Patents by Inventor Stefan Wagner

Stefan Wagner 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: 10354228
    Abstract: In a method for determining an area milled by at least one construction machine or at least one mining machine by means of a milling drum (2) by means of working a predetermined area in several milling trajectories by at least one machine (1), determining the length of the milling trajectories along which a milling operation has taken place by evaluating the continuous machine positions, adding up the previously milled partial areas taking into account the length of the milling trajectory and the installed width of the milling drum (2), wherein the partial area currently milled along the milling trajectory is checked, either continuously or subsequently, for overlapping or multiple overlapping with any previously milled partial areas, and any partial areas which overlap are deducted, as overlapping areas, from the added-up previously milled partial areas, the total added-up partial areas milled minus the total overlapping areas established give the milled area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Paulsen, Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani
  • Publication number: 20190210813
    Abstract: An apparatus for transporting containers or packs of containers includes an endlessly circulating belt driven by a drive. A mark marks a position on the belt and a sensor detects the mark. A controller receives data from the drive's rotation-angle detector and from the sensor. It then uses this data to either determine an extent to which the belt has elongated or to control the drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Stefan Wagner, Andreas Linder, Dominik Thiesing, Thomas Lelie, Josef Düpper, Reinhard Wilzeck
  • Publication number: 20190204852
    Abstract: A construction machine system comprises a self-propelled construction machine and a total station. The construction machine possesses a machine frame, a drive means and a working means for altering the terrain. A position-determination means determines the position of a reference point on the machine in a first coordinate system independent of the machine. The position-determination means receives satellite signals from a global navigation satellite system (GNSS), wherein in normal operation the machine is controlled using the GNSS such that a reference point on the machine moves along a set target travel path. In a total station control mode, the machine is controlled without the GNSS and only using the total station based on a position of the standpoint and orientation of the total station ascertained in the GNSS control mode, and the position-determination of the construction machine occurs in a second coordinate system based on the total station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Matthias Fritz, Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10287882
    Abstract: The invention relates to an earth working machine and to a method for wear-optimized operation of such an earth working machine. Provision is made in this context that machine parameters with which the earth working machine is operated are adapted, in consideration of material properties of the substrate to be worked, in such a way that favorable wear behavior exists for the earth working tools being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn, Stefan Wagner
  • Patent number: 10184337
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a machine (100) for surface mining or road milling. The machine (100) is arranged to remove material from a ground region (102) while moving along the ground region (102) and comprises a ground engager for removing a portion of the material from the ground region (102). The machine (100) further comprises a detecting system (110) that has at least one detector element coupled to a component of the machine (100) to move with the machine (100) and arranged to detect at least one quantity associated with an electrical property of the ground region (102). The detecting system (110) is arranged to provide composition information concerning a composition of at least one material layer in the ground region (102) and thickness information concerning a thickness of at least one material layer (102a,b,c,d). The detected at least one quantity associated with the electrical property is used to provide at least one of the composition information and the thickness information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried von Schönebeck, Klaus Vollmann, Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10077655
    Abstract: In a method for milling an opencast mining surface or for milling off layers of an asphalt or concrete traffic surface with a milling machine removing the ground surface, by milling the ground surface along a predetermined milling track and by transporting the milled material via a conveying device to at least one container of a truck that travels along next to the milling machine, a relative position between the container and the conveying device is automatically controlled to regulate the loading of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried von Schönebeck, Stefan Wagner
  • Patent number: 10046923
    Abstract: An apparatus for separating packaging units to form product groups moving along a transport plane includes dividing elements that circulate on a linear transporter. Each dividing element has an engaging element that protrudes above the transport plane temporarily and then sinks back below the transport plane. A control cam controls the when and where the engaging element protrudes and sinks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Wagner
  • Publication number: 20180202117
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for determining a wear state of a chisel, a chisel holder, and/or a chisel holder replacement system equipped with a chisel and chisel holder. For this method to give the user qualitative and quantitative information about the wear, according to one embodiment of this invention, a position of at least one point of the chisel and/or the chisel holder is determined by a contactless measurement method and a corresponding measurement result is compared in a switching unit to a reference value stored in a memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Publication number: 20180128103
    Abstract: In a drum housing for a working drum of a construction machine or mining machine, said working drum being provided with tools and rotating about a drum axis, with a housing shell which at least partially encloses the circumference of the working drum, and with at least one inspection opening for a monitoring device arranged in the housing shell, wherein said monitoring device inspects the condition of the working drum or the tools thereof, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: a closing mechanism is arranged on the outside of the housing shell, said closing mechanism enabling closure of the at least one inspection opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Winfried von Schoenebeck, Joerg Berges, Peter Berghoff, Stefan Wagner
  • Patent number: 9873994
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for determining a wear state of a chisel, a chisel holder, and/or a chisel holder replacement system equipped with a chisel and chisel holder. For this method to give the user qualitative and quantitative information about the wear, according to one embodiment of this invention, a position of at least one point of the chisel and/or the chisel holder is determined by a contactless measurement method and a corresponding measurement result is compared in a switching unit to a reference value stored in a memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: 9797245
    Abstract: In a drum housing for a working drum of a construction machine or mining machine, said working drum being provided with tools and rotating about a drum axis, with a housing shell which at least partially encloses the circumference of the working drum, and with at least one inspection opening for a monitoring device arranged in the housing shell, wherein said monitoring device inspects the condition of the working drum or the tools thereof, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: a closing mechanism is arranged on the outside of the housing shell, said closing mechanism enabling closure of the at least one inspection opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Writgen GmbH
    Inventors: Winfried von Schoenebeck, Joerg Berges, Peter Berghoff, Stefan Wagner
  • Publication number: 20170293889
    Abstract: In a method for determining an area milled by at least one construction machine or at least one mining machine by means of a milling drum (2) by means of working a predetermined area in several milling trajectories by at least one machine (1), determining the length of the milling trajectories along which a milling operation has taken place by evaluating the continuous machine positions, adding up the previously milled partial areas taking into account the length of the milling trajectory and the installed width of the milling drum (2), wherein the partial area currently milled along the milling trajectory is checked, either continuously or subsequently, for overlapping or multiple overlapping with any previously milled partial areas, and any partial areas which overlap are deducted, as overlapping areas, from the added-up previously milled partial areas, the total added-up partial areas milled minus the total overlapping areas established give the milled area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Sven Paulsen, Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 9643745
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing container packs from containers in a container stream or a plurality of transport lines includes guide elements, entraining elements, applicator elements, and a compartmentalizing and/or compressing unit configured for compartmentalizing and compressing a predetermined number of containers that are combined to form a container pack. The applicator elements apply an adhesive agent by spraying or sprinkling such that a bottle in the pack has adhesive a contact-or-touching surface thereof. The linear transporter transports containers that are to form a subsequent pack from an inlet to an outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher Stuhlmann, Ernst Van Wickeren, Volker Zahn, Thomas Nitsch, Stefan Wagner
  • Patent number: 9637256
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing bundles of containers received from a wide container stream that is converted into plural single-track container streams. The apparatus has a dividing-off and/or compactor unit that divides off and compacts a predetermined number of containers to form a partial bundle to be combined with other partial bundles to form a full bundle. The apparatus also includes application elements that apply adhesive to a container, a linear transporter having a controllable drive, a guide element, a transport element that moves linearly along the guide element, and as many head guides as there are containers in a bundle. The head guides move and/or rotate relative to the transport element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst Van Wickeren, Thomas Nitsch, Stefan Wagner, Volker Zahn
  • Publication number: 20170096894
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a machine (100) for surface mining or road milling. The machine (100) is arranged to remove material from a ground region (102) while moving along the ground region (102) and comprises a ground engager for removing a portion of the material from the ground region (102). The machine (100) further comprises a detecting system (110) that has at least one detector element coupled to a component of the machine (100) to move with the machine (100) and arranged to detect at least one quantity associated with an electrical property of the ground region (102). The detecting system (110) is arranged to provide composition information concerning a composition of at least one material layer in the ground region (102) and thickness information concerning a thickness of at least one material layer (102a,b,c,d). The detected at least one quantity associated with the electrical property is used to provide at least one of the composition information and the thickness information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Winfried von Schönebeck, Klaus Vollmann, Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 9604743
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing a container pack includes a linear transporter, applicator elements, and head guides. The linear transporter has first, second, and third sections. Transport surfaces run parallel to one another in said first section, are oriented at an angle to one another in said second section, and again run parallel to one another in said third section. The second section comprises applicator elements having transversely displaceable and rotatable head guides for single-container transport along said three sections. The apparatus is configured to bring containers together in said third section to form said pack and to transport said pack towards a discharge side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Nitsch, Christopher Stuhlmann, Ernst Van Wickeren, Stefan Wagner, Volker Zahn
  • Publication number: 20170081983
    Abstract: In the following, a camshaft arrangement will be described. In accordance with one example of the present invention, the camshaft arrangement has a camshaft housing, a camshaft arranged in the camshaft housing that has at least one first cam, as well as a second cam that is larger than the at least one first cam and that is rigidly connected with the camshaft. In addition, the camshaft arrangement has a drive wheel that is rigidly mechanically connected with the second cam or with the camshaft, as well as a slide bearing that is arranged coaxially between the drive wheel and the second cam. A bearing bush of the slide bearing is arranged in the camshaft housing or in a bearing cover that is mounted on the camshaft housing. The second cam or the drive wheel or a nut screwed on the camshaft has a running surface for the slide bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Markus POXHOFER, Bernhard RESCH, Stefan WAGNER
  • Patent number: 9581441
    Abstract: In a method for determining an area milled by at least one construction machine or at least one mining machine by means of a milling drum (2) by means of working a predetermined area in several milling trajectories by at least one machine (1), determining the length of the milling trajectories along which a milling operation has taken place by evaluating the continuous machine positions, adding up the previously milled partial areas taking into account the length of the milling trajectory and the installed width of the milling drum (2), wherein the partial area currently milled along the milling trajectory is checked, either continuously or subsequently, for overlapping or multiple overlapping with any previously milled partial areas, and any partial areas which overlap are deducted, as overlapping areas, from the added-up previously milled partial areas, the total added-up partial areas milled minus the total overlapping areas established give the milled area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: WIRTGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Sven Paulsen, Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: 9573711
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing container bundles without a shrink film or strapping has container guides, which are either base or head guides, a grouping unit, one or more application elements, a multiple track container feed providing multiple container streams, and a container transporter for each stream. The guides are disposed on the container transporter. An application element near the transporter applies adhesive to containers. The grouping unit groups and compress a predetermined number of containers to form a container bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Nitsch, Christopher Stuhlmann, Ernst Van Wickeren, Stefan Wagner, Volker Zahn
  • Publication number: 20170009578
    Abstract: The invention relates to an earth working machine and to a method for wear-optimized operation of such an earth working machine. Provision is made in this context that machine parameters with which the earth working machine is operated are adapted, in consideration of material properties of the substrate to be worked, in such a way that favorable wear behavior exists for the earth working tools being used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn, Stefan Wagner