ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,436, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).
"Baler with bearing health monitor" was invented by Nolan D. Eakins (Bloomfield, Iowa) and Bart A. Coffman (Eddyville, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A baler including an accelerometer coupled to the frame and configured to output a bulk signal representative of the total vibrational power in the frame, and a controller in operable communication with the accelerometer, where the controller is configured to deconstruct the bulk output signal provided by the accelerometer into at least a first component signal and a second component signal, and where the contr...