Outdoor working automating system

• US 5,438,817 A
• Filed: 10/06/1993
• Issued: 08/08/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Sakura Rubber Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Nakamura, Tetsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): MELIUS, TERRY L
• Application Number:
  US08/132,645
• Time in Patent Office: 671 Days
• Field of Search: 56/10.2 A, 56/10.2 R, 56/DIG. 7, 56/DIG. 15, 111/911
• US Class Current: 56/10.20A
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 69/008 automatic
• CPC Class Codes: A01B 79/005 Precision agriculture
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 111/911 Rice
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 56/07 Remote control implement
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 56/15 Condition responsive

Abstract

An outdoor working automating system includes a rice reaper having a position detecting unit for detecting a position by receiving radio waves from a GPS satellite and a control unit for controlling the position of the rice reaper so that the position traces predetermined route data, and a rice transplanter having a position detecting unit for detecting a position by receiving radio waves from the GPS satellite and a memory for storing the detected position. The outdoor working automating system causes the memory to store a route that the rice transplanter takes during rice transplanting, and causes the rice reaper to perform rice reaping automatically by using the position data stored in the memory as the route data of the rice reaper.

Claims

1. An outdoor working automating system comprising;

a rice reaper including position detecting means for detecting a current position, and control means for controlling the position of said rice reaper so that the current position detected by said position detecting means traces a route data;

a rice transplanter including position detecting means for detecting a current position, and storage means for storing the current position detected by said position detecting means; and

means for causing said external storage means to store a route that said rice transplanter takes in rice transplanting, and causing said rice reaper to perform rice reaping automatically by using the position data stored in said storage means as said route data of said rice transplanter.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein said position detecting means detects a position by receiving radio waves from a GPS satellite.

3. An outdoor working automating system comprising;

a rice reaper including position detecting means for detecting a current position, control means for controlling the position of said rice reaper so that the current position detected by said position detecting means traces a route data, and transmitting/receiving means for performing data transmission/reception to/from a central control facility;

a rice transplanter including position detecting means for detecting a current position, and transmitting/receiving means for performing data transmission/reception to/from said central control facility;

a central control facility including transmitting/receiving means for performing data transmission/reception, a control unit for systematically controlling one or a plurality of rice transplanting and reaping operations, and storage means for storing various data; and

means for transmitting a route that said rice transplanter takes in rice transplanting to said central control facility to cause said storage means of said central control facility to store the route, and causing said rice reaper to perform rice reaping automatically by transmitting the position data stored in said storage means to said rice reaper as said route data of said rice reaper.

4. A system according to claim 3, wherein said position detecting means detects a position by receiving radio waves from a GPS satellite.

5. A system according to claim 3, wherein said central control facility has a control function for storing rice transplanting information of a plurality of rice fields and controlling a plurality of reapers to operate simultaneously or continuously in said plurality of rice fields, thereby performing rice reaping.

6. An outdoor working automating system comprising:

an agricultural implement including position detecting means for detecting a current position, and control means for controlling the position of said agricultural implement so that the current position detected by said position detecting means traces predetermined route data; and

means for measuring the shape of a rice field in advance to automatically generate rice field shape data as the route data, and causing said agricultural implement to automatically perform agricultural operations by controlling the position of said agricultural implement automatically.

7. A system according to claim 6, wherein said position detecting means detects a position by receiving radio waves from a GPS satellite.

8. A system according to claim 6, wherein said agricultural implement is one of a rice transplanter, a rice reaper, and an agricultural implement used before rice transplanting.

9. An outdoor working automating system comprising:

an agricultural implement including position detecting means for detecting a current position, control means for controlling the position of said agricultural implement so that the current position detected by said position detecting means traces predetermined route data, and transmitting/receiving means for performing data transmission/reception; and

a central control facility including transmitting/receiving means for performing data transmission/reception, a control unit for systematically controlling rice transplanting, and storage means for storing various data,

wherein the shapes of a plurality of rice fields are measured in advance, and said central control facility includes means for transmitting the rice field shape data as the route data to a plurality of agricultural implements to cause said agricultural implements to perform agricultural operations in said plurality of rice fields automatically.

10. A system according to claim 9, wherein said position detecting means detects a position by receiving radio waves from a GPS satellite.

11. A system according to claim 9, wherein said agricultural implement is one of a rice transplanter, a rice reaper, and an agricultural implement used before rice transplanting.