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Turf Maintenance System

a technology for maintenance systems and turf, applied in lawn mowers, agricultural tools and machines, instruments, etc., can solve problems such as tine damage and tine damag

Inactive Publication Date: 2020-12-24
SMARTERRA LLC
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The patent describes a turf aeration system that includes a smart tine assembly with a damage sensing system. The system can detect when the tine is damaged and will automatically send a signal to a remote location, such as a turf maintenance machine or an operator display. The tine can be bent, broken, or damaged in other ways. The system can also allow an operator to manually raise or disable the turf aeration system in response to the damaged tine signal. The technical effect of this invention is to improve the efficiency and safety of the turf aeration process by detecting and responding to damage to the tine assembly in a timely manner.

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The tine may be damaged when the tine is bent.
The tine may be damaged when the tine is broken.

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[0019]Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown turf maintenance machine 10 that may be used to maintain turf (e.g., turf 12) on a commercial / professional level. As is known in the art, examples of turf maintenance machine 10 may include but are not limited to products produced by companies such as Kubota™, John Deere™, Cub Cadet™, Husqvarna™, Exmark™ and Toro™.

[0020]Turf maintenance machine 10 may include moveable platform 14 configured to move turf maintenance machine 10 within an area to be maintained. Examples of such an area to be maintained may include but are not limited to any areas that include turf that must be maintained (e.g., golf courses, parks, baseball / football / soccer fields, and sport stadiums & arenas).

[0021]Moveable platform 14 may include any kind of propulsion / steering system that enables the movement of turf maintenance machine 10 within the area to be maintained. For example, moveable platform 14 may include one or more of a belt-actuated pro...

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Abstract

A smart tine assembly includes: a tine configured to aerate turf; and a damage sensing system configured to: sense when the tine is damaged, and generate a damaged tine signal.

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RELATED APPLICATION(S)[0001]This application claims the benefit of the following: U.S. Provisional Application Nos. 62 / 864,799, filed on 21 Jun. 2019; 62 / 915,327, filed on 15 Oct. 2019; 62 / 915,369, file on 15 Oct. 2019; 62 / 915,384, filed on 15 Oct. 2019; and 62 / 946,128, filed on 10 Dec. 2019, their entire contents of which are each incorporated herein by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]This disclosure relates to turf maintenance systems and, more particularly, to turf aeration systems.BACKGROUND[0003]Prior to the turf aeration process, a significant amount of time and energy must be expended in an effort to prepare the grounds for aeration. The reason for such prep work is to ensure that expensive, subterranean irrigation equipment is not damaged as the aeration equipment passes in close proximity to the subterranean irrigation equipment.[0004]Currently, the operator of the aeration equipment must manually raise and lower the aeration equipment to avoid damaging such subterranean irr...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A01B45/02A01B71/02
CPCA01B45/023A01B71/02G08C17/02A01B76/00A01G25/09A01B45/02G01D21/02A01G25/00G01V15/00A01B69/008
Inventor FRODIGH, PETER T.POWELL, MATTHEW D.
Owner SMARTERRA LLC
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