Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pneumatic seed delivery system with supplemental airflow
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Application No.: US16555574Application Date: 2019-08-29
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Publication No.: US10993366B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Christopher Schoeny , Chad M. Johnson
- Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
- Applicant Address: US PA New Holland
- Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
- Current Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US PA New Holland
- Agent Rebecca L. Henkel; Rickard K. DeMille
- Main IPC: A01C7/10
- IPC: A01C7/10 ; A01C7/04 ; A01C7/20 ; A01C7/08

Abstract:
A pneumatic seed delivery system is provided for use with planter for row-crop planting an agricultural field in which the pneumatic seed delivery system may use high pressure air to accelerate seeds that are singulated from a seed meter to match ground speed when planting. The pneumatic seed delivery system includes an air accelerator arranged downstream of a release location of the seed meter. The air accelerator may define a pneumatic device such as an air conveyor or air amplifier that merges a primary airflow with a controllable supplemental airflow to provide a correspondingly controllable combined airflow that carries and accelerates the singulated seeds so that the seeds can be released with a rearward horizontal seed velocity component that approximates a forward ground speed of the planter to reduce seed tumble.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190380261A1 Pneumatic Seed Delivery System Public/Granted day:2019-12-19
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