Patents by Inventor Thomas Roewekamp

Thomas Roewekamp 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: 9826681
    Abstract: An expansion device for a bulk goods container includes a frame, a plurality of wall panels that are connected to the frame in an articulated manner to pivot outwardly such that a pivoted-out position delimit an interior space of the expansion device, connecting elements that are connected in an articulated manner to the wall panels at two edges of the connecting elements and first expansion elements that are connected in an articulated manner to an upper edge of the wall panels and are configured to pivot between a position resting against the wall panels and a position that extends the wall panels. The position extending the wall panels, flexible membrane elements are tensioned between the first expansion elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Claes, Thomas Roewekamp
  • Patent number: 9648807
    Abstract: An agricultural harvesting machine has a control arrangement including an optical sensor device for recording image series of a continuous main crop stream, an evaluation device for ascertaining a portion of damaged grain, a portion of non-grain in the main crop stream or both, on the basis of an image analysis of the recorded image series and a visualization device for displaying the portion of damaged grain and/or the portion of non-grain. The control arrangement cyclically records image series of the continuous main crop stream and, within a predetermined processing time after an image series has been recorded, displays a current portion of damaged grain, a current portion of non-grain or both, based on the image series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Mathias Escher, Georg Eggenhaus, Thilo Krause, Boris Kettelhoit, Allan Kildeby, Jan Van De Sluis, Willi Behnke, Thomas Roewekamp, Stephan Recknagel
  • Publication number: 20150272000
    Abstract: An expansion device for a bulk goods container includes a frame, a plurality of wall panels that are connected to the frame in an articulated manner to pivot outwardly such that a pivoted-out position delimit an interior space of the expansion device, connecting elements that are connected in an articulated manner to the wall panels at two edges of the connecting elements and first expansion elements that are connected in an articulated manner to an upper edge of the wall panels and are configured to pivot between a position resting against the wall panels and a position that extends the wall panels. The position extending the wall panels, flexible membrane elements are tensioned between the first expansion elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Ulrich Claes, THOMAS ROEWEKAMP
  • Patent number: 9089090
    Abstract: A combine harvester includes a grain tank with an upper opening and a foldable attachment disposed on the upper opening. The attachment has two opposing, one-piece, flat attachment parts and two opposing, multiple-component, flat attachment parts. The attachment parts are swivellably disposed on the upper edge of the upper opening of the grain tank, are swivellably connected to one another and, in lying-flat, closed positions, form a cover. The cover at least partially closes the opening. In erected filling positions, the attachment parts increase the volume of the grain tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemashinen GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Claes, Thomas Roewekamp, Egbert Scholz, Georg Paulessen
  • Publication number: 20150009328
    Abstract: An agricultural harvesting machine has a control arrangement including an optical sensor device for recording image series of a continuous main crop stream, an evaluation device for ascertaining a portion of damaged grain, a portion of non-grain in the main crop stream or both, on the basis of an image analysis of the recorded image series and a visualization device for displaying the portion of damaged grain and/or the portion of non-grain. The control arrangement cyclically records image series of the continuous main crop stream and, within a predetermined processing time after an image series has been recorded, displays a current portion of damaged grain, a current portion of non-grain or both, based on the image series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Mathias Escher, Georg Eggenhaus, Thilo Krause, Boris Kettelhoit, Allan Kildeby, Jan Van De Sluis, Willi Behnke, Thomas Roewekamp, Stephan Recknagel
  • Publication number: 20130296005
    Abstract: A combine harvester includes a grain tank with an upper opening and a foldable attachment disposed on the upper opening. The attachment has two opposing, one-piece, flat attachment parts and two opposing, multiple-component, flat attachment parts. The attachment parts are swivellably disposed on the upper edge of the upper opening of the grain tank, are swivellably connected to one another and, in lying-flat, closed positions, form a cover. The cover at least partially closes the opening. In erected filling positions, the attachment parts increase the volume of the grain tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Claes, Thomas Roewekamp, Egbert Scholz, Georg Paulessen