Patents by Inventor Bernd Walterscheid

Bernd Walterscheid has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11879216
    Abstract: A paver, in particular a slipform paver, has a machine frame supported by front and rear undercarriages and a paving device for the paving of material. The paver is provided with an apron monitoring device for generating elevation profile data or elevation profile signals describing the elevation profile of the material deposited in the apron of the paving device in a direction transverse to the working direction. A data or signal processing device receives the elevation profile data or signals. The apron monitoring device provides the data needed to allow the material to be spread more evenly across the working width of the paver during the feeding operation by means of a spreading device for spreading the material to be paved in a direction transverse to the working direction and/or to allow the spreading device to be controlled for improved spreading of the material after the paver has been fed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Jens Brieskorn, Lothar Schwalbach, Stefan Wagner, Bernd Walterscheid, Gunnar Ramseger, Martin Dahm
  • Publication number: 20230265620
    Abstract: The invention relates to a paver, in particular a slipform paver, having a machine frame 1 supported by front and rear undercarriages 2 and 3 and a paving device 6 for the paving of material. The invention relates additionally to a method of operating such a paver. The paver is provided with an apron monitoring device 13 configured to generate elevation profile data or elevation profile signals describing the elevation profile of the material deposited in the apron of the paving device 6 in a direction transverse to the working direction X. In addition, the paver has a data or signal processing device 16 receiving the elevation profile data or elevation profile signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Jens Brieskorn, Lothar Schwalbach, Stefan Wagner, Bernd Walterscheid, Gunnar Ramseger, Martin Dahm
  • Patent number: 11585050
    Abstract: A paver, in particular a slipform paver, has a machine frame supported by front and rear undercarriages and a paving device for the paving of material. The paver is provided with an apron monitoring device for generating elevation profile data or elevation profile signals describing the elevation profile of the material deposited in the apron of the paving device in a direction transverse to the working direction. A data or signal processing device receives the elevation profile data or signals. The apron monitoring device provides the data needed to allow the material to be spread more evenly across the working width of the paver during the feeding operation by means of a spreading device for spreading the material to be paved in a direction transverse to the working direction and/or to allow the spreading device to be controlled for improved spreading of the material after the paver has been fed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jens Brieskorn, Lothar Schwalbach, Stefan Wagner, Bernd Walterscheid, Gunnar Ramseger, Martin Dahm
  • Publication number: 20230010051
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a ground milling machine, in particular a road milling machine, a stabilizer, a recycler, a surface miner or the like, having an interchangeable milling drum, wherein the milling drum is equipped with a plurality of milling tools, in particular round shank picks, wherein the milling drum has a current state, wherein a control unit is provided for controlling at least one function of the ground milling machine, and wherein the milling drum has a characteristic feature or a characteristic feature is assigned to the milling drum. According to the invention, provision is made that at least one data set containing information on the current state of the milling drum is stored in a storage unit, in that the characteristic feature identifying the milling drum is assigned to the data set in the storage unit, and this data set is transmitted to a processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Philip Verhaelen, Bernd Walterscheid, Sascha Spöth, Florian Peters
  • Patent number: 10927515
    Abstract: A self-propelled milling machine includes a controller which continuously locates an alterable position of a loading surface and of a slewable transport conveyor relative to a machine frame, or the position of the loading surface relative to the transport conveyor, and automatically controls one or more of the slewing angle, the elevation angle and the conveying speed of the transport conveyor, wherein discharged milling material impinges on pre-calculated points of impingement within the loading surface. The controller determines correction factors for the control parameter(s) as a function of a transverse inclination about the longitudinal central axis of the loading surface, a position angle between the longitudinal central axis of the loading surface and the longitudinal central axis of the transport conveyor or that of the machine frame, and/or the position of the pre-calculated point of impingement relative to an end of the loading surface lying on the longitudinal central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventors: Cyrus Barimani, Christian Berning, Tobias Krista, Bernd Walterscheid
  • Publication number: 20200270823
    Abstract: The invention relates to a paver, in particular a slipform paver, having a machine frame 1 supported by front and rear undercarriages 2 and 3 and a paving device 6 for the paving of material. The invention relates additionally to a method of operating such a paver. The paver is provided with an apron monitoring device 13 configured to generate elevation profile data or elevation profile signals describing the elevation profile of the material deposited in the apron of the paving device 6 in a direction transverse to the working direction X. In addition, the paver has a data or signal processing device 16 receiving the elevation profile data or elevation profile signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Jens Brieskorn, Lothar Schwalbach, Stefan Wagner, Bernd Walterscheid, Gunnar Ramseger, Martin Dahm
  • Publication number: 20190153682
    Abstract: A self-propelled milling machine includes a controller which continuously locates an alterable position of a loading surface and of a slewable transport conveyor relative to a machine frame, or the position of the loading surface relative to the transport conveyor, and automatically controls one or more of the slewing angle, the elevation angle and the conveying speed of the transport conveyor, wherein discharged milling material impinges on pre-calculated points of impingement within the loading surface. The controller determines correction factors for the control parameter(s) as a function of a transverse inclination about the longitudinal central axis of the loading surface, a position angle between the longitudinal central axis of the loading surface and the longitudinal central axis of the transport conveyor or that of the machine frame, and/or the position of the pre-calculated point of impingement relative to an end of the loading surface lying on the longitudinal central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Cyrus Barimani, Christian Berning, Tobias Krista, Bernd Walterscheid
  • Patent number: 10066347
    Abstract: A device for working ground surfaces or roadways comprising a machine frame and a working drum in a drum housing arranged at said machine frame, where no less than one spraying device extending parallel to the working drum and featuring several outlet nozzles for spraying agents arranged next to one another and directed towards the working drum is arranged at the drum housing, where the outlet nozzles comprise one each drivable closing mechanism with a closing element which, in an open position, fully uncovers the nozzle channel of the outlet nozzle and, in a closed position, closes the nozzle channel. A controller drives the closing mechanisms, with the outlet nozzles and the related closing elements being adapted to one another in such a fashion that the flow cross-section in the outlet nozzle is variable in accordance with the position of the closing element on a specified path between the open position and closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Bernd Walterscheid, Cyrus Barimani
  • Publication number: 20180030676
    Abstract: In a device for working ground surfaces or roadways comprising a machine frame and a working drum in a drum housing arranged at said machine frame, where no less than one spraying device extending parallel to the working drum and featuring several outlet nozzles for spraying agents arranged next to one another and directed towards the working drum is arranged at the drum housing, where the outlet nozzles comprise one each drivable closing mechanism with a closing element which, in an open position, fully uncovers the nozzle channel of the outlet nozzle and, in a closed position, closes the nozzle channel, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: that a controller drives the closing mechanisms, with the outlet nozzles and the related closing elements being adapted to one another in such a fashion that the flow cross-section in the outlet nozzle is variable in accordance with the position of the closing element on a specified path between the open position and closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Bernd Walterscheid, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 9598825
    Abstract: A device for working ground surfaces or roadways including a machine frame and a working drum in a drum housing arranged on said machine frame, where no less than one spraying device extending parallel to the working drum and featuring several outlet nozzles for spraying agents arranged next to one another and directed towards the working drum is arranged on the drum housing. Wherein each outlet nozzle includes a drivable closing mechanism with a closing element which, in an open position, fully uncovers the nozzle channel of the outlet nozzle. In a closed position, closes the nozzle channel. Such that the following functions are achieved: that a controller drives the closing mechanisms, with the outlet nozzles and the related closing elements being adapted to one another in such a fashion that the flow cross-section in the outlet nozzle is variable in accordance with the position of the closing element on a specified path between the open position and closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Bernd Walterscheid, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Publication number: 20170016186
    Abstract: In a device for working ground surfaces or roadways comprising a machine frame and a working drum in a drum housing arranged at said machine frame, where no less than one spraying device extending parallel to the working drum and featuring several outlet nozzles for spraying agents arranged next to one another and directed towards the working drum is arranged at the drum housing, where the outlet nozzles comprise one each drivable closing mechanism with a closing element which, in an open position, fully uncovers the nozzle channel of the outlet nozzle and, in a closed position, closes the nozzle channel, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: that a controller drives the closing mechanisms, with the outlet nozzles and the related closing elements being adapted to one another in such a fashion that the flow cross-section in the outlet nozzle is variable in accordance with the position of the closing element on a specified path between the open position and closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Bernd Walterscheid, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: 9376774
    Abstract: In a device for working ground surfaces or roadways including a machine frame and a working drum in a drum housing arranged at said machine frame, where no less than one spraying device extending parallel to the working drum and featuring several outlet nozzles for spraying agents arranged next to one another and directed towards the working drum is arranged at the drum housing, where the outlet nozzles include one each drivable closing mechanism with a closing element which, in an open position, fully uncovers the nozzle channel of the outlet nozzle and, in a closed position, closes the nozzle channel, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: that a controller drives the closing mechanisms, with the outlet nozzles and the related closing elements being adapted to one another in such a fashion that the flow cross-section in the outlet nozzle is variable in accordance with the position of the closing element on a specified path between the open position and closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Bernd Walterscheid, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Publication number: 20150098760
    Abstract: In a device for working ground surfaces or roadways comprising a machine frame and a working drum in a drum housing arranged at said machine frame, where no less than one spraying device extending parallel to the working drum and featuring several outlet nozzles for spraying agents arranged next to one another and directed towards the working drum is arranged at the drum housing, where the outlet nozzles comprise one each drivable closing mechanism with a closing element which, in an open position, fully uncovers the nozzle channel of the outlet nozzle and, in a closed position, closes the nozzle channel, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: that a controller drives the closing mechanisms, with the outlet nozzles and the related dosing elements being adapted to one another in such a fashion that the flow cross-section in the outlet nozzle is variable in accordance with the position of the closing element on a specified path between the open position and closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Bernd Walterscheid, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn