Combine harvester

US9756786B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Christoph Heitmann · Warendorf, DE
• Andreas Wilken · Bissendorf, DE
• Joachim Baumgarten · Beelen, DE
• Sebastian Neu · Bad Laer, DE
• Christoph Bussmann · Harsewinkel, DE
• Henner Voecking · Rietberg, DE
• Stefan Teroerde · Warendorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 29, 2016
• Grant date: Sep 12, 2017
• Expiry date: Mar 29, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B17/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A combine harvester has a threshing unit for threshing picked-up crop to obtain grain, a driver assistance system for controlling the threshing unit which has a memory for storing data and a computing unit for processing the data stored in the memory. A functional system model for at least a portion of the combine harvester is stored in the memory. The computing unit is designed to carry out an autonomous determination of at least one threshing-unit parameter on a basis of the system model and, for depicting functional interrelationships, at least one family of characteristics (A-J) is assigned to at least one harvesting-process parameter. The at least one harvesting-process parameter is defined as an output variable of the at least one family of characteristics (A-J).