Patent ID: 8626405
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: F01N,F02D,Y02A,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A monitoring device for at least one auxiliary assembly, wherein the auxiliary assembly affects an exhaust-gas quality of an internal combustion engine and consumes a resource in order to attain a desired quality of exhaust gas, the monitoring device comprising at least one sensor measuring a variable related to the resource, a crop flow sensor for sensing a crop flow in an agricultural vehicle in which the mounting device may be installed, and an arithmetic unit for estimating a current quantity of the resource on a basis of the variable measured by the at least one sensor, wherein the arithmetic unit furthermore calculates and indicates an operating capacity of the internal combustion engine that remains before the resource is depleted and, based on sensed crop flow and reference to a mean of past measured crop flows, converts a remaining run time to a remaining crop quantity that may be harvested before the resource consumed by the auxiliary unit is depleted.