BAERT, Matthias,MISSOTTEN, Bart M. A.,VEIKLE, Eric,YODER, Denver R.
申请号:
WO2018EP56110
公开号:
WO2018219510(A1)
申请日:
2018.03.12
申请国别(地区):
世界知识产权组织国际局
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要:
An crop elevator (200) for a combine harvester is described. The crop elevator comprises an ascending section (250) and a descending section (260) and a housing (210) enclosing the ascending section (250) and the descending section (260). The elevator further comprises an elevator loop (230) arranged inside the housing (210) which comprises a plurality of paddles (220) for elevating a harvested crop. The elevator also comprises a weighing system configured to determine a weight of harvested crop that is present on at least one of the paddles during an ascending movement of the at least one of the paddles in the ascending section (250). The weighing system comprises a weight sensor (300) configured to output a weight signal representative of the weight of the harvested crop. The ascending section of the elevator comprises a measurement section (255), wherein the weighing system is configured to retrieve the weight signal when the at least one of the paddles is in the measurement section (255) of the elevator (