Patents Assigned to Wirtgen GmbH
  • Patent number: 11926974
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an interchangeable unit (28) for material-removing work on a subsoil (U) starting from ground surface (A), the interchangeable unit (28) being designed for operational physical and functional coupling to a machine frame (12) of a road construction machine (10), the interchangeable unit (28) comprising: a housing (30), a removal tool (32), which is mounted on the housing (30) so as to be rotatable about a working axis (R) and of which a circumferential section protrudes from a working opening (30c), a drive belt pulley (62), which is rotatably mounted on the housing (30) and is able to be coupled to a drive belt (58), a transmission gear unit (76), which transmits torque and rotary motion from the drive belt pulley (62) to the removal tool (32) by reversing the direction of rotation, at least the axis of rotation (P62) of the drive belt pulley (62) running at a distance from the working axis (R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Winkels, Dieter Bungarten
  • Patent number: 10822754
    Abstract: An earth working machine (10), having a propelling unit (22) and a machine frame (12) carried by the propelling unit (22), comprises a working apparatus (32) for earth working; an operator's platform (24), having an operating console (26) comprising a console body (52) and an operating panel (54, 66) that is movable relative to the console body (52) and has at least one operating element (58) associated or associatable with a functional device (32, 39) for control thereof. The operating panel (54, 66) is displaceable into a stowed position in which the at least one operating element (58) is covered by a portion (56a, 72a) of the console body (52.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Cyrus Barimani, Christian Berning, Stephan Drumm
  • Patent number: 10822041
    Abstract: An earth working machine (10), for example a road milling machine (10), recycler, stabilizer, or surface miner, having a propelling unit (22) and a machine frame (12); the earth working machine (10) comprising a working apparatus (32) for earth working; and an operator's platform (24), having an operator's platform floor (64) and having at least one operating device (26), being provided on the machine frame (12); the earth working machine (10) comprising a protective canopy (44) liftable and lowerable relative to the operator's platform floor (64) between a lifted operating position and a lowered transport position; the earth working machine (10) comprising a panel arrangement (46) having an upper edge (46a) located closer to the protective canopy (44), having a lower edge (46b) located farther from the protective canopy (44) at a distance from the upper edge (46a), and having two side edges (46c, 46d) spanning the distance between the upper And the lower edge (46a, 46b); the panel arrangement (46) being conn
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Cyrus Barimani, Stephan Drumm, Alexander Körtgen
  • Patent number: 10815626
    Abstract: An earth working machine (10), for example a road milling machine (10), recycler, stabilizer, or surface miner, having a propelling unit (22) and a machine frame (12) carried by the propelling unit (22), comprises a working apparatus (32) for earth working. Provision is made that the earth working machine (10) comprises, on an underside (12a) of the machine frame (12) facing toward the supporting substrate of the machine (10), a maintenance door (52) that is movable between a raised operational readiness position and a lowered maintenance position and that comprises, on its inner side (52a) that faces away from the supporting substrate (U) in the operational readiness position, at least one functional configuration (56, 58) that assists a maintenance operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Tobias Stinner, Hardy Wilhelmi, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10808367
    Abstract: A self-propelled construction machine comprises a control unit configured in such a way that a point of reference on the construction machine moves along a route. A processing unit is configured in such a way that the position of at least one kink on the target route is determined from the imported data, at least a portion of the target route is displayed, and, for the section of the target route in which the target route has the kink, an interpolation curve that is substantially free of kinks is calculated. The relevant section of the target route is replaced by the interpolation curve for the determination of a modelled route. The control of the drive device is then not based upon the predetermined target route, but rather the modelled target route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Fritz, Martin Lenz, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10801322
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting device for an earth working machine, having improved wear protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: Betek GmbH & Co. KG, Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Allgaier, Ulrich Krämer, Heiko Friederichs, Thomas Lehnert, Karsten Buhr, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10794010
    Abstract: The invention relates to a planning system and method for operating one or more road milling machines. In that context, material properties of a road are captured and are geographically associated with one or more roads or road segments. Based on the material properties, an expected milling output of a road milling machine is ascertained, in the context of carrying out milling tasks on the road, or an expected wear on the milling tools. An optimized sequence of milling tasks to be carried out is created on the basis of those data. Accordingly, the invention may enable optimized deployment of the one or more road milling machines and of resources necessary for carrying out the road milling tasks. Aspects of the planning system may be remotely implemented for centralized application with respect to each of the road milling machines, or locally implemented for individual road milling machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Sebastian Hofrath, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10787776
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for determining a wear state of a chisel, a chisel holder, and/or a chisel holder replacement system equipped with a chisel and chisel holder. For this method to give the user qualitative and quantitative information about the wear, according to one embodiment of this invention, a position of at least one point of the chisel and/or the chisel holder is determined by a contactless measurement method and a corresponding measurement result is compared in a switching unit to a reference value stored in a memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: 10774482
    Abstract: The invention relates to a working device for a ground-processing device having a milling drum with a milling drum tube on whose surface working tools are mounted in a projecting manner and are intended to come into contact with the material to be milled during the milling process, wherein the working device has a powertrain for driving the milling drum. In order to improve the running smoothness of a ground-processing machine, provision is made according to the invention for at least one load weight to be arranged, preferably interchangeably, on the powertrain and/or on the milling drum to increase the kinetic energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Mahlberg, Klaus Vollmann, Sebastian Bötzius, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10753052
    Abstract: In a self-propelled construction machine comprising a machine frame with a longitudinal axis, a controller for the travelling and milling operation, a height-adjustable working drum, and a slewable transport conveyor: that the control system, at least as a function of a virtual trajectory for positioning the transport conveyor which is freely specifiable in a stationary coordinate system that is independent of the position and alignment of the machine frame, controls, by means of open-loop control or closed-loop control, at least the slewing angle of the transport conveyor automatically in such a fashion that a reference point of the transport conveyor always remains on the specified trajectory in the case of a change in position of the machine frame within the coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Andreas Vogt, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10746546
    Abstract: A civil engineering machine has a machine control unit configured to determine data which defines the position and/or orientation of a reference point on the civil engineering machine in relation to a reference system independent of the position and orientation of the civil engineering machine. A geometrical shape to be produced on the ground is preset in either a machine control unit or a field rover control unit. The field rover is used to determine a position of at least one identifiable point of the preset geometrical shape in the independent reference system. Curve data defining a desired curve in the independent reference system, corresponding to the preset shape, is determined at least partially on the basis of the position of the at least one identifiable point of the preset geometrical shape in the independent reference system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Fritz, Cyrus Barimani, Christian Berning
  • Patent number: 10745869
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-propelled construction machine, comprising a machine frame supported by a chassis having wheels or crawler tracks. The basic principle of the invention involves determining a variable ? which is characteristic of the milling profile on the basis of a functional relationship between the variable which is characteristic of the milling profile and the advance speed v and/or milling drum rotational speed n. The variable ? which is characteristic of the milling profile is a correction variable for adjusting the height of the milling drum with respect to the surface of the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Rene′ Müller, Sebastian Hofrath, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10735042
    Abstract: An information interface apparatus (27, 27a) in particular for an operator's platform (24) of an earth working machine (10), for example a road milling machine, recycler, stabilizer, or surface miner, having an interface subassembly (52) encompassing a housing (54) and a functional surface (56) that is received in the housing (54) and embodied to input and/or output information, is characterized in that the information interface apparatus (27, 27a) comprises a protective plate (58), embodied separately from the interface subassembly (52), to cover the functional surface (56); the protective plate (58) comprising an anchoring portion (64) with which the protective plate (58) is anchorable on a counterpart anchoring portion (68) of the interface subassembly (52) and the anchoring portion (64) is thus securable against removal from the functional surface (56); and the protective plate (58) comprising a latching portion (66), different from the anchoring portion (64), with which the protective plate (58) is relea
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Cyrus Barimani, Stephan Drumm
  • Patent number: 10724186
    Abstract: An earth working machine (10) includes a machine body (13) having a machine frame (12) and a drive configuration (46), rotationally drivable relative to the machine frame (12) around a drive axis (A), to which configuration a working apparatus (32) embodied for earth working is releasably connected in torque-transferring fashion, in an operating position operational for earth working, for rotation together around the drive axis (A), such that when the connection is released, the working apparatus (32) is removable from the operating position in an axial direction relative to the drive configuration (46) for deinstallation from the drive configuration (46) and, for installation on the drive configuration, is conveyable into the operating position in an axial direction relative to the drive configuration (46).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Karsten Buhr, Markus Frankemölle, Thomas Lehnert, Andreas Salz, Hardy Wilhelmi
  • Patent number: 10724188
    Abstract: An earth working machine includes a drive configuration and a working apparatus releasably connected together by a bolt component. A bolting moment bracing arrangement is connected or connectable in bolting moment-transferring fashion to the bolt component, and includes a bracing region that is embodied for bolting moment-bracing abutment in a bracing bolting direction against a counterpart bracing region, the drive configuration being embodied to be driven to rotate, in a rotation direction codirectional with the bracing bolting direction, while the bracing region is in abutment against the counterpart bracing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Karsten Buhr, Markus Frankemölle, Thomas Lehnert, Andreas Salz, Hardy Wilhelmi
  • Patent number: 10724187
    Abstract: An earth working machine (10) includes a machine body (13) having a machine frame (12) and a drive configuration (46), rotationally drivable relative to the machine frame (12), and to which configuration a working apparatus (32) embodied for earth working is releasably connected in torque-transferring fashion, in an operating position, for rotation together around a drive axis (A), such that when the connection is released, the working apparatus (32) is removable from the operating position in an axial direction relative to the drive configuration (46) for deinstallation from the drive configuration (46) and, for installation on the drive configuration (46), is conveyable into the operating position in an axial direction relative to the drive configuration (46), an actuator (65) being provided which is embodied to move the working apparatus (32) out of the operating position when the connection is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Karsten Buhr, Markus Frankemölle, Thomas Lehnert, Andreas Salz, Hardy Wilhelmi
  • Patent number: 10718431
    Abstract: An earth working machine (10), encompassing a drive motor (42) and a working apparatus (22) drivable by the drive motor (42) so as to move rotationally, the drive motor (42) being connected to the working apparatus (22), for transfer of a torque, with interposition of a shiftable transmission (50; 150) comprising at least two gearing stages having different torque transfer ratios, is characterized in that by means of a first gearing stage of the shiftable transmission (50), an input shaft (48), coupled on the input side to the drive motor (42), of the shiftable transmission (50) is connectable in torque-transferring fashion directly to an output shaft (52), coupled on the output side to the working apparatus (22), of the shiftable transmission (50) so as to rotate together at the same rotation speed; and by means of a second gearing stage of the shiftable transmission (50), the input shaft (48) is connectable in torque-transferring fashion, with interposition of a transmission assemblage (64), to the output s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Tobias Stinner, Cyrus Barimani, Hardy Wilhelmi
  • Patent number: 10711414
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an earth working machine (10) having a machine frame (12); a milling unit (26) that is carried on the machine frame (12) and encompasses a milling tool (28) and a milling tool housing (30) that shields the milling tool (28) with respect to the external environment of the earth working machine (10); and a receiving conveying device (36); the receiving conveying device (36), both in an operationally ready operating state and in a non-operationally-ready installation state, being mounted on the earth working machine (10) movably relative to the machine frame (12); such that in the operational state of the receiving conveying device (36), a portion of the receiving conveying device (36) which is located closer to the milling tool (28) is coupled by means of a first motion coupling (53) for motion together with a part (52) of the milling tool housing (30) which is movable relative to the machine frame (12); such that in order to establish the installation state, the first motion
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Philip Verhaelen, Andreas Salz
  • Patent number: 10704209
    Abstract: A slipform paver comprises a machine frame carried by rolling assemblies, at least two of which being drivable and at least one being steerable, as well as comprising a support arranged on the machine frame for a slipform mould and a controller for controlling the rolling assemblies to adjust the velocities of the drivable rolling assemblies and the steering angles of the one or more steerable rolling assemblies. The controller is configured such that, when the steering angles of the one or more steerable rolling assemblies change, the velocities of the drivable rolling assemblies are adjusted so as to reduce the change in the velocity at which a reference point referring to the support for the slipform mould will move along a predefined trajectory, said change in velocity being caused by changing the steering angle. The quality of the concrete profile produced by the slipform paver is thereby improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Dahm, Matthias Fritz, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: RE48268
    Abstract: A construction machine, in particular road milling machine, recycler or stabilizer, with a machine frame (4) that is carried by a chassis (2) with a working drum (6) and a drive train (8) comprising at the least a drive engine (10), a traction mechanism (12) for the mechanical drive of the working drum (6) with a drive element, an output element and a traction element (30), a device (14) for switching the torque between the drive engine (10) and working drum (6), and device (16) for driving at least one hydraulic pump; it is provided that elements of the drive train (8) are divided into at least two groups, the first group (3) shows at least the drive engine (10), the second group (5) shows at least the drive element (11) of the traction mechanism, and where the first and the second groups (3, 5) are connected to one another via an articulated coupling device (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Busley, Dieter Simons