US 11,832,548 B2
Agricultural machine
Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Sakai (JP); Fumiya Yoshimura, Sakai (JP); and Ken Sakuta, Sakai (JP)
Assigned to KUBOTA CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Filed by KUBOTA CORPORATION, Osaka (JP)
Filed on Feb. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/672,740.
Application 17/672,740 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/032627, filed on Aug. 28, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-163353 (JP), filed on Sep. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0167545 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. A01B 69/00 (2006.01); A01B 79/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); A01B 69/04 (2006.01)
CPC A01B 69/008 (2013.01) [A01B 79/005 (2013.01); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05D 1/0276 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0201 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An agricultural machine comprising:
a traveling vehicle body capable of traveling;
a controller connected to a change reception switch and a display, the controller configured or programmed to:
create a planned traveling route for the traveling vehicle body in a work area where a working device provided on the traveling vehicle body performs work using a material;
set, outside the work area, a replenishment area where the material is replenished;
acquire a charge amount of the material loaded on the working device;
calculate a remaining amount of the material based on the charge amount and a material consumption of the material consumed by the working device;
set a replenishment position where the material is replenished in the replenishment area based on the remaining amount;
change the replenishment position when the change reception switch receives a change of the replenishment position;
create a turning route passing through the replenishment area from the work area and returning to the work area again;
set the replenishment position in a portion of the replenishment area corresponding to the turning route; and
set a changed position before the replenishment position in a traveling direction of the planned traveling route in the portion of the replenishment area corresponding to the turning route; wherein
the display is operable to display a changed position that is the changed replenishment position.