Patent №
US 8,909,436
Granted
2014-12-09
Filed 2012
Owner
KINZE MANUFACTURING, INC.
Lab
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AI components
1
kr
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
13457577
Agricultural devices, row unit adjustment systems, and methods of adjusting a depth of a furrow are provided. In some aspects, an agricultural device is adapted to plant seeds and includes a frame, a furrow opener coupled to the frame and adapted to cut a furrow including a depth, a sensor adapted to sense a characteristic associated with planting seeds and generate a signal associated with the sensed characteristic, and a processing unit receiving the signal associated with the sensed characteristic. The depth of the furrow is adjustable based on the signal associated with the sensed characteristic. Such characteristic may be a characteristic of the soil, a force applied to the agricultural device, or a position of a portion of the agricultural device.
AI classification
Ownership
KINZE MANUFACTURING, INC.
assignment · 284250751
Assignors
ACHEN, COURTNEY N., BACHMAN, MARVIN L., STEVENSON, VAUGHAN G.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.