Farm Work Machine, Farm Work Management Method, Farm Work Management Program, and Recording Medium Recording the Farm Work Management Program

• US 20150351320A1
• Filed: 09/09/2013
• Published: 12/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kubota Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kubota Corporation
• Inventors: Takahara, Kazuhiro, Ikeda, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,521,806 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 76/00 Parts, details or accessories of agricultural machines or implements, not provided for in groups A01B51/00 - A01B75/00
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 41/127 Control or measuring arrangements specially adapted for combines
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/02 Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining

Abstract

A farm work machine (1) operable in a variety of work modes includes a communications unit (5) that reads farm work information for a selected target farm work sector from a database of a management center storing the farm work information for each farm work sector, a work mode setting unit (46) which sets work modes, a work mode comparison unit (53) that effects comparison between a set work mode set by the work mode setting unit and a registered work mode included in farm work information read from the database, and a display data generation unit (55) that generates display data in order to display, on a display, the read farm work information and a result of the comparison effected by the mode comparison unit.

Claims

1. A farm work machine operable in a variety of work modes, comprising:

a communication unit that can read farm work information for a selected target farm work sector from a database of a management center storing the farm work information for each farm work sector, with using a communication network;

a work mode setting unit that sets work modes;

a work mode comparison unit that effects comparison between a set work mode set by the work mode setting unit and a registered work mode included in farm work information read from the database; and

a display data generation unit that generates display data based on the farm work information and the result of the comparison in order to display the farm work information read by the communication unit and result of the comparison effected by the mode comparison unit on a display.

2. The farm work machine according to claim 1, further comprising:

a mode change instruction outputting unit for outputting a mode change instruction for changing the set work mode or the registered work mode.

3. The farm work machine according to claim 1, wherein selection of the target farm work section is made based on a current position detected by a position detection unit.

4. The farm work machine according to claim 1, further comprising:

a work evaluation information outputting unit for outputting evaluation information of the farm work effected in the work mode at the time of completion of the farm work;

wherein the display data generation unit generates display data based on the evaluation information to display contents of the evaluation information on the monitor.

5. The farm work machine according to claim 4, wherein the evaluation information is sent via the communication unit to the management center.

6. The farm work machine according to claim 1, further comprising:

a guide information storage unit for storing implement operation guide information for each work mode; and

an implement monitoring unit for monitoring a condition of a utility implement;

wherein in accordance with an instruction from the implement monitoring unit, implement operation guide information for an implement as a monitoring target is read from the guide information storage section and provided to the display data generation unit.

7. The farm work machine according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit comprises a mobile communication terminal that is operable to perform data communication with a communication unit included in the farm work machine, and the work mode comparison unit and the display data generation unit are included in the mobile communication terminal.

13. The farm work machine according to claim 1, further comprising a work evaluation information outputting step for outputting evaluation information of the farm work effected in the work mode at the time of completion of this farm work.

8. A farm work management program provided in a mobile communication terminal that is operable to perform data communication with a farm work machine used for carrying out a farm work in a work mode set by a work mode setting unit among a variety of work modes, wherein the farm work management program causes a computer to execute:

a farm work information acquisition function capable of reading farm work information for a selected target farm work sector from a database of a management center storing the farm work information for each farm work sector via a communication network;

a work mode comparison function that effects comparison between a set work mode set by a work mode setting unit and a registered work mode included in farm work information read from the database; and

a display data generation function that generates display data based on the farm work information and result of the comparison in order to display the read farm work information and the result of comparison on a display.

9. A recording medium recording a farm work management program provided in a mobile communication terminal that is operable to perform data communication with a farm work machine used for carrying out a farm work in a work mode set by a work mode setting unit among a variety of work modes, wherein the farm work management program is recorded in the recording medium in order to cause a computer to execute:

a farm work information acquisition function capable of reading farm work information for a selected target farm work sector from a database of a management center storing the farm work information for each farm work sector via a communication network;

a work mode comparison function that effects comparison between a set work mode set by a work mode setting unit and a registered work mode included in farm work information read from the database; and

a display data generation function that generates display data based on the farm work information and result of the comparison in order to display the read farm work information and the result of comparison on a display.

10. A farm work management method effected with using a mobile communication terminal that is operable to perform data communication with a farm work machine used for carrying out a farm work in a work mode set by a work mode setting unit among a variety of work modes, the method comprising:

a farm work information acquisition step for reading farm work information for a selected target farm work sector from a database of a management center storing the farm work information for each farm work sector via a communication network;

a work mode comparison step for effecting comparison between a set work mode set by a work mode setting unit and a registered work mode included in farm work information read from the database; and

a display data generation step for generating display data based on the farm work information and result of the comparison in order to display the read farm work information and the result of comparison on a display.

11. The farm work management method according to claim 10, further comprising:

a mode change instruction outputting step for outputting a mode change instruction for changing the set work mode or the registered work mode.

12. The farm work management method according to claim 10, wherein selection of the target farm work section is made based on a current position detected by a position detection unit.