Patents by Inventor Kilian Wolff

Kilian Wolff 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: 11944046
    Abstract: An agricultural machine applies liquid material to a field. Valve control signals control valves to apply the liquid material. Row pressure on the agricultural machine is sensed to identify when the valve is opened to apply the liquid material. The valve control signals are generated, based on the row pressure, to control the valves to apply the liquid material at a desired location in the field, relative to plant locations in the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Grant J. Wonderlich, Kenneth Herrmann, Michael C. Steele, Kilian Wolff, Gerrit Pruessmann
  • Patent number: 11930732
    Abstract: An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Roland Werner, Richard A. Humpal, Wolfram Haiges
  • Patent number: 11912261
    Abstract: A system for picking up, bundling and depositing agricultural material having a traction vehicle and a towed implement, the system comprising: an actuator associated with the implement; a control device configured to generate control data for controlling the orientation of the implement and steering of the traction vehicle, the control data including information relating to the orientation of the implement adjustable by the actuator, a desired orientation of the deposited agricultural material and at least one of a speed and a direction of travel of the traction vehicle; and wherein, using the control data, the actuator adjusts the orientation about a vertical axis of the implement relative to the traction vehicle to deposit the agricultural material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Daniel Rossnagel
  • Patent number: 11606910
    Abstract: A harvesting machine comprises a crop conveying channel with a movable bottom flap coupled to a hydraulic actuator controlling the position of the flap and a crop throughput sensing arrangement with a pressure sensor adapted to sense a hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Martin Seimetz, Kilian Wolff, Benedikt Jung, Pierre Dommange, Daniel E. Derscheid, Cole L. Murray
  • Publication number: 20220007564
    Abstract: A method performing an agricultural task on a field, the method comprising: identifying a number of plants in the field on a per unit area; determining a field pattern of plant maintenance for the plants in the field, the field pattern comprising: a planting instruction for travel in a first direction; and a plant maintenance instruction for travel in a second direction which is not parallel to the first direction, the plant maintenance instruction generated using at least one parameter corresponding to the number of plants in the field on a per unit area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: KILIAN WOLFF, STEFAN KUEBLER, FLORIAN REINMUTH, GEORG KORMANN, AKSHAY KUMAR
  • Publication number: 20210345540
    Abstract: An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Roland Werner, Richard A. Humpal, Wolfram Haiges
  • Patent number: 11083130
    Abstract: An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Roland Werner, Richard A. Humpal, Wolfram Haiges
  • Publication number: 20210188240
    Abstract: A system for picking up, bundling and depositing agricultural material having a traction vehicle and a towed implement, the system comprising: an actuator associated with the implement; a control device configured to generate control data for controlling the orientation of the implement and steering of the traction vehicle, the control data including information relating to the orientation of the implement adjustable by the actuator, a desired orientation of the deposited agricultural material and at least one of a speed and a direction of travel of the traction vehicle; and wherein, using the control data, the actuator adjusts the orientation about a vertical axis of the implement relative to the traction vehicle to deposit the agricultural material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Daniel Rossnagel
  • Publication number: 20200260645
    Abstract: A harvesting machine comprises a crop conveying channel with a movable bottom flap coupled to a hydraulic actuator controlling the position of the flap and a crop throughput sensing arrangement with a pressure sensor adapted to sense a hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Martin Seimetz, Kilian Wolff, Benedikt Jung, Pierre Dommange, Daniel E. Derscheid, Cole L. Murray
  • Publication number: 20200037519
    Abstract: An agricultural machine applies liquid material to a field. Valve control signals control valves to apply the liquid material. Row pressure on the agricultural machine is sensed to identify when the valve is opened to apply the liquid material. The valve control signals are generated, based on the row pressure, to control the valves to apply the liquid material at a desired location in the field, relative to plant locations in the field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Grant J. WONDERLICH, Kenneth HERRMANN, Michael C. STEELE, Kilian WOLFF, Gerrit PRUESSMANN
  • Publication number: 20190357426
    Abstract: An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Roland Werner, Richard A. Humpal, Wolfram Haiges
  • Patent number: 10308179
    Abstract: Device and method for providing a vehicle surround view for a vehicle, which is located on a driving plane, comprising vehicle cameras, which provide camera images of a vehicle environment of the vehicle, a location-detection unit, which detects a change in location of at least one vehicle camera relative to the driving plane of the vehicle, and comprising an image data processing unit which projects the camera images provided by the vehicle cameras onto a projection surface to generate the vehicle surround view, which projection surface is adapted according to the detected change in location of the vehicle camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: Conti Temic Microelectronic GMBH, Deere & Company
    Inventors: Johannes Petzold, Kilian Wolff, Denis Selensky, Wolfram Haiges
  • Patent number: 10266117
    Abstract: A device for providing a vehicle environment view for a vehicle includes a plurality of vehicle cameras configured to provide camera images of a vehicle environment of the vehicle, and an image data processing unit configured, based on a detected movement space of at least one vehicle component of the vehicle and/or of the entire vehicle, to adapt a projection surface onto which the camera images provided by the vehicle cameras are projected to generate the vehicle environment view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: Conti Temic Microelectronic GMBH, Deere & Company
    Inventors: Johannes Petzold, Kilian Wolff
  • Patent number: 9848528
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment, a method and a machine for planting seeds or plants in a field to enable a planting of the seeds or plants in an established spacing based on two-dimensional coordinates output by a positioning system and the slope of the field in the working direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Roland Werner, Christian Bartolein, Kilian Wolff, Marcus Reutemann, Uwe Vollmar
  • Publication number: 20170120820
    Abstract: Device and method for providing a vehicle surround view for a vehicle, which is located on a driving plane, comprising vehicle cameras, which provide camera images of a vehicle environment of the vehicle, a location-detection unit, which detects a change in location of at least one vehicle camera relative to the driving plane of the vehicle, and comprising an image data processing unit which projects the camera images provided by the vehicle cameras onto a projection surface to generate the vehicle surround view, which projection surface is adapted according to the detected change in location of the vehicle camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Johannes Petzold, Kilian Wolff, Denis Selensky, Wolfram Haiges
  • Publication number: 20170120822
    Abstract: A device for providing a vehicle environment view for a vehicle includes a plurality of vehicle cameras configured to provide camera images of a vehicle environment of the vehicle, and an image data processing unit configured, based on a detected movement space of at least one vehicle component of the vehicle and/or of the entire vehicle, to adapt a projection surface onto which the camera images provided by the vehicle cameras are projected to generate the vehicle environment view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Johannes Petzold, Kilian Wolff
  • Publication number: 20170071124
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment, a method and a machine for planting seeds or plants in a field to enable a planting of the seeds or plants in an established spacing based on two-dimensional coordinates output by a positioning system and the slope of the field in the working direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Roland Werner, Christian Bartolein, Kilian Wolff, Marcus Reutemann, Uwe Vollmar
  • Patent number: 9179595
    Abstract: An assembly and a method for the precision drilling of seed grains use a drilling machine with at least one row unit which is assigned a drive set up for instigating delivery of a seed grain into a furrow, and a control system which is connected to a position-determining system, to a memory device for storing delivery positions of seed grains, to the drive of the row unit and to a seed material sensor for detecting the actual delivery position of the seed grains in the furrow. The control system controls the drive based on signals from the position-determining system, the memory device and the seed material sensor so that the seed grains are delivered successively at the delivery positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Georg Kormann, Kilian Wolff, Uwe Vollmar
  • Publication number: 20140076216
    Abstract: An assembly and a method for the precision drilling of seed grains use a drilling machine with at least one row unit which is assigned a drive set up for instigating delivery of a seed grain into a furrow, and a control system which is connected to a position-determining system, to a memory device for storing delivery positions of seed grains, to the drive of the row unit and to a seed material sensor for detecting the actual delivery position of the seed grains in the furrow. The control system controls the drive based on signals from the position-determining system, the memory device and the seed material sensor so that the seed grains are delivered successively at the delivery positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: GEORG KORMANN, Kilian Wolff, Uwe Vollmar