APPARATUS FOR MONITORING OPERATION OF SOIL-TILLING IMPLEMENT (VARIANTS) Russian patent published in 2021 - IPC A01B63/14 G01N23/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: apparatus for monitoring the operation of a soil-tilling implement (variants) relates to agriculture, namely to apparatuses for controlling tillage depth. The apparatus according to the variant 1, rigidly fixed on the frame thereof with operating members and enclosed in a body containing a microcontroller (MC) providing continuous reception of data incoming from connected sensors with high accuracy and measurement frequency, and non-volatile memory with a volume allowing to record and save the described data, additionally contains a communication unit with a remote computer, a real-time clock unit, a position in space sensor, an RFID-tag reading unit, an ROM unit for storing data encryption parameters and identifiers of the proposed apparatus, a power supply unit, electrically connected with the MC unit and arranged on a printed circuit board fixed within the body of the apparatus. The apparatus therein contains a tillage depth sensor constituting an ultrasonic range finder, fixed on the body of the apparatus and electrically connected with the microcontroller. The RFID-tag reading unit therein is configured to receive a signal from the RFID-tag via a bidirectional radio channel. The apparatus according to the variant 2 differs from the variant 1 in that it does not contain an ROM, and the variant 3 does not contain an ROM and an RFID-tag.

EFFECT: invention allows improving accuracy of monitoring tillage depth in real time and providing possibility to transmit information in real time to a remote computer for processing and storage.

12 cl, 6 dwg