US 12,457,930 B2
Combine harvester with tilted crop material sensor arrangement
Bart M.A. Missotten, Herent (BE); Arno Leenknegt, Hooglede (BE); Dré W.J. Jongmans, Klundert (NL); Thomas Mahieu, Vleteren (BE); Bart Lenaerts, Zutendaal (BE); Yuanyuan Li, Leuven (BE); Lucas Deruyter, Gits (BE); and Frederik Tallir, Esen (BE)
Assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US)
Filed by CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US)
Filed on Jun. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/835,149.
Claims priority of application No. 21178625 (EP), filed on Jun. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0394925 A1, Dec. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. A01D 41/127 (2006.01); A01D 41/12 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A01B 79/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/648 (2024.01); G05D 1/689 (2024.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01)
CPC A01D 41/1271 (2013.01) [A01D 41/1243 (2013.01); G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); A01B 79/005 (2013.01); G05D 1/648 (2024.01); G05D 1/689 (2024.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30128 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30188 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30242 (2013.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A combine harvester comprising:
a threshing and separating system;
a crop material sensor arrangement comprising a crop material sensor configured to monitor crop material downstream of the threshing and separating system, and a sensor window through which the crop material sensor monitors the crop material,
wherein the sensor window is arranged in a flow path of the crop material, wherein the crop material flows onto and past the sensor window as the crop material flows along the flow path, wherein the sensor window is arranged non-parallel to the flow path, wherein an acute angle is formed between a plane defined by the sensor window and a tangential projection that extends from a component of the combine harvester that influences the flow path immediately upstream of the sensor window.