Patents by Inventor Martinus Cornelis Johannes Buijs

Martinus Cornelis Johannes Buijs 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: 11425888
    Abstract: An animal farm system includes a barn, animal related structures within the barn, such as a feeding alley and/or a milking system, and an autonomous vehicle arranged to perform an animal related action and move about in the barn. The vehicle includes a control unit to move the vehicle about, a position determining system for determining a position of the vehicle in the barn, a sensor system to determine a value of a parameter related to a position of the vehicle with respect to the barn or an object therein, such as the at least one structure therein, and a vehicle communication device. The control unit further is arranged to contain barn map information, and receive motion control and navigation information via the vehicle communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: LELY PATENT N.V.
    Inventors: Martinus Cornelis Johannes Buijs, Mauro Brenna
  • Publication number: 20190246600
    Abstract: An animal farm system in a includes a barn, animal related structures within the barn, such as a feeding alley and/or a milking system, and an autonomous vehicle arranged to perform an animal related action and move about in the barn. The vehicle includes a control unit to move the vehicle about, a position determining system for determining a position of the vehicle in the barn, a sensor system to determine a value of a parameter related to a position of the vehicle with respect to the barn or an object therein, such as the at least one structure therein, and a vehicle communication device. The control unit further is arranged to contain barn map information, and receive motion control and navigation information via the vehicle communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.
    Inventors: Martinus Cornelis Johannes BUIJS, Mauro BRENNA
  • Patent number: 9522811
    Abstract: The invention provides a livestock feed-displacing device and system, with a grab bucket which can be positioned above a feed kitchen with feed positions by a control unit, wherein the control unit is designed to compose an amount of animal feed from feed material provided in the feed kitchen by positioning the grab bucket at a grabbing position, grabbing livestock feed underneath said grabbing position, positioning the grab bucket at a desired feed-unloading point, such as in a feed wagon, and unloading the grabbed livestock feed at the feed-unloading point, wherein the control unit is designed to earmark, if at least one predetermined clearing-up criterion has been met, livestock feed in the feed kitchen as waste to be removed and to make the device carry out a clearing-up operation, wherein the clearing-up operation comprises the removal of the livestock feed at said feed position by displacing it to another position in the feed kitchen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Lely Patent N.V.
    Inventors: Jan Martinus Van Kuilenburg, Karel Van Den Berg, Martinus Cornelis Johannes Buijs