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  • System and method for detecting combine rotor slugging
    Patent number: 7632179
    Abstract: A system to sense incipient slugging of a rotor by sensing a rotor speed signal, an engine speed signal and a first hydraulic motor speed signal, combining the rotor speed signal and the engine speed signal to provide a second hydraulic motor speed signal, and determining incipient slugging based upon the first and second speed signals, and thereby preventing potential damage to threshing components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: John G. Brome, Yun Ren Ho, Nicholas Laufenberg