Patents by Inventor Helmut Claas

Helmut Claas 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: 10321622
    Abstract: An agricultural working machine has a first axle and a second axle, multiple ground-engaging means disposed at the first and second axles that are at least partially drivable by a drive engine or are steerable using steering-knuckle steering, a steering-angle sensor disposed at a steerable ground-engaging means for detecting a set steering angle (?th) and a steering brake for the selective braking of one or more drivable, ground-engaging means for steering support. A control unit controls and regulates the at least one steering brake based on a steering angle (?th, ?tat) or a slip angle (?) of at least one of the steerable ground-engaging means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: CLAAS Industrietechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Muemken, Helmut Claas, Robert Obermeier-Hartmann, Hendrik Schulze Zumkley, Thomas Schulte, Carolin Hammacher
  • Patent number: 9919737
    Abstract: A steerable crawler track for an agricultural utility vehicle such as a tractor or a self-propelled harvesting machine has a left-side track roller unit, a right-side track roller unit, a differential having a transmission input driven by an engine, a first transmission output for driving the left track roller unit, and a second transmission output for driving the right track roller unit and a hydraulic transmission having a variable transmission ratio (i). The transmission outputs of the differential are coupled to one another via the hydraulic transmission such that the ratio of the rotational speeds (nl, nr) of the transmission outputs are influenced by changing the transmission ratio (i) of the hydraulic transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: CLAAS Industrietechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Claas, Heinrich Dueckinghaus, Robert Obermeier-Hartmann, Hendrik Schulze Zumkley
  • Publication number: 20160325782
    Abstract: An agricultural working machine has a first axle and a second axle, multiple ground-engaging means disposed at the first and second axles that are at least partially drivable by a drive engine or are steerable using steering-knuckle steering, a steering-angle sensor disposed at a steerable ground-engaging means for detecting a set steering angle (?th) and a steering brake for the selective braking of one or more drivable, ground-engaging means for steering support. A control unit controls and regulates the at least one steering brake based on a steering angle (?th, ?tat) or a slip angle (?) of at least one of the steerable ground-engaging means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Philipp Muemken, Helmut Claas, Robert Obermeier-Hartmann, Hendrik Schulze Zumkley, Thomas Schulte, Carolin Hammacher
  • Publication number: 20160068185
    Abstract: A steerable crawler track for an agricultural utility vehicle such as, a tractor or a self-propelled harvesting machine has a left-side track roller unit, a right-side track roller unit, a differential having a transmission input driven by an engine, a first transmission output for driving the left track roller unit, and a second transmission output for driving the right track roller unit and a hydraulic transmission having a variable transmission ratio (i). The transmission outputs of the differential are coupled to one another via the hydraulic transmission such that the ratio of the rotational speeds (nl, nr) of the transmission outputs are influenced by changing the transmission ratio (i) of the hydraulic transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: HELMUT CLAAS, HEINRICH DUECKINGHAUS, ROBERT OBERMEIER-HARTMANN, HENDRIK SCHULZE ZUMKLEY
  • Patent number: 5645484
    Abstract: A turning drum of self-propelling harvester thresher is arranged after a threshing mechanism and has a closed casing with a plurality of rows of ribs extending parallel to a rotary axis of the drum. The ribs are inclined by substantially 20.degree.-40.degree. relative to a traveling direction of the harvester thresher. Thereby, the grains which strike against the inclined ribs are deviated, and as a result their striking energy is reduced and the grain breakage is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: Claas Ohg Beschraenkt Haftende Offene Handels-Gesellschaft
    Inventor: Helmut Claas
  • Patent number: 5078646
    Abstract: A self-propelling harvesting thresher comprises threshing means, and a post threshing and separating mechanism, the post threshing and separating mechanism operating in accordance with an axial flow system and including two rotors located near one another and driven in the same direction and a housing surrounding the rotors and provided with guiding means above each drum for guiding a product, the housing being expanded above the rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: CLAAS OHG
    Inventors: Helmut Claas, Franz Tophinke, Franz Heidjann
  • Patent number: 4487005
    Abstract: A drawing roller of a cutting trough of an agricultural machine, particularly a harvester thresher, has a drawing roller body rotatably mounted in a cutting trough, oppositely operating screw plates arranged at outer ends of the roller body, a plurality of controlled drawing fingers arranged on the roller body in a central region thereof, and at least one rigid driving member arranged on the roller body in the central region in addition to the controlled driving fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1984
    Assignee: Claas OHG.
    Inventors: Helmut Claas, Heinrich Ostrup
  • Patent number: 4440416
    Abstract: A motorless harvester thresher is coupled with a multi-purpose vehicle by means of a coupling rod and a coupling linkage extended between the vehicle and the thresher and pivotally mounted to a lateral side of the vehicle and to a laterial side of the thresher.A driven front axle of the vehicle supporting the front wheels thereof coupled with a non-steerable front axle of the front wheels of the harvester thresher by means of the coupling rod connected to a clutch which can be engaged to or disengaged from the coupling rod so as to ensure the axial alignment of front axes of the vehicle and the machine so as to provide for a stable lateral position of the thresher relative to the vehicle in the traveling movement thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Helmut Claas, Nils Frederiksen
  • Patent number: 4367757
    Abstract: A harvester-thresher combine includes two threshing and separating drums which are mounted in a common housing for rotation in the same sense about parallel axes. The axes may extend in planes which extend parallel to the direction of movement of the combine, and then the leading ends of the drums are conical and have an external helical projection thereon. A twist-inducing conveyor may extend at an angle to the direction of movement of the combine into a corresponding cutout in the common housing. The drums may have equal or unequal lengths and in the latter case they are so arranged that the trailing end portions form a discharging step registering with a discharge opening of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1983
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventor: Helmut Claas
  • Patent number: 4312365
    Abstract: A harvester thresher has threshing elements and a plurality of separating elements each including a separating drum and a separating element located below the drum and provided with perforations and rubbing projections, a plurality of pairs of lateral wall members laterally limiting and holding a respective one of the separating elements, and a bar-shaped elongated supporting element extending in the direction of transportation, so that the separating elements are arranged on and shiftable over the supporting element as units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1982
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Helmut Claas, Franz Tophinke
  • Patent number: 4303079
    Abstract: A radial blowing device for a harvester thresher cleaning arrangement has at least two blowers each having a double impeller with two sets of blades, two wind passages each extending from a respective one of the impellers, and two partitions each subdividing a respective one of the wind passages into two half passages, so that each of the half passages communicates with a respective one of the sets of blades of a respective one of the impellers, and each of the partitions extends up to the rotor of a respective one of the impellers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Helmut Claas, Franz Tophinke
  • Patent number: 4202262
    Abstract: An agricultural baler has a device for picking up stalk-type and blade-type vegetation. The picked up vegetation is inserted into a precompacting chamber wherein it is subjected to initial compacting. The degree of compaction is sensed and, when it reaches a preselected magnitude, the precompacted body of vegetation is expelled from the precompacting chamber into a main compacting chamber. The precompacted bodies are of identical or substantially identical size and density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1980
    Assignee: Gebr. Claas Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Claas, Gerhard Romer, Otger Weddeling