Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Load fill sensor system for grain storage vessels
- Patent Title (中): 谷物储存容器的填充传感器系统
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Application No.: US14700602Application Date: 2015-04-30
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Publication No.: US09580192B2Publication Date: 2017-02-28
- Inventor: Shawn L. Gengerke
- Applicant: LEADING EDGE INDUSTRIES, INC.
- Applicant Address: US SD Groton
- Assignee: S7 IP Holdings, LLC
- Current Assignee: S7 IP Holdings, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US SD Groton
- Agency: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.
- Agent Thomas J. Nikolai
- Main IPC: G08B21/00
- IPC: G08B21/00 ; B65B1/30 ; B65B1/32 ; G01D7/00 ; B65B1/48 ; G01F23/00 ; G01F23/292

Abstract:
A system for remotely indicating the level of grain being loaded into a grain trailer. Plural vertically oriented sensing strips are affixed to a trailer's hopper(s) sidewall of the trailer's hopper(s) at spaced locations. Signals from transducer elements on the strips are delivered to an electronics module on the trailer's forward wall. The electronics module includes a multiplexer for sampling the state of the strip transducers and a wireless transmitter for relaying the state data to a receiver and microprocessor in the cab of a towing vehicle. The microprocessor presents a visual display of height reached by the grain in a hopper as loading continues. Following system calibration where a pixel count of the load being displayed and a measured net weight of the load are determined using a scale, a calibration factor corresponding to the weight-per-pixel is stored for use in computing the weight and volume of subsequent loads.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150259084A1 LOAD FILL SENSOR SYSTEM FOR GRAIN STORAGE VESSELS Public/Granted day:2015-09-17
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