Patents by Inventor Robrecht M.K. Dumarey
Robrecht M.K. Dumarey 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).
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Patent number: 10645880Abstract: An agricultural baler has a shaft, a flywheel connected to the shaft, a plunger connected to the flywheel via a crank, a brake system adapted for providing a brake force for decelerating the flywheel, at least one sensor for providing sensor data indicative for at least one moving part of the baler, and a brake control system comprising a processing system, e.g. a processor provided with an algorithm for stopping the crank in a predefined launch position range, based on a mathematical model.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Xavier G. J. M. Bonte, Stefan De Rycke, Frederik Demon, Robrecht M. K. Dumarey, Pieter Vandevelde
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Patent number: 10098283Abstract: An agricultural baler having a baling chamber and a pre-compression chamber, wherein the pre-compression chamber is adapted to periodically form a slice of crop material and push the slice towards the baling chamber into a first segment of the baling chamber, the baling chamber has a plunger provided for reciprocally moving in the baling chamber thereby compressing slices of crop material into a bale, wherein at least one optical bale length sensor is provided in the baling chamber for measuring the length of the bale.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Tom Coen, Didier Verhaeghe, Robrecht M. K. Dumarey
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Patent number: 10004178Abstract: A rectangular baler having a bale-forming chamber, a piston that is reciprocatable in the bale-forming chamber for compressing biomass to form bales. The dimensions of part of the interior of the bale-forming chamber are adjustable under the influence of at least one actuator the energization of which is controllable. A controller for controlling the energization of the at least one actuator is adapted for generating a least a first control signal in accordance with a target pressure mode of the baler, a second control signal in accordance with a target force mode of the baler, and a third control signal in accordance with a target weight mode of the baler.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Robrecht M. K. Dumarey, Didier O. M. Verhaeghe
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Patent number: 9609808Abstract: Agricultural baler with feeder system arranged for repeatedly feeding crop material towards a baling chamber, the feeder system includes a feeding chamber and a stuffer. The feeder system is arranged for collecting a crop material. The stuffer is arranged for repeatedly carrying out a stuffing cycle and varying an entry position and/or an exit position and/or a stroke depth. The feeder system further includes a sensor arranged for generating a signal indicative of the accumulated crop material in the feeding chamber. A controller that is arranged for triggering the stuffer to start a stuffing cycle wherein the entry position, the exit position, and/or the stroke depth, is adjusted in response to an indication by the sensor signal of the accumulated crop material in the feeding chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Robrecht M. K. Dumarey, Sandor Van Vooren, Pieter Vandevelde, Olivier Arnel Vanhercke
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Patent number: 9585310Abstract: Embodiments relate to weighing a bale formed by a round baler. One or more load cells, but not including load cells at each support of the baler, are used to obtain a measurement of the baler containing the bale and a measurement of the baler empty. Factors related to the slope of the surface on which the baler is located, the size of the bale, and the shape of the bale are used to adjust the measured weight of the bale.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: John H. Posselius, Kevin M. Smith, Douglas S. Fitzkee, Robrecht M. K. Dumarey, Bart M. A. Missotten, Didier O. M. Verhaeghe
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Patent number: 9510512Abstract: A pick-up assembly for an agricultural machine having a pick-up drum rotatably mounted in a frame; a windguard mounted at a free end of two lateral support arms, the two lateral support arms pivotably mounted at their other end to the frame; a crossbar having tines mounted at one end to the crossbar, the crossbar pivotably mounted to the support arms for allowing a range of free movement of the free extremities of the tines between an upper limit and a lower limit wherein two elongate flexible tension elements are connected at one end eccentrically to the crossbar and at their other end to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2012Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventor: Robrecht M. K. Dumarey
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Patent number: 9439358Abstract: A rectangular baler comprising a bale chamber; a compacting plunger moveable between a retracted position and an extended position; an ejection arrangement provided in a wall comprising a shuttle assembly with at least one dog mounted for protruding from said wall when the shuttle assembly is moving from a rest position in the forward direction to move one or more bales forward; wherein at least one end dog is located in the rest position of the shuttle assembly in a zone near of the plunger in the extended position thereof, such that when the shuttle assembly moves in the forward direction, said at least one end dog is engageable behind a bale adjacent the inlet of the bale chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Stefan De Rycke, Peter Vanhoutte, Robrecht M. K. Dumarey
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Patent number: 9433152Abstract: A caster wheel assembly of a pickup for an agricultural machine, comprising a wheel on a carrier shaft mounted rotatably within a bushing of a pickup arm. The wheel being biased by a spring to be oriented in a predetermined direction relative to the pickup arm. The spring is mounted over the pickup arm between a first arm fixed to the carrier shaft and a second arm fixed to the pickup arm.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Marek Bucharzewski, Mariusz Choluj, Rafal Domalewski, Robrecht M. K. Dumarey, Pawel Krasniewski, Andrzej Okrasko, Lukasz Szyjkowski, Lukasz Ziembicki
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Patent number: 9426944Abstract: Agricultural square baler wherein the pivotable member is mechanically linked to the drive shaft by a linkage of the baler provided for mechanically pivoting the pivotable member in relation to the rotation of the drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Karel Naeyaert, Robrecht M. K. Dumarey, Adrianus Naaktgeboren, Johan A. E. Vande Ryse, Sandor Van Vooren, Pieter Vandevelde, Didier O. M. Verhaeghe
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Publication number: 20160192592Abstract: Agricultural baler with feeder system arranged for repeatedly feeding crop material towards a baling chamber, the feeder system includes a feeding chamber and a stuffer. The feeder system is arranged for collecting a crop material. The stuffer is arranged for repeatedly carrying out a stuffing cycle and varying an entry position and/or an exit position and/or a stroke depth. The feeder system further includes a sensor arranged for generating a signal indicative of the accumulated crop material in the feeding chamber. A controller that is arranged for triggering the stuffer to start a stuffing cycle wherein the entry position, the exit position, and/or the stroke depth, is adjusted in response to an indication by the sensor signal of the accumulated crop material in the feeding chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2014Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Robrecht M.K. Dumarey, Sandor Van Vooren, Pieter Vandevelde, Olivier Arnel Vanhercke
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Publication number: 20160165801Abstract: Embodiments relate to weighing a bale formed by a round baler. One or more load cells, but not including load cells at each support of the baler, are used to obtain a measurement of the baler containing the bale and a measurement of the baler empty. Factors related to the slope of the surface on which the baler is located, the size of the bale, and the shape of the bale are used to adjust the measured weight of the bale.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: John H. Posselius, Kevin M. Smith, Douglas S. Fitzkee, Robrecht M.K. Dumarey, Bart M.A. Missotten, Didier O.M. Verhaeghe
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Patent number: 9297688Abstract: Embodiments relate to weighing a bale formed by a round baler. One or more load cells, but not including load cells at each support of the baler, are used to obtain a measurement of the baler containing the bale and a measurement of the baler empty. Factors related to the slope of the surface on which the baler is located, the size of the bale, and the shape of the bale are used to adjust the measured weight of the bale.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: John H. Posselius, Kevin M. Smith, Douglas S. Fitzkee, Robrecht M. K. Dumarey, Bart M. A. Missotten, Didier O. M. Verhaeghe
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Publication number: 20160014965Abstract: Agricultural square baler wherein the pivotable member is mechanically linked to the drive shaft by a linkage of the baler provided for mechanically pivoting the pivotable member in relation to the rotation of the drive shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: KAREL NAEYAERT, ROBRECHT M.K. DUMAREY, ADRIANUS NAAKTGEBOREN, JOHAN A.E. VANDE RYSE, SANDOR VAN VOOREN, PIETER VANDEVELDE, DIDIER O.M. VERHAEGHE
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Publication number: 20160000012Abstract: An agricultural baler has a shaft, a flywheel connected to the shaft, a plunger connected to the flywheel via a crank, a brake system adapted for providing a brake force for decelerating the flywheel, at least one sensor for providing sensor data indicative for at least one moving part of the baler, and a brake control system comprising a processing system, e.g. a processor provided with an algorithm for stopping the crank in a predefined launch position range, based on a mathematical model.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Xavier G.J.M. Bonte, Stefan De Rycke, Frederik Demon, Robrecht M.K. Dumarey, Pieter Vandevelde
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Publication number: 20150373918Abstract: An agricultural baler having a baling chamber and a pre-compression chamber, wherein the pre-compression chamber is adapted to periodically form a slice of crop material and push the slice towards the baling chamber into a first segment of the baling chamber, the baling chamber has a plunger provided for reciprocally moving in the baling chamber thereby compressing slices of crop material into a bale, wherein at least one optical bale length sensor is provided in the baling chamber for measuring the length of the bale.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Tom Coen, Didier Verhaeghe, Robrecht M.K. Dumarey
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Patent number: 9137946Abstract: The feeder of a combine has at least one rotatable cam and hook, rotatable about a common axis. The cam is arranged to gradually reduce the distance between the feeder and the header by rotating the cam away from the header and the hook is arranged to grip a bar located on the header as the cam is being rotated away from the header, thereby securing the header to the feeder. A coupling mechanism automatically establishes a hydraulic and/or electric coupling between the feeder and the header, through the reduction of the distance between feeder and header.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Didier O. M. Verhaeghe, Steven G. M. Van Overbeke, Frederik Verschave, Robrecht M. K. Dumarey, Bart M. A. Missotten, David Coppé, Frederick Muys
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Publication number: 20150237802Abstract: A caster wheel assembly of a pickup for an agricultural machine, comprising a wheel on a carrier shaft mounted rotatably within a bushing of a pickup arm. The wheel being biased by a spring to be oriented in a predetermined direction relative to the pickup arm. The spring is mounted over the pickup arm between a first arm fixed to the carrier shaft and a second arm fixed to the pickup arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Marek Bucharzewski, Mariusz Choluj, Rafal Domalewski, Robrecht M.K. Dumarey, Pawel Krasniewski, Andrzej Okrasko, Lukasz Szyjkowski, Lukasz Ziembicki
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Publication number: 20150025757Abstract: A rectangular baler having a bale-forming chamber, a piston that is reciprocatable in the bale-forming chamber for compressing biomass to form bales. The dimensions of part of the interior of the bale-forming chamber are adjustable under the influence of at least one actuator the energization of which is controllable. A controller for controlling the energization of the at least one actuator is adapted for generating a least a first control signal in accordance with a target pressure mode of the baler, a second control signal in accordance with a target force mode of the baler, and a third control signal in accordance with a target weight mode of the baler.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Robrecht M.K. Dumarey, Didier O.M. Verhaeghe
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Patent number: 8794136Abstract: An ejector system for a bale-forming chamber comprises a shuttle assembly having protrusions. This shuttle assembly is able to reciprocate to propel at least two bales towards a discharge outlet. The system furthermore comprises a tilting mechanism for tilting the shuttle assembly to retract a subset of the protrusions from an extended position projecting into the bale-forming chamber to a retracted position disposed outside the bale-forming chamber, thus, during movement of the shuttle assembly towards the discharge outlet, propelling only the bale present in the bale-forming chamber closest to the discharge outlet.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Robrecht M. K. Dumarey, Karel O. R. Naeyaert
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Publication number: 20140174303Abstract: Embodiments relate to weighing a bale formed by a round baler. One or more load cells, but not including load cells at each support of the baler, are used to obtain a measurement of the baler containing the bale and a measurement of the baler empty. Factors related to the slope of the surface on which the baler is located, the size of the bale, and the shape of the bale are used to adjust the measured weight of the bale.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: CNH AMERICA LLCInventors: John H. Posselius, Kevin M. SMITH, Douglas S. FITZKEE, Robrecht M.K. DUMAREY, Bart M.A. MISSOTTEN, Didier O.M. VERHAEGHE