US 12,310,282 B2
Metering system of an agricultural machine
Simon Bulmahn, Westerstede (DE); and Hendrik Claussen, Hatten (DE)
Assigned to Amazonen-Werke H.Dreyer SE & Co., KG, Hasbergen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/632,759
Filed by Amazonen-Werke H. Dreyer SE & Co. KG, Hasbergen (DE)
PCT Filed May 28, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/064828
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/023409, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 121 150.6 (DE), filed on Aug. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0287224 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. A01C 7/10 (2006.01); A01C 7/04 (2006.01); A01C 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01C 7/102 (2013.01) [A01C 7/0443 (2023.05); A01C 21/005 (2013.01); A01C 7/046 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A metering_system of an agricultural machine comprising: a separating housing, a separating device of said metering system arranged in said separating housing, an associated seed storage chamber disposed on the separating side of said separating device in said separating housing, a storage container which is associated directly with said seed storage chamber of said separating housing, a partition wall which is arranged between said storage container and said seed storage chamber, at least one seed passage opening which is arranged in said partition wall, wherein a passage size of the at least one seed passage opening can be adjusted by at least one adjustable slide element of a slide by way of at least one adjustment element, wherein said at least one adjustment element of said adjustable slide element is configured as a motorized actuating element, in that said motorized actuating element is connected to an electronic on-board computer by way of a data transmission device, in particular a data line, in that data for adjusting the passage size of said passage opening determined by a slide position of said slide is saved and/or stored in at least one memory of said on-board computer and said motorized actuating element of said slide is actuatable and/or is actuated accordingly for adjusting the passage size of said passage opening.