Sensor and sensor mount assembly for seed delivery system

摘要

A sensor and sensor mount assembly are described. The sensor may include a sensor body, window, and frame. When the sensor is mounted to a seed delivery system, an alignment tab or recess on the sensor or the delivery system may mate with an alignment recess or tab included on the other of the sensor and the delivery system. The sensor frame may include a side flange proximate the sensor window, which may seat in a recess on the delivery system when the sensor is mounted to the delivery system. A mounting tab or groove on one of the sensor or the delivery system may be oriented at an oblique angle with respect to a seed path, and may seat in an obliquely angled mounting groove or tab included on the other of the sensor or the delivery system, in order to mount the sensor to the delivery system.

主权项

1. A sensor for detecting a seed in a seed delivery system as a belt transport mechanism of the seed delivery system moves the seed along a seed path at least in part extending in a direction of movement of the belt transport mechanism through a belt housing of the seed delivery system, the belt housing including at least one of a first alignment tab and a first alignment recess, the sensor comprising:
a sensor body; a sensor window; a sensor frame mounted to the sensor body and surrounding, at least in part, the sensor window; and at least one of a second alignment recess and a second alignment tab included on at least one of the sensor frame and the sensor body, the at least one of the second alignment recess and the second alignment tab being engageable with at least one of the first alignment tab and the first alignment recess by sliding in a sideways direction with respect to the seed path; wherein, when the sensor body is mounted to the belt housing, the at least one of the second alignment recess and the second alignment tab mates, respectively, with at least one of the first alignment tab and the first alignment recess such that the sensor window faces the belt transport mechanism.