US 12,284,944 B2
Harvesting machine with draper using characteristic diagrams
Joachim Baumgarten, Beelen (DE); Andreas Wilken, Bissendorf (DE); Dennis Neitemeier, Lippetal (DE); Bastian Bormann, Gütersloh (DE); Sebastian Spiekermann, Ostbevern (DE); and Daniel Irmer, Herzebrock-Clarholz (DE)
Assigned to CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH, Harsewinkel (DE)
Filed by CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH, Harsewinkel (DE)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/953,816.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 125 099.4 (DE), filed on Sep. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0099974 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. A01D 41/14 (2006.01)
CPC A01D 41/141 (2013.01) [A01D 41/142 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An agricultural harvesting machine with a harvesting header designed as a draper for cutting and picking up harvested material, the agricultural harvesting machine comprising:
a driver assistance system comprising at least one memory and at least one computing device in communication with the memory, the at least one memory is configured to store data and one or more characteristic diagrams, the at least one computing device configured to process the data saved in the memory;
wherein the draper comprises at least one central belt configured to convey harvested material to one or both of a feed roller or an intake channel of an inclined conveyor, at least one left side transverse conveyor belt positioned on a left side and at least one right side transverse conveyor belt positioned on a right side of the at least one central belt for conveying the harvested material to the at least one central belt, the at least one central belt, the at least one left side transverse conveyor belt and the at least one right side transverse conveyor belt being positioned behind a cutter bar in a direction of travel, and a belt cutting mechanism configured to accommodate a reel, wherein the at least one central belt is positioned between the left side and the right side;
wherein the driver assistance system, in working with the draper, comprises an automatic draper, the automatic draper comprising a characteristic diagram controller configured to:
optimize, using the one or more characteristic diagrams, one or more operating parameters of the draper; and
specify the one or more operating parameters to the draper in order for the draper to automatically implement the one or more operating parameters for controlling one or more of the at least one central belt, the at least one left side transverse conveyor belt, the at least one right side transverse conveyor belt, the cutter bar, the belt cutting mechanism, or the reel;
wherein the one or more characteristic diagrams is configured to describe a relationship between a vibration coefficient quality parameter, a layer height parameter indicative of harvested material throughput, and a central belt speed operating parameter; and
wherein a control characteristic curve assigned to the one or more characteristic diagrams lies in a region of a minimum vibration coefficient.