evaluation device is configured, using the property signal, to determine the content of the one or more constituent materials.

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