Patents Assigned to AGCO
  • Automation of networking a group of machines
    Patent number: 10201022
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprising entering, by machine, a first field defined by first field boundaries; and automatically associating the machine with a first wireless network defined by the first field boundaries, the first wireless network comprising a secured data communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Ross Matthews
  • System and method for automatically generating vehicle guidance waypoints and waylines
    Patent number: 10194575
    Abstract: A guidance system for a mobile machine includes a location determining device for determining a location of the machine, a user interface and a controller. The controller is configured to receive location information from the location determining device, detect a path followed by the machine using the location information, present a plurality of preliminary waypoints to a user via the user interface, receive waypoint information from the user via the user interface indicating one or more selected waypoints corresponding to one or more of the preliminary waypoints, and automatically guide the machine using the one or more selected waypoints. The controller may automatically generate the plurality of preliminary waypoints as the machine traverses the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventor: Lee A. Schmidt
  • Variable speed round bale chamber control with accumulator sensor
    Patent number: 10188043
    Abstract: A sensor detects a characteristic of accumulated crop material and a controller manipulates the speed of a baling chamber in response thereto. The speed of a baling chamber of a variable speed baler is manipulated in response to a characteristic of an accumulated crop material. For example, the height of accumulated crop material in an accumulation area may be detected and the speed of the baling chamber manipulated in response thereto. The rate of growth of the bale may also be determined and used in manipulating the speed of the baling chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Olander, Maynard Herron
  • Automated agriculture system
    Patent number: 10185317
    Abstract: A system for performing an agricultural operation on a field, the system including a host vehicle, two or more autonomous agricultural machines configured for performing the said agricultural operation; and a control subsystem for path planning and controlling the movement of each autonomous agricultural machine relative to the host vehicle in the performance of the agricultural operation. The control subsystem is configured to dynamically re-plan the movement of one or more of the autonomous agricultural machines in response to a detected failure of an autonomous agricultural machine as indicated by its position relative to its planned path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: AGCO International GmbH
    Inventors: Benno Pichlmaier, Thiemo Buchner
  • Drawbar assembly with pin ejector mechanism
    Patent number: 10179488
    Abstract: A drawbar assembly for coupling a drawbar to a tongue of a towed implement includes a drawbar pin and a drawbar clevis having a bore configured to receive the drawbar pin. A locking plate is coupled to the drawbar clevis and movable between a pin-locked position in which the locking plate is configured to obstruct at least a portion of the bore, and a pin-unlock condition. An ejector mechanism is configured to dislodge the drawbar pin from the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Derek Hruska, Matthew Benjamin Shaw
  • Automating distribution of work in a field
    Patent number: 10180328
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprising identifying field boundaries from aerial imagery; detecting entry upon a first field by an agricultural machine without operator intervention, the first field within the identified field boundaries; and providing a first path to be traversed in the first field at least in part by the agricultural machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: AGCO Coporation
    Inventor: Paul Ross Matthews
  • Draft force detection on a vehicle having a linkage
    Patent number: 10172273
    Abstract: A vehicle control system for controlling the height of a linkage on a vehicle having a continuously variable transmission (CVT) in which the linkage is automatically raised and lowered depending on a draft force detected by the vehicle including an input draft force detected by sensors in the CVT or driveline is inputted into the control system and the system further processes the input draft force to provide an output draft force upon which movement of the linkage is based and the control system processes the input draft force by compensating the input draft force detected during acceleration or deceleration and/or compensating the input draft detected whilst travelling along a slope, and/or equalizing the input draft force by applying a ramp function, and/or reducing the input draft force when the linkage is at a predetermined height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: AGCO International GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Gschwendtner, Guenther Ostenried, Werner Unsinn
  • Automated system for coupling a harvesting header drivetrain
    Patent number: 10159183
    Abstract: A header drivetrain coupling system including a harvester driveline mounted to a harvesting vehicle and a header driveshaft mounted to a detachable header. The harvester driveline is supported for rotation at an inboard end on a feederhouse and at an outboard end on a header tilt frame even when the header is detached therefrom. The harvester driveline comprises a telescopic portion which permits a coupling member on the outboard end to be moved into and out of engagement with a coupling member on the header driveshaft. A sliding support assembly is provided to support a bearing housing which holds the outboard end of the harvester driveline on the tilt frame. An actuator is configured to move the bearing housing with respect to the tilt frame to selectively engage and disengage the coupling members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignees: AGCO DO BRASIL SA LTDA, AGCO Interenational GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Saraiva, Jakob Bro Sørensen, Airton Solimar Walter, Henning Sorensen
  • Vehicle air supply system
    Patent number: 10160269
    Abstract: An air supply system on a vehicle having a tire. The system includes a compressor having a supply mode for supplying air to a consumer connected to the compressor. The consumer is provided with a reservoir and the compressor switches to an idle mode when the pressure of the reservoir attains a first predetermined reservoir pressure. During a supply period when the consumer is supplied with air from the compressor, the pressure of at least one tire is measured and prior to a subsequent tire pressure measurement, air is discharged from the reservoir so that the compressor remains in the supply mode and the consumer and/or reservoir continues to be supplied with air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO International GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Staedele, Christian Pischulti
  • Locking link assembly for work machine hitch
    Patent number: 10143124
    Abstract: A locking mechanism for a link assembly of a work vehicle hitch has a locking plate mounted to an upper portion of the link assembly. A collar is positioned over the sleeve and is configured to slide relative a portion of the sleeve. The collar meshes with the sleeve so as to prevent rotational movement of the upper portion of the sleeve relative the collar when the collar is adjacent the upper portion, but the sleeve can rotate relative the collar when the collar is adjacent a middle portion of the sleeve. The locking mechanism has a handle mounted on the collar that is pivotable between a locked position where the handle is generally parallel with the sleeve in which the collar is prevented from sliding relative the sleeve and a released position generally perpendicular to the sleeve in which the collar is able to slide relative the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventor: Matthew Shaw
  • Vehicle tank
    Patent number: 10144277
    Abstract: A vehicle tank having an upper surface for mounting a fan and radiator to which is sloped between the fan and radiator mounting parts so that there is a difference in the relative height of the parts. The tank also has a horizontal lower surface that abuts the chassis or frame of a vehicle and the space between the upper and lower surfaces holds a fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO International GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Braeutigam, Simon Brack
  • Product row banding assembly for air delivery machines
    Patent number: 10136575
    Abstract: An agricultural spreader has a hopper containing a granular product and a boom arm supporting a plurality of product delivery conduits supplying a plurality of row banding assemblies configured to disperse the product. The spreader has a pneumatic supply to propel the granular product through the product delivery conduits to the row banding assemblies. Each of the plurality of row banding assemblies includes a cyclone separator having an inlet connected to the product delivery conduit, a product outlet at a bottom end of the cyclone separator, an air outlet at a top end of the cyclone separator. The row banding assembly has a product placement tube connected to the product outlet, and an air exhaust tube connected to the air outlet. The air exhaust tube extends downward and surrounds the product placement tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventor: Todd B. Snyder
  • Path planning based on obstruction mapping
    Patent number: 10139234
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprising, receiving a three-dimensional map of one or more obstructions associated with a field, the one or more obstructions presenting an obstacle to line of sight reception from a satellite to a global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receiver; receiving almanac data corresponding to an orbit of the satellite; determining anticipated accuracy of positioning in the field at plural locations and plural times based on the almanac data and the map; and determining waylines for autonomous traversal through the field based on the anticipated accuracy at the plural locations and the plural times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Ross Matthews
  • Combine harvester antenna mounting
    Patent number: 10135111
    Abstract: An antenna mounting apparatus for a combine harvester where the apparatus includes a first grain tank extension panel mounted to a frame so as to be moveable between an open, extended, position and a closed, retracted, position. An antenna-supporting bracket is pivotally mounted to the grain tank extension panel around a first pivot axis. Actuation means are provided to pivot the antenna-supporting bracket with respect to the grain tank extension member when the grain tank extension panel moves between the open position and closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO International GmbH
    Inventor: Moresco Albano
  • Baler with automated ejection of bales
    Patent number: 10130041
    Abstract: A system for ejecting a bale from a baler, wherein the ejection process is controlled by a control unit with input from various sensors and from a remote operator located on a tractor. The control unit automatically positions a chute, controls a power take-off from the tractor, depressurizes and opens a chamber door, ties the bale, selects and causes ejector teeth to project into a forming chamber to engage the bale, causes the ejector teeth to move toward a discharge outlet such that the engaged bale moves with them toward and through the discharge outlet, and determines when the bale has fully ejected from the baler. The remote operator may choose to eject only the bale or to eject the entire contents of the forming chamber, and if the former, the control unit determines the bale's length and selects a subset of the ejector teeth that corresponds to that length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence D. Retzlaff, Robert J. Waggoner
  • Assigning product information to an aggregation of bales of agricultural crop material
    Patent number: 10127491
    Abstract: A baler is provided with binding material having identification tags at spaced intervals. A formed bale is bound with the binding material using a knotter system on the baler to obtain a completed bale. The identification tag is identified with a read module and sensed parameters of the crop material or bale are associated with the identification tag on the completed bale. A number of identified bales are then joined into the aggregation of bales. The identification tag for each of the identified bales in the aggregate is associated to the aggregation of bales. A person then could read a single identification tag of one of the identified bale in the aggregate which would then populate a characteristic field in the software for each identified bale in the aggregate based off the single identification tag that was read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin J. Hamilton, Emmanuel Regis Magisson
  • Vehicle seat operation feedback and control
    Patent number: 10118516
    Abstract: A vehicle seat operation feedback and control system with a seat and an electronic display screen and a processor configured to receive a signal from the seat corresponding to an inoperable, almost inoperable, or undesired condition and provide feedback on the display screen of the inoperable, almost inoperable, or undesired condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy Allen Murray
  • Control system for controlling header speed of an agricultural vehicle
    Patent number: 10111379
    Abstract: A control system and method for adjusting a rotational speed of a header on an agricultural vehicle based on ground speed of the agricultural vehicle. The header may include a plurality of cutters rotatably actuated with a header actuator. The control system may have a processor that compares a ground speed of the agricultural vehicle with a threshold ground speed. If the ground speed of the agricultural vehicle is below the threshold ground speed, the processor may command the header actuator to rotate the cutters at a constant predetermined rotational speed. If the ground speed of the agricultural vehicle is above the threshold ground speed, the processor may command the header actuator to increase rotational speed of the cutters in proportion to the ground speed of the agricultural vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Brendon Nafziger, Daniel James Soldan
  • DRAWBAR ASSEMBLY WITH PIN EJECTOR MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20180304706
    Abstract: A drawbar assembly for coupling a drawbar to a tongue of a towed implement includes a drawbar pin and a drawbar clevis having a bore configured to receive the drawbar pin. A locking plate is coupled to the drawbar clevis and movable between a pin-locked position in which the locking plate is configured to obstruct at least a portion of the bore, and a pin-unlock condition. An ejector mechanism is configured to dislodge the drawbar pin from the bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Derek HRUSKA, Matthew Benjamin SHAW
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D831043
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Jay Leininger, Joshua Ekholm, Jared Koch, Gerald R. Johnson