MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202524032530 A) filed by Deere & Company, Moline, U.S.A., on April 2, for 'idle-avoidance system for work vehicle and engine system using same.'
Inventor(s) include Khadiya, Navin.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An idle-avoidance system for a work vehicle having an engine and one or more work components includes an electric machine coupled to and driven by the engine and a battery coupled to the engine, the electric machine, and the one or more work components. The idle-avoidance system further includes a controller having a processing and memory architecture. The controller is configured to execute instructions to determine whether the engine is in an idling state and in response estimate a power demand associated with energizing at least one of the one or more work components to an operational state, monitor a state of charge of the battery, terminate operation of the engine when the state of charge of the battery is sufficient to meet the estimated power demand, and activate ignition of the engine and operation of the electric machine in a power generation mode to charge the battery when the state of charge of the battery is not sufficient to meet the estimated power demand."
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