Patents Assigned to AGCO
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Publication number: 20170300219Abstract: A method and system for assisting user selection of ballasting options for an agricultural vehicle when coupled to an agricultural implement. The user is presented with a selection menu of implement types, whereby each implement type defines operating ranges of discrete values for first, second and optionally third operational parameters of the vehicle, with the differing combinations defining a values subset. An optimal choice from the available ballasting options is made for each combination in the values subset, and a selection from the optimal choices based on prevalence or probability of occurrence is made and may be presented to the user. Operational parameters may include operating speed, loading due to implement weight and engine power.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: AGCO International GmbHInventors: Thiemo BUCHNER, Benno PICHMAIER
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Patent number: 9788480Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2014Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Brendon Nafziger, Daniel James Soldan
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Patent number: 9788486Abstract: A grain header has a frame with a cutter bar affixed to the frame. A sub-frame is pivotably coupled to the frame and a mower cutter bar is coupled to the sub-frame. A swather is coupled to the sub-frame and arranged rearward relative to the mower cutter bar. A deflector is disposed between the cutter bar and the mower cutter bar. The deflector is moveable between a raised position in which the deflector permits crop material cut by the mower cutter bar to pass onto the swather, and a lowered position in which the deflector inhibits crop material cut by the mower cutter bar from passing onto the swather.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Emmanuel Magisson, Frederic Ducroquet
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Patent number: 9775287Abstract: A harvesting header has an outer impeller fixed to an outermost outboard cutter for rotation therewith to convey cut crop material laterally inwardly toward the center of the header. The outer impeller has a lower disc member forming the bottom of an impeller cage and an upper stationary grass ring. An intermediate impeller is located between the axes of rotation of the two outboard cutters, wherein the intermediate cage-like impeller is suspended on the harvesting header above the cutting plane and not fixed to any of the cutters and rotates in the same direction as the outboard impeller. The outboard and intermediate impellers have a plurality of crop conveying discs, wherein the crop conveying discs on the outboard impeller are offset vertically and overlap horizontally with the crop conveying discs on the intermediate impeller to form an intermeshing region between the two impellers.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Brian D. Olander, Martin E. Pruitt
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Publication number: 20170258008Abstract: A system conveying material-other-than-grain (MOG) from a harvesting machine to a packaging machine towed by the harvesting machine. The system includes an joint pivotably joining a harvesting machine hitch to a packaging machine hitch. An accelerator is mounted to the packaging machine hitch. The accelerator has a housing with a top-side inlet and a side outlet. A MOG-propelling disk is disposed in the housing and is rotatable about an axis. A conduit is disposed above the packaging machine hitch and has an inlet end and an outlet end, the inlet end coupled to the side outlet. The conduit has first and second opposing side portions and a top side portion without an opposing bottom portion, with at least part of the top side portion is parallel with the plane of the disk. The accelerator, conduit, and packaging machine are collectively in pivotal arrangement relative to the harvesting machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2014Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: AGCO CORPORATIONInventor: Maynard M. Herron
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Patent number: 9743588Abstract: A drive arrangement for a harvesting header of a harvesting machine having a running gear on which a feeder housing is mounted. A front side of the feeder housing has a header mount that moves relative to the feeder housing and on which the harvesting header is detachably fastened. An automated coupling mechanism is provided to link a driven shaft from the harvesting machine to a drive shaft of the harvesting header as the header is connected to the harvesting machine. The drive connector connected with the header mount is movable relative thereto during the attachment of the harvesting header to axially align the driven shaft and drive shaft as the harvesting header approaches the feeder housing during the attachment to accommodate differing header drive shaft orientations.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: AGCO InternationalInventors: Constantin Dreer, Johannes Haehnel
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Patent number: 9743587Abstract: A plant stalk stomper assembly is operable to be mounted relative to a toolbar of a row crop header for advancement over the ground in a forward travel direction. The stomper assembly includes a frame and an elongated stomper skid plate operable to engage the ground as the stomper assembly is advanced in the forward travel direction. The skid plate presents an attachment section along which the skid plate is mounted relative to the frame. At least part of the skid plate includes a unitary plate element that depends below the attachment section to present a lowermost ground-engaging margin. The unitary plate element includes a deformation region located between the attachment section and the ground-engaging margin, with the unitary plate element operable to bend along the deformation region in response to relative movement between the attachment section and the ground-engaging margin.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Randall Lohrentz, Daniel Dreyer, David Holt
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Patent number: 9743586Abstract: A combine harvester includes a residue management system having a chaff spreader mounted to a straw chopper. The chaff spreader is positioned in front of the straw chopper and is configured to collect and spread chaff from a cleaning shoe when in a spreading position. A mechanical linkage is provided between the straw chopper and chaff spreader so that movement of the straw chopper from an operating position to a non-operating position is translated into pivoting of the chaff spreader from a spreading position to a non-spreading position.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventor: Joseph Mark Biggerstaff
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Patent number: 9736976Abstract: An agricultural work vehicle is operable to be advanced along the ground to sever a swath of standing forage plants and to lay the severed forage material into a windrow. The agricultural work vehicle includes a powered chassis, a harvesting header, and a quick-attachment header adapter. The header adapter is shiftably supported by the powered chassis and is configured to selectively support the harvesting header. The header adapter includes an adapter frame, having end supports and a center support, and a selectively actuatable latch assembly supported on the adapter frame. The latch assembly is associated with at least one of the supports to releasably secure the harvesting header to the adapter frame when the latch assembly is engaged and permit disconnection from the adapter frame when the latch assembly is disengaged.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventor: Robert L. Figger
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Patent number: 9736980Abstract: A harvesting header has a crop conveying element fixed to an outboard cutter of a cutter bed. The crop conveying element includes at least one slinger attached to an upstanding spacer to space the slinger apart from a top wall of the cutter. The slinger includes a flat disc with a plurality of lobes extending outwardly from a central portion thereof and the spacer is shorter than an outer impeller such that a top extremity of the slinger is spaced below an upper level of an outer impeller. The spacer is also smaller in diameter than the outer impeller so as to provide a space below the slinger to allow flow of the crop material over the second outboard cutter, the space between the top wall of the cutter and the slinger being at least half of the height between a lower disc member and upper stationary grass ring of the outer impeller.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Martin E. Pruitt, Shane Bollinger
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Patent number: 9736983Abstract: A windrower with a header has a conveying medium with first and second portions connected with a pivot joint and moveable across a plural rollers configured to receive crop material from the header and direct the crop material to a side of the windrower to form a windrow on the ground to the side of the windrower. In an operational position and with the frame selected to one of the predetermined angular adjustments, the conveying medium discharges the harvested crop material at an angle of trajectory determined by the selected angular position of the second portion. The windrower harvests crop with the header, receives the mowed crop on the conveyor system, adjusts a rate at which the mowed crop is discharged from the conveyor system, and adjusts an angle of trajectory at which the mowed crop is discharged from the conveyor system.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: AGCO CORPORATIONInventors: Douglas R. Treffer, Daniel S. Jost, Shane A. Bollinger
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Patent number: 9738216Abstract: In one embodiment, a towed implement proximity system, the system comprising: a first device comprising a transceiver, the first device configured to: transmit a signal; receive a first signal at a first angle and a second signal at a second angle responsive to the transmitted signal, the first and second signals comprising first information and second information, respectively, the first and second information each corresponding to respective positional information; and a controller coupled to the first device, the controller configured to determine a relative position in three axes between a first machine and a second machine based on the first and second information.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Patrick Kendrick, Lawrence Retzlaff, Gerald R. Johnson, Quentin Guhr
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Patent number: 9731563Abstract: A tire pressure control arrangement for a vehicle having at least two tires connected to an air supply. Each tire is connected to the air supply via a supply line having a first valve connected to a second valve. The arrangement further includes a pressure sensor between the two valves. The first valve is closed while the supply line is connected to a pressure supply and the pressure in the supply line is monitored for a pre-determined period of time by a control system on the vehicle to detect whether there are any leaks in the arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: AGCO InternationalInventors: Alexander Städele, Christian Pischulti, Benjamin Schmölz
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Patent number: 9717172Abstract: A control system for a mobile machine includes one or more sensors for generating machine state data and one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices are configured to determine a first segment and a second segment of an operating path of the machine and to use the machine state data to determine an optimal speed for a turn maneuver between the first segment and the second segment of the operating path. The one or more computing devices may further be configured to determine a first optimal speed for a first portion of the turn maneuver and a second optimal speed for a second portion of the turn maneuver.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Gerald R Johnson, Jordan Berry
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Patent number: 9717183Abstract: A combine harvester includes threshing apparatus, a grain pan and a cleaning unit. The grain pan is arranged to collect a grain/chaff stream from the threshing apparatus and is driven in an oscillating manner to convey the collected grain/chaff to a rear edge from where the grain/chaff stream falls into the cleaning unit. The cleaning unit includes a fan unit for generating an airstream directed through the grain/chaff stream falling from the rear edge and an airstream vented above the grain pan.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: AGCO A/SInventor: Morten Leth Bilde
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Patent number: 9716926Abstract: Systems and methods for remote query of weather conditions at an agricultural machine use an onboard telemetry unit as a gateway for communication with the machine. The telemetry unit can be coupled to both the machine's electrical system at the machine, and a machine's controller area network (CAN). A user can call up the machine's telemetry unit using a cell phone or personal computer to retrieve weather data such as temperature, humidity and rainfall from a weather station coupled to the machine. A system can provide an alert when a desired predetermined condition is present at a machine, for example an alert that a harvesting or baling condition is present. The system can also enable an operator or fleet manager to check the state of various devices or apparatus at a machine, enabling remote diagnostics via the onboard telemetry unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Gerald R. Johnson, Grant L. Good, Timothy Dan Buhler
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Patent number: 9706698Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprising drawing outdoor air past one or more screens of a combine harvester by generating air flow; circulating the air flow through one or more ducts and into a cleaning system of the combine harvester; closing a baffle in each of the one or more ducts; and responsive to the closing, discharging the air flow past the one or more screens.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Jared Kinder, Alan R. Morr, Deborah Honas
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Patent number: 9706696Abstract: A control system for a tractor that controls an operating condition of an attached implement and includes a pressure sensing device which senses the pressure in the hydraulic drive circuit and provides a signal indicative of the pull force necessary to pull the implement. The control system further includes a control device which receives the pressure signal and a second signal relating to the speed of the tractor and adjusts the position of the implement to a position within a pre-determined range in order to prevent damage to the tractor or implement.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: AGCO International GmbHInventor: Christian Gschwendtner
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Patent number: 9701164Abstract: A tire pressurization arrangement on a vehicle in which the pressurization of the tire is controlled by a vehicle control unit and the vehicle control unit is notified of a desired tire pressure or desired tire volume. An air flow rate in a supply line to the tire is established so that the time to pressurize the tire to the desired tire pressure/volume is calculable, or the time taken to pressurize the tire to an interval pressure/volume is calculable, said interval pressure/volume being between a current tire pressure/volume and the desired pressure/volume.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: AGCO International GmbHInventors: Bernhard Hoeldrich, Frank Kreulich, Christian Pischulti, Stefan Prestel, Alexander Staedele, Benjamin Schmoelz
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Patent number: 9695920Abstract: A continuously variable transmission for an agricultural vehicle, the transmission comprising a transmission casing and transmission components, the components including: an input shaft drivable by a prime mover, first and second output drive shafts for connection to driven wheels of the vehicle, a mechanical transmission branch which transfers torque mechanically from the input shaft to the first and second output shafts, and a further transmission branch having at least one continuously variable motor, wherein the first and second output drive shafts are additionally driven by the at least one motor so as to provide the first and second output drive shafts with continuously variable drive.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: AGCO International GmbHInventor: Richard Heindl
