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  • B60K—ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
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  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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Definitions

• the present application relates to a control device for an agricultural harvesting machine according to the preamble of claim 1. Furthermore, the present application relates to an agricultural harvesting machine according to the preamble of claim 13.
• the control device typically in a driver's cab of a
• the control device has at least one input device by means of which a user can enter information into the control device.
• information means any type of input, for example an input of data or commands.
• a typical input device may be formed by a keyboard, one or a plurality of switches, and / or a joystick.
• an input device may comprise a touch display, by means of which virtual switches or buttons are displayed and can be operated in a touch-sensitive manner.
• control device comprises at least one data processing system by means of which information can be processed. This can relate both to information that is entered by at least one input device by a user, as well as those that, for example by means of sensors on the harvester or their
• Working bodies In an agricultural harvester in the form of a combine harvester, one or more working organs are equipped with sensors which collect information and pass it on to the data processing system.
• the data processing system is able to process such information, for example, and pass it on to the user.
• control body comprises at least one
• Output device having at least one screen for optical output of
• the screen can be positioned in the most convenient field of view of the user, it is arranged on a cranked trained support arm, wherein the support arm is in turn fixed by means of a fixing means to the other control device.
• the support arm can be fixed to a housing of the control device, for example by means of a screw connection.
• the fixing means may be designed to be non-destructively detachable, so that the support arm in the presence of the fixing in a loose state relative to the rest of the control device is movable and thus can be removed, for example, from the control device altogether. In the presence of the fixative in a solid state, however, the support arm is fixed relative to the other control device.
• a control device of the type described above is already known in the art. Reference is made by way of example to US Pat. No. 6,715,269 B2. This describes a control device which is equipped with a cranked arm.
• the support arm has a fixing means in the form of a push button, by means of which the support arm can engage the other control device in operative combination with a complementary to the push button recess formed.
• a screen is arranged, wherein the support arm is designed to form an angle of about 90 ° cranked, so that a surface of the screen is oriented approximately vertically.
• the known control device is disadvantageous insofar as an adjustability of the screen is possible only within certain limits and also only by using a complex mechanism.
• the adjustability is of importance insofar as various users of the control device bring with them various personal preferences as well as various physical conditions which make adjustment of the screen desirable for better readability and / or visibility by the user.
• the present application is based on the object, a
• the underlying object is according to the invention by means of a
• the control device is characterized in that the support arm has at least one straight section, within which the support arm is both straight in itself and has an at least substantially, preferably completely, circular cross-section. Furthermore, the support arm cooperates with the at least one fixing means in such a way that, in the presence of the fixing means in its loose state, the support arm can be transferred starting from a first use position into a second use position. In this second use position, the support arm can be fixed by means of transfer of the fixing in its solid state, so that the support arm together the screen arranged thereon is fixed relative to the other control device.
• the screen can be set very conveniently by means of a combined movement and thus tailored to the personal preferences of each user. This is especially so far from
• the control device is finally created the possibility to adjust the screen with little effort and within a very short time, by means of the sliding movement in particular a distance between the screen and the user and by means of the rotational movement, in particular an orientation of the screen relative to the user are changeable.
• the latter can be used, for example, to rotate the screen in a free field of view of the user, in which a view of the screen is free of any obstacles.
• the straight section is oriented at least substantially horizontally, so that the support arm is displaceable both along a horizontal axis and about the horizontal axis.
• the horizontal axis with the central axis of the straight section is oriented at least substantially horizontally, so that the support arm is displaceable both along a horizontal axis and about the horizontal axis.
• the alignment of the straight section in the horizontal direction is particularly advantageous in terms of a displacement of the support arm, since in this way a displacement movement is completely in a change in the distance of the
• a lateral surface of the support arm at least in the straight section contourless, preferably smooth, is formed.
• the support arm is contour-free along its entire length.
• This embodiment of the lateral surface allows the support arm to be rotated continuously relative to the rest of the control device. This is due to the fact that the lateral surface in the absence of a contour can not be rotated only in discrete rotational angle positions relative to the at least one fixing means and finally fixed, but rather is continuously rotatable. The possibility for only discrete twisting would be given, for example, if the outer
• Cantilever surface of the support arm would be provided over the circumference with a toothing, wherein the teeth are at angular intervals of, for example, 20 ° to each other.
• the support arm could not be continuously rotated about the central axis of the straight section, but only in 20 ° increments.
• Design of the lateral surface is therefore advantageous because it allows a stepless rotation of the support arm in a particularly simple manner.
• the control device further ausgestaltend the support arm is formed by a cranked round tube having at least two straight sections. These straight sections each have a central axis, which are aligned relative to each other twisted due to the crank of the support arm, that is together include an angle. This angle depends on a Kröpfungswinkel the crank of the support arm, which may for example be in the range between 20 ° and 80 °, preferably between 30 ° and 50 °. It is understood that the second straight section, which is considered starting from the at least one fixing means beyond the crank, preferably a minimum length of 20 cm, more preferably at least 30 cm, so that a circular path on which a at one End of the second
• Straight section arranged screen moves in the course of a rotation of the support arm about a central axis of the first straight section, having a corresponding minimum radius. This ensures that a movement of the screen in the room due to the rotation of the support arm can take a certain amount, while at a very short design of the second straight section of the screen could be moved only on a circular path with a correspondingly small radius. The latter would correspondingly deteriorate a mobility of the screen in the room and thus adjustability of its position.
• crank has a
• Kröpfungswinkel in the range between 10 ° and 70 °, preferably between 20 ° and 60 °, more preferably between 30 ° and 50 °, on.
• center axes of two straight sections of a correspondingly formed support arm are arranged rotated relative to one another by corresponding angles.
• Such a configuration of the crank is advantageous in terms of convenient positioning of the screen relative to the user.
• the arm comprises two straight sections, it may continue from
• the one of the two straight sections with the at least one fixing means and the other straight section with the screen is particularly advantageous if the one of the two straight sections with the at least one fixing means and the other straight section with the screen.
• the screen is arranged at an end remote from the fixing means of the support arm, so that a movement of the support arm relative to the other control device has the greatest possible impact on an absolute movement of the screen in the room. In this way it is achieved that a movement of the support arm a comprehensive
• a force pair can be received, that with a spaced arrangement of the fixing means relative to each other the inclusion of a
• the control device further ausgestaltend surrounds the at least one fixing means the support arm locally.
• a configuration is given, for example, in execution of a respective fixing means in the form of a mounting clamp, which encloses the support arm.
• a fixing means it is particularly easy to release a movement of the support arm relative to the rest of the control device and to prevent vice versa.
• Control device is the screen as such, at least one joint connected to the support arm, so that the screen relative to the support arm
• the joint comprises a plurality of degrees of freedom, so that a pivoting of the screen relative to the support arm about a plurality of mutually linearly independent joint axes is made possible.
• the joint allows a pivoting of the screen at least about a horizontal axis, advantageously further about a vertical axis. In this way, it is all the easier to align the screen relative to the respective users of the control device.
• the underlying object is further achieved according to the invention by means of an agricultural harvester with the features of claim 13.
• This includes according to the invention in their cab at least one control device according to the type described above.
• FIG. 1 shows a cross section through a harvester according to the invention
• FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of a control device according to the invention
• Fig. 3 A perspective view of the control device according to Figure 2, but from a different angle and
• FIG. 4 shows a plan view of the control device according to FIG. 2.
• FIGS. 1 to 4 An embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 4 includes a control device 1 installed on an agricultural harvester 2
• Agricultural harvester 2 is here formed by a combine harvester suitable for harvesting crops 20.
• the control device 1, which results in particular with reference to Figures 2 to 4, here comprises a plurality of input devices 3, a
• the input devices 3 include here by way of example a joystick and a lever.
• Other input devices 3 are readily apparent in Figures 3 and 4, but are for the present invention of no further
• the screen 5 is arranged by means of a support arm 6 on the remaining control device 1, wherein the support arm 6 is fixed by means of two fixing means 7, 8 to a housing 24 of the control device 1.
• the support arm 6 is formed here by a cranked round tube, which is divided by means of a crank 15 in two straight sections 9, 10.
• the two straight sections 9, 10 are straight in themselves and each have a central axis 13, 14. These central axes 13, 14 close due to the crank 15 an angle 16 of about 50 °. Thus, a Kröpfungswinkel the crank 15 is about 50 °.
• the central axis 13 of the straight section 10 is oriented substantially horizontally in the example shown and consequently coincides with a horizontal axis 11.
• the support arm 6 is formed in both straight sections 9, 10 with a circular cross-section, wherein an outer circumferential surface 12 of the support arm 6 is contour-free and in particular smooth.
• the fixing means 7, 8 are in the example shown each one of
• the locking screws 26 are each radially screwed into a lateral surface of the respective fixing means 7, 8, wherein they radially by means of a rotation relative to the respective
• Fixing 7, 8 are movable. An inner radius of the fixing means 7, 8 exceeds a
• the screen 5 is arranged on an end of the support arm 6 facing away from the fixing means 7, 8.
• the screen 5 cooperates with a mounting clamp 25, which surrounds the support arm 6 in the second straight section 9 of the support arm 6 and thus forms a frictional connection.
• Mounting bracket 25 includes a hinge 17, by means of which the screen 5 is connected to the mounting bracket 25.
• This joint 17 allows rotation of the screen 5 relative to the support arm 6 about a hinge axis 18, which is oriented here at least substantially horizontally. In this way, a tilt of the screen 5 can be changed very easily. In combination with this movement allows the displacement and the rotation of the support arm 6 relative to the control device 1, a change in a distance of the screen 5 from a user 23 of
• the second straight section 9 here has a length of about 40 cm, measured starting from the crank 15 to a crank 15 facing away from the end.
• FIG. 3 shows an input device 3 designed in the form of a joystick, wherein in a typical positioning of a seat within a driver's cab 22 of the harvester 2 It is conceivable that the input devices 3 blocks a clear view of the screen 5.
• the screen 5 By rotating the support arm 6 relative to the control device 1, the screen 5 can be moved relative to the input devices 3 such that the direct view of the screen 5 is released without having to change the distance of the screen 5 from the user 23.
• a possible inclination of the screen 5 can typically be neglected, since a rotation of the support arm 6 in order to release a field of view is usually required only within a small angular range. Consequently, an inclination of the screen 5 is to be feared only to a small extent, so that the readability of the screen 5 is not affected.
• control device 1 is installed on an agricultural harvester 2 in the form of a combine harvester, as explained above.
• the control device 1 is used to monitor the harvester 2 and to control it by entering information.
• the user 23 by means of output of information on the screen 5 an operating state of
• Cutting organ 19 or a working organ 21 monitors or a general

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