Patents by Inventor Martinus Henricus VAN ALPHEN

Martinus Henricus VAN ALPHEN 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).

  • Publication number: 20220142142
    Abstract: An agricultural device and method for dispensing a liquid product to be sprayed over a surface, such as an agricultural field. The agricultural device includes a boom having a longitudinal supply line for transporting the liquid product and a plurality of nozzles, a pressure regulation unit for controlling the opening and closing of one or more associated nozzles, a positioning system to provide position data, where the position data comprises a real-time position of the agricultural device and a time stamp, a detection system positioned on the boom and/or in front of the agricultural device and is configured to provide detection data comprising information on the surface to be sprayed, and a map generator to, based on the detection data and position data, generate a raster-based representation of the surface, the representation comprising a number of raster elements, where each raster element includes position data associated with that raster element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: EXEL INDUSTRIES
    Inventor: Martinus Henricus VAN ALPHEN
  • Publication number: 20220148099
    Abstract: An agricultural device for working a field, a receiving system configured to receive data from an agricultural device, a system for collecting and storing agricultural data, and a method for aggregating data from an agricultural device. The agricultural device includes—a tool for working the field, a data aggregation system configured to collect a plurality of measurements at a time (T), a data processing unit, operatively connected to the data aggregation system, a memory operatively connected to the data processing unit, and a communication module operatively connected to the data processing unit. The data processing unit is configured to process each measurement from the plurality of measurements from the data aggregation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: EXEL INDUSTRIES
    Inventors: Marten Pieter VAN DER WOUDE, Martinus Henricus VAN ALPHEN
  • Publication number: 20220132830
    Abstract: An agricultural device and a method for dispensing a liquid product over a surface. The device includes at least one boom and a plurality of nozzles positioned along the boom, a pressure regulation unit including a nozzle controller configured for controlling the opening and closing of one or more associated nozzles, and an inclination detection means for determining an inclination of the longitudinal supply line with respect to a horizontal. The pressure regulation unit and/or the at least one nozzle controller is configured to calculate nozzle operation data for each associated nozzle involving inclination data transmitted by the inclination detection means and the position of the nozzle on the longitudinal supply line, and the nozzle controller is configured to operate the nozzles based on the calculated nozzle operation data to obtain a homogeneous spraying of the liquid product over a surface of a field to be sprayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: EXEL INDUSTRIES
    Inventor: Martinus Henricus VAN ALPHEN