Patent · US Expired

Method of optimizing utilization of a group of agricultural machine

US5712782A · kind A · utility

177Cited by

11References

17Claims

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Assignee

Claas KGaA · DE

Inventors

Horst Weigelt · Vellmar, DE
H. H. Wippersteg · Stromberg, DE
Stefan Boettinger · Bielefeld, DE
Thilo Steckel · Harsewinkel, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 15, 1996
Grant date	Jan 27, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 15, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG05B2219/45017
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In the process for optimizing operation of a group of agricultural machines a controlling processor, which exchanges data telemetrically with on-board processors of agricultural machines and devices, optimizes the internally optimized control cycles of the individual on-board processors and transmits controlling data to the on-board processors, which it has determined from collective scanning of operating data transmitted to it from the entire group of agricultural machines. Overloading of available data transmission capacity and excessively large memory capacity requirements are avoided by a special categorizing of data and an advantageous selection of memory locations for the resulting data.

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