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Harvesting machine

US9974233B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 23, 2015
Grant dateMay 22, 2018
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Expiry dateApr 23, 2035

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA01F12/46
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A harvesting machine includes: a crop tank; a measuring device that measures an amount of crop that has been stored in the crop tank; an unloader apparatus that discharges crop that has been stored in the crop tank; a device control part that executes precise measurement oriented device setting processing; a measurement control part including a precise measurement execution part that performs, precise measurement which involves the precise measurement oriented device setting processing, and a simplified measurement execution part that executes, simplified measurement; an operational instruction processing part that outputs a precise measurement instruction and a simplified measurement instruction in response to an operation performed by a manual operation device; and a measurement result recording part that rewrites a simplified measurement result recorded based on a preceding simplified measurement instruction, with a precise measurement result that is based on a succeeding precise measurement instruction.

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