On-board computer system having two operating modes

• US 6,856,878 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2002
• Issued: 02/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Deere & Company
• Original Assignee: Deere & Company
• Inventors: Stankewitz, Britta, Ehinger, Peter, Bischoff, Lutz, Beck, Folker, Braunhardt, Klaus
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TAN QUANG
• Application Number:
  US10/322,823
• Publication Number:
  US 20030130766A1
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 701/50, 701/1, 56/102.R, 56/102.A, 56/102.H, 56/108
• US Class Current: 701/50
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 63/00 Lifting or adjusting devices or arrangements for agricultural machines or implements lifting mechanisms for the cutter-bar of a mower A01D34/24; adjusting devices for the cutter-bar of a mower A01D34/28; constructional features of lifting devices per se B66F
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 41/127 Control or measuring arrangements specially adapted for combines
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/0063 Manual parameter input, manual setting means, manual initialising or calibrating means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2300/158 Harvesters

Abstract

An on-board computer system for a work vehicle having an actuator. The computer system comprises an electronic control unit that is connected to and controls the actuator, a display unit and an input unit. The display unit displays operating parameters of the work vehicle. Through the input unit the operator inputs operating parameters of the work vehicle. The control unit transmits control signals to the actuator and can be operated selectively in a first operating mode and in a second operating mode. In the first operating mode the control unit displays a greater number of operating parameters that can be changed by the input unit than in the second operating mode.

Claims

1. An on-board computer system for a work vehicle, comprising an electronic control unit that is connected to an actuator, a display unit and an input unit, the display unit can be operated to display operating parameters of the work vehicle, the input unit is arranged to input operating parameters of the work vehicle by en operator and the control unit is arranged to transmit control signals to the actuator and to be operated selectively in a first operating mode and in a second operating mode, wherein in the first operating mode the control unit displays a greater number of operating parameters that can be changed by the input unit than in the second operating mode and wherein the operating parameters can be changed in both the first and second operating modes by the input unit.

2. An on-board computer system as defined by claim 1 wherein the control unit receives operator information from the operator and the control unit selects the operating mode based on the operator information.

3. An on-board computer system as defined by claim 2 wherein at least some of the operating parameters that can be changed by the input unit that are displayed are permanently stored in memory.

4. An on-board computer system as defined by claim 3 wherein at least some of the operating parameters that can be changed by the input unit that are displayed are provided as input.

5. An on-board computer system as defined by claim 2 wherein at least some of the operating parameters that can be changed by the input unit that are displayed are provided as input.

6. An on-board computer system as defined by claim 1 wherein the display unit that can be supplied with data that can be recalled from memories with different addresses, where the addresses of the particular memory are a function of a language that can be selected.

7. An on-board computer system as defined by claim 1 wherein the display unit is colored, and that the color of the particular indicated operating parameter is a function of its relative importance.

8. An on-board computer system for an agricultural harvesting machine, comprising an electronic control unit that is connected to an actuator for controlling a crop processing assembly, a display unit end an input unit, the display unit can be operated to display operating parameters of the harvesting machine, the input unit is arranged to input operating parameters of the harvesting machine by an operator and the control unit is arranged to transmit control signals to the actuator and to be operated selectively in a first operating mode and in a second operating mode, wherein in the first operating mode the control unit displays a greater number of operating parameters that can be changed by the input unit than in the second operating mode and wherein the operating parameters can be changed in both the first and second operating modes by the input unit.

9. An on-board computer system as defined by claim 8 wherein the agricultural harvesting machine harvests various types of grain and information as to the type of grain being harvested is provided as an input, and that the operating parameters being displayed are a function of the type of grain being harvested.

10. An on-board computer system as defined by claim 9 wherein the control unit receives operator information from the operator and the control unit selects the operating mode based on the operator information.