US 12,134,242 B2
Method for compacting a harvested material
Stefan Brocke, Mannheim (DE); and Norbert Fritz, Ilvesheim (DE)
Assigned to Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US)
Filed by DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, IL (US)
Filed on Jul. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/810,872.
Claims priority of application No. 102021119684.1 (DE), filed on Jul. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0034813 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B30B 15/26 (2006.01); A01F 25/16 (2006.01); A01F 25/18 (2006.01); E04H 7/22 (2006.01)
CPC B30B 15/26 (2013.01) [A01F 25/166 (2013.01); A01F 25/18 (2013.01); E04H 7/22 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for compacting a harvested material in a silo by an agricultural working machine, comprising:
determining via a control unit a density profile which represents a target density of the harvested material as a function of a silo position or a silo portion along a predetermined silo length of the silo;
controlling via the control unit a compaction work by a silo compaction device as a function of the density profile; and
controlling via the control unit a travel speed of the agricultural working machine during the compaction work as a function of the density profile,
wherein the control unit determines the density profile as a function of a comparison between an extraction rate and a target rate, wherein the extraction rate is dependent on a feed quantity for animals to be fed in an extraction time period from the silo, and wherein the target rate is determined independently of the feed quantity required for the same extraction time period from the silo.