| Deere and Company Patent applications |
| Patent application number | Title | Published |
| 20120279735 | BLADE PIVOT MECHANISM - A pivot mechanism for adjusting a blade on a work vehicle is provided. The pivot mechanism includes a bushing bolt fastened to a mounting bracket on the blade. The bushing bolt has a spherical portion fixedly positioned between coupling ends and configured to receive a bushing. The pivot mechanism further includes a cylinder coupled to the bushing bolt for controlling the position of the blade. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120261032 | LOAD SENSE AND HYDRAULIC PUMP MANAGEMENT - A tree harvester is disclosed that includes first and second hydraulic pumps for powering a harvesting head of the tree harvester. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120246977 | ROAD POSITION INDICATION FOR MOTOR GRADER SNOW PLOW - A motor grader is disclosed having a tracking system indicating the location of the motor grader relative to a desired snow plowing path. The tracking system may also indicate the location of prerecorded obstacles along the desired snow plowing path. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120103717 | INPUT CONTROL PATTERN - A control system for a construction vehicle, such as a motor grader, is provided. The control system includes a plurality of joysticks supported by an operator seat assembly of the motor grader. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20110311342 | THREE DIMENSIONAL FEATURE LOCATION FROM AN EXCAVATOR - A combination of location measurement apparatuses to measure in three dimensions the location of an excavator with respect to a job site, and to further measure the location of an excavated or a topographical feature with respect to the excavator by range finding from the excavator in proximity of the feature and contemporaneously recording measurement data on a computer. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110132185 | Variable Output Hydraulic Actuator System - Methods and apparatuses of generating a dynamic variable average flow applied by a hydraulic system of a vehicle. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110042159 | POWERTRAIN COOLING CIRCUIT - A vehicle, such as a loader, is disclosed. The vehicle includes a cooling system having a pump that communicates coolant to heat-generating components to be cooled by the coolant. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20100326746 | DRIVE QUAD MODULE - An combination including a harvester, a generator vehicle, and a transport vehicle including a chassis, a motor, a plurality of traction devices, and a control unit aligning the transport vehicle in relation to at least one of the harvester and a previous path of the harvester. A method of positioning a train of transport vehicles in relation to a path of the harvester. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20100106381 | BLADE SPEED CONTROL LOGIC - A construction vehicle is provided having a manual mode in which an operator provides manual inputs to control the movement of a blade to a location and an automatic mode in which a control moves the blade to a predetermined location. The speed of the movement of the blade in the automatic mode is scaled down from the speed of the blade in the manual mode. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100106373 | Manual Tracking Adjustment - A construction vehicle including methods and apparatus for operator directed electronic tracking adjustment. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100101684 | High Accumulation Tree Felling Head - A feller buncher is provided including a felling head having a gathering arm and an accumulation arm. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100084908 | AUTOMATED DUMP BODY TIP CONTROL FOR ADTS TO TIP MATERIAL WITH STABILITY AND SPREAD MATERIAL - An articulated vehicle is provided including a system for controlling the rate and stability of unloading of material supported by the articulated vehicle. | 04-08-2010 |