System, apparatus, and method for determining distance to a ground surface covered with vegetation for operation of a milling or reclamation machine

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11542670
APP PUB NO 20220259809A1
SERIAL NO

17174366

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A system, apparatus, and method can tune a sensor to filter unwanted reflections or echoes of sound waves from a vegetation layer covering a ground surface in favor of reflections or echoes of sound waves from the ground surface. Such tuning can include adjusting a width of the sound waves output by the sensor. A distance from the sensor to the ground surface underlying the vegetation layer can be determined using the reflections or echoes of the sound from the ground surface based on the sound waves output from the sensor at the adjusted width.

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CATERPILLAR PAVING PRODUCTS INC9401 85TH AVENUE NORTH BROOKLYN PARK MN 55445

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Frantz, Matthew-D S Eden Prairie, US 2 0
Reed, Garrett D Big Lake, US 2 0

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