Patents by Inventor Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg

Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg 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: 8254351
    Abstract: A communication network contains several nodes, which are equipped with transmitter/receiver units for wireless communication, including nodes referred to as mobile nodes that are installed on mobile machines. So that decentralized decisions can be made regarding the use of the mobile machines at the sites where the machines are located, a memory for storing the operating parameter profiles of several of the mobile machines is assigned to each node; every node is designed to transmit profiles stored in its assigned memory via its transmitter/receiver unit, and to update the profile of a particular mobile machine stored in its assigned memory based on a profile of this mobile machine that is received from another node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Patent number: 8213964
    Abstract: A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication between the mobile and/or stationary devices, and this accidental communication changes to a targeted communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Patent number: 8204960
    Abstract: In a system and a method of electronic data exchange for retrieving information used to carry out processes, at least one application is used to retrieve the information, and the application retrieves situation-specific information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Patent number: 7873617
    Abstract: A device for coordinating a machine fleet includes a memory for storing a large number of data records, an interface for communicating with several users who are capable of making changes to the data records, in the case of which each data record represents a given portion of the working capacity of a machine in the machine fleet, and the changes relate to the assignment of the portion of the working capacity represented by the data record to the users making the change, and an administration unit designed to allow a change to be made to a data record by a user requesting the change if the data record is not assigned to any other user and an urgency of the change indicated by the requesting user reaches a threshold specified for the particular portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbsfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel, Werner Fitzner, Norbert Diekhans, Kai Oetzel
  • Patent number: 7610125
    Abstract: In a method and a device for carrying out the method to optimize operating parameters of an agricultural working machine, an optimization program map being assigned to each adjustable operating parameter in a memory unit, optimization program map A being subdivided into sub-program maps, and the task of optimizing the sub-program maps being transmitted to individual agricultural working machines; in this manner, by dividing up the work to be carried out, the time required to find the optimum operating parameters of an agricultural working machine can be reduced considerably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Willi Behnke
  • Patent number: 7555283
    Abstract: A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication between the mobile and/or stationary devices, and this accidental communication changes to a targeted communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Publication number: 20080242335
    Abstract: A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication between the mobile and/or stationary devices, and this accidental communication changes to a targeted communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Publication number: 20080098035
    Abstract: A device for coordinating a machine fleet includes a memory for storing a large number of data records, an interface for communicating with several users who are capable of making changes to the data records, in the case of which each data record represents a given portion of the working capacity of a machine in the machine fleet, and the changes relate to the assignment of the portion of the working capacity represented by the data record to the users making the change, and an administration unit designed to allow a change to be made to a data record by a user requesting the change if the data record is not assigned to any other user and an urgency of the change indicated by the requesting user reaches a threshold specified for the particular portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel, Werner Fitzner, Norbert Diekhans, Kai Oetzel
  • Publication number: 20080005177
    Abstract: In a method for data configuration and provision, and a device for implementing the method for objects, particularly agricultural working machines, an individualized data record for the particular object is assigned to the object in a higher-order data configurator. It is thereby ensured that efficient, machine-specific data provision is made possible. This has the advantage, in particular, that the information assigned to an object is now available in a process-independent manner, is not restricted to a specific application, and can be used to provide service concepts in a customer-oriented manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Thilo Steckel, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Hans-Peter Grothaus
  • Publication number: 20070298744
    Abstract: A communication network contains several nodes, which are equipped with transmitter/receiver units for wireless communication, including nodes referred to as mobile nodes that are installed on mobile machines. So that decentralized decisions can be made regarding the use of the mobile machines at the sites where the machines are located, a memory for storing the operating parameter profiles of several of the mobile machines is assigned to each node; every node is designed to transmit profiles stored in its assigned memory via its transmitter/receiver unit, and to update the profile of a particular mobile machine stored in its assigned memory based on a profile of this mobile machine that is received from another node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Publication number: 20070073700
    Abstract: In a system and a method of electronic data exchange for retrieving information used to carry out processes, at least one application is used to retrieve the information, and the application retrieves situation-specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Publication number: 20070005209
    Abstract: In a method and a device for carrying out the method to optimize operating parameters of an agricultural working machine, an optimization program map being assigned to each adjustable operating parameter in a memory unit, optimization program map A being subdivided into sub-program maps, and the task of optimizing the sub-program maps being transmitted to individual agricultural working machines; in this manner, by dividing up the work to be carried out, the time required to find the optimum operating parameters of an agricultural working machine can be reduced considerably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Willi Behnke
  • Publication number: 20060014489
    Abstract: A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication between the mobile and/or stationary devices, and this accidental communication changes to a targeted communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Publication number: 20040186597
    Abstract: A method of optimization of adjustable parameters of at least one machine includes providing a data processing system, and optimizing adjustable parameters by processing of at least one process algorithm provided in the data processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Werner Fitzner
  • Publication number: 20040122894
    Abstract: In the electronic data exchange system for communication between multiple users (6), the users (6) operate as both receivers (4) of information (9-11) and servers (5) of information. At least one user (6) of a data transmission network (2) generates required information (9), operating as a server (5), according to specific standards. This required information (9) is retrieved and/or edited by the respective receivers (4). This provides a data exchange system (1), which is suitable to optimize required process chain and management chain. A method of electronic data exchange between multiple users of an electronic data exchange network, in which each user can be both receiver and server of information, is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventor: Heinz Hermann Wippersteg