US 12,349,627 B2
Harvesting device for plucking or cutting fruit based on pedicel angle
Keiichiro Shimomura, Hyogo (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/815,269.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-138982 (JP), filed on Aug. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0060138 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A01D 46/24 (2006.01); A01D 46/30 (2006.01)
CPC A01D 46/24 (2013.01) [A01D 46/30 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A harvesting device comprising:
an upper harvest ring that an object grown on a plant is to be inserted into;
a lower harvest ring that is disposed below the upper harvest ring and that the object is to be inserted into;
a cutting blade;
and
a controller,
wherein the controller determines one of a first harvest operation and a second harvest operation, the first harvest operation includes a cutting operation by the cutting blade, and the second harvest operation includes a plucking operation by the upper harvest ring and the lower harvest ring, and wherein the controller determines the one of the first harvest operation and the second harvest operation based on an angle of a peduncle of the object.