Patent Document ID: 9101092
Application ID: 13496626
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A square baler comprising: a control system; a baling chamber having a compression element configured for movement therein; an intake duct leading toward the baling chamber; a sensor for measuring the weight of completed bales, at least one density sensor configured for measuring a relative density of crop slices within at least one of the intake duct and an intake region of the baling chamber, and the control system configured to receive a signal from the density sensor; wherein the control system is determines a predicted weight of a slice in the at least one of the intake duct and the intake region of the baling chamber derived from the measured relative density values of the slice and a computed correlation; and wherein the correlation used by system is determined from the measured relative density of a number of slices in the at least one of the intake duct and the intake region of the baling chamber with the cumulative weight of the number of slices after they have been compressed and bound to form a completed bale.