US 12,213,398 B2
Method for determining the influence of the inclination of an agricultural spreader on the distribution pattern
Florian Rahe, Lotte (DE); Hubertus Kleine-Hartlage, Bad Iburg (DE); Stefan Jan Johannaber, Lienen (DE); and Jörn Albert, Osnabrück (DE)
Assigned to AMAZONEN-WERKE H. DREYER SE & CO. KG, Hasbergen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/272,059
Filed by AMAZONEN-WERKE H. DREYER SE & CO. KG, Hasbergen (DE)
PCT Filed Aug. 27, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/072777
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/043694, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 102018120948.7 (DE), filed on Aug. 28, 2018; and application No. 19401031 (EP), filed on Aug. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0337722 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A01C 17/00 (2006.01); A01C 5/06 (2006.01); A01C 7/04 (2006.01); G01C 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01C 17/008 (2013.01) [A01C 5/06 (2013.01); A01C 7/04 (2013.01); G01C 9/00 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for detecting the influence of the inclination of an agricultural spreading device on the distribution of material to be spread, the agricultural spreading device comprising a metering system for the material to be spread and at least one rotatable distribution disc onto which the material to be spread is dispensed via the metering system, the method comprising:
receiving discharge information on spreading processes from agricultural spreading devices by an analysis device; and
ascertaining a relationship between a dispensing point of spreading material onto at least one distribution disc of an agricultural spreading device and a distribution of material to be spread, said relationship depending on the inclination of the agricultural spreading device, by the analysis device on the basis of the received discharge information,
wherein the dispensing point is the region where the material to be spread hits the at least one distribution disc,
the method further comprising detecting discharge information on a spreading process by one or more agricultural spreading device;
wherein the detection of discharge information on a spreading process by one or more agricultural spreading devices comprises at least one of the following steps:
continuously detecting the inclination of the respective agricultural spreading device during the respective spreading process:
continuously detecting the adjusted dispensing point of material to be spread onto at least one distribution disc of the respective agricultural spreading device during the respective spreading_process: or
continuously detecting the distribution of material to be spread during the respective spreading process.