Patent ID: 11930737
Assignee: CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA LLC
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 10:
11. A method of determining a yield of an agricultural windrower traveling across a field when producing double or triple windrows, the method being performed by a controller and comprising:
when a merger system of the agricultural windrower is in a non-working position, depositing the collected crop material in first strips on the field without using a conveyor of the merger system;
when the merger system of the agricultural windrower is in a working position:
conveying collected crop material with the conveyor of the merger system and depositing the collected crop material in second strips on the field, the conveyor including an endless belt, one or two of the second strips being adjacent a respective one of the first strips to provide the double or triple windrows;
acquiring signals from a sensor as the collected crop material is conveyed by the endless belt of the conveyor; and
determining a mass of the collected crop material conveyed by the conveyor and deposited in the second strips on the field based at least partially on the signals;

determining a crop yield based at least partially on the mass of the collected crop material of the second strips and a harvested acreage of the field to account for the collected crop material included in the first strips and the second strips; and
outputting a yield signal corresponding to the crop yield of the collected crop material deposited in the first strips and the second strips on the field.