Patents by Inventor Joao Francisco De Mendonca Fava

Joao Francisco De Mendonca Fava has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6959527
    Abstract: A method of relative positioning between agricultural machines and crops on their planting rows having the steps which are performed in real time and during a harvest work and include determining a positioning of each tree top on a trees row, a machine rotor column position, and simultaneously a traveling speed of an agricultural machine, sending tree positioning and machine speed data to a data processor, processing the data and controlling servo mechanisms that actuate actuators which, in turn, place one rotor column with stripping rods in accordance with a determined tree top position and format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Maquinas Agricolas Jacto S.A.
    Inventors: João Francisco De Mendonça Fava, Edson Lucio Domingues, Roy Scudder
  • Patent number: 6918239
    Abstract: For relative positioning between an agricultural machine and crops on their planting rows a sensor is arranged forwardly of a sensor of a rotor of an agricultural machine and at a distance which is at least equal to or greater than a top radius of trees to be worked with the radius being measured in a planting row direction, the tree top by the sensor to determine a rearward point, a forward point, a center point and a farthest transverse point from the center point of a tree top, and the rotor is adjusted to define a trajectory of the rotor center with respect to the points, whereupon the steps are repeated for each of the trees in the planting row to be worked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Maquinas Agricolas Jacto S.A.
    Inventors: João Francisco De Mendonça Fava, Edson Lucio Domingues, Roy Scudder
  • Publication number: 20040060272
    Abstract: For relative positioning between an agricultural machine and crops on their planting rows arranging a sensor is arranged forwardly of a sensor of a rotor of an agricultural machine and at a distance which is at least equal to or greater than a top radius of trees to be worked with the radius being measured in a planting row direction, the tree top by the sensor to determine a rearward point, a forward point, a center point and a farthest transverse point from the center point of a tree top, and the rotor is adjusted to define a trajectory of the rotor center with respect to the points, whereupon the steps are repeated for each of the trees in the planting row to be worked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventors: Joao Francisco De Mendonca Fava, Edson Lucio Domingues, Roy Scudder
  • Publication number: 20030226345
    Abstract: A method of relative positioning between agricultural machines and crops on their planting rows having the steps which are performed in real time and during a harvest work and include determining a positioning of each tree top on a trees row, a machine rotor column position, and simultaneously a traveling speed of an agricultural machine, sending tree positioning and machine speed data to a data processor, processing the data and controlling servo mechanisms that actuate actuators which, in turn, place one rotor column with stripping rods in accordance with a determined tree top position and format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Joao Francisco De Mendonca Fava, Edson Lucio Domingues, Roy Scudder