US 11,719,568 B2
Parallel mode grain cart scale apparatus and method
Jeffrey M. Lind, Omaha, NE (US); and Ronald W. Osborne, Jr., Omaha, NE (US)
Assigned to Farmers Edge Inc., Winnipeg (CA)
Filed by Farmers Edge Inc., Winnipeg (CA)
Filed on Oct. 29, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/83,919.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/928,020, filed on Oct. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0131855 A1, May 6, 2021
Int. Cl. G01G 19/12 (2006.01); B62B 5/00 (2006.01); A01B 76/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01G 19/12 (2013.01) [A01B 76/00 (2013.01); B62B 5/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A grain cart scale apparatus in combination with an agricultural cart for transporting an agricultural product therein, the agricultural cart comprising existing load cells and an existing scale device in communication with the existing load cells so as to be arranged to deliver an excitation voltage to the load cells and measure a differential voltage output by the existing load cells to determine a weight of the agricultural product, the grain cart scale apparatus comprising:
a telemetry scale device operatively connected to the existing scale device and the existing load cells;
the telemetry scale device being arranged to measure the differential voltage output by the existing load cells and determine the weight of the agricultural product in the grain cart without interference to the existing scale device being arranged to deliver the excitation voltage to the load cells and measure the differential voltage output by the existing load cells.