Device for moisture measurement in harvesting machines

US6327899A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Norbert Diekhans · Gütersloh, DE
• Georg Eggenhaus · Ostbevern, DE
• Winfried Wesselmann · Warendorf, DE
• Willi Behnke · Steinhagen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 2, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 11, 2001
• Expiry date: Oct 2, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N33/10
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device for moisture measurement in harvesting machines, including removing material to be measured from a stream of crop material, supplying the material to be measured to a measuring chamber, an associated moisture sensor, and returning the measured material to the stream of crop material. One improvement is compulsory cleaning and/or emptying of the measuring chamber and/or of at least one moisture sensor. As a result, fouling and blockages are avoided.