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Combine harvester

US9756787B2 · kind B2 · utility

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30Claims

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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
Christopher Vieregge · Dörentrup, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 30, 2016
Grant date	Sep 12, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 30, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG05B17/02
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A combine harvester has a threshing unit for threshing picked-up crop to obtain grain and a driver assistance system for controlling the threshing unit. The driver assistance system includes a memory for storing data and a computing unit for processing the data stored in the memory. The threshing unit, together with the driver assistance system, forms an automated threshing unit, in that a plurality of selectable harvesting-process strategies is stored in the memory and in that, in order to implement the particular selected harvesting-process strategy, the computing device autonomously determines at least one machine parameter, for example, a threshing-unit parameter, and specifies the parameter to the threshing unit.

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