Method of measuring harvested product quantity in elevator of harvester

US5863247A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Claas KGaA · DE

Inventors

• Willi Behnke · Steinhagen, DE
• Norbert Diekhans · Gütersloh, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 25, 1996
• Grant date: Jan 26, 1999
• Expiry date: Nov 25, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01G11/14
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A quantity of a harvested product supplied by an elevator of a harvester from a lower side to an upper side is determined by measuring an elevator when it is located with the harvested product with consideration of weight of the empty elevator.