Patents Assigned to CLAAS E-Systems KGaA mbH & Co KG
  • Publication number: 20190098825
    Abstract: A method for the operation of a self-propelled agricultural working machine has at least one working element and a driver assistance system for generating control actions within the working machine. A sensor arrangement for generating surroundings information is provided, and the driver assistance system generates the control actions based on the surroundings information. The sensor arrangement comprises a camera-based sensor system and a laser-based sensor system, each of which generates sensor information regarding a predetermined, relevant surroundings area of the working machine. The sensor information of the camera-based sensor system is present as starting camera images. The starting camera images are segmented into image segments by an image processing system according to a segmentation rule, and the segmented camera images are combined by a sensor fusion module with the sensor information from the laser-based sensor system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: CLAAS E-Systems KGaA mbH & Co KG
    Inventors: DENNIS NEITEMEIER, BORIS KETTELHOIT, ANDREAS SKIBA, THILO KRAUSE
  • Publication number: 20180376128
    Abstract: An agricultural working machine, in particular a tractor, has at least one agricultural working unit for working a crop field including a multitude of useful plants, and a camera system which includes a 3D camera. The camera system is configured for generating with the 3D camera 3D information regarding the crop field by recording stereoscopic image pairs along two different viewing axes. The viewing axes proceed from optical centers of the 3D camera, which are connected to each other by a baseline that is inclined relative to the horizontal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: CLAAS E-Systems KGaA mbH & Co KG
    Inventors: MARTIN ANDREAS FALK JENSEN, PAVEL LISOUSKI, GERT LYSGAARD ANDERSEN, MORTEN RUFUS BLAS
  • Publication number: 20180177133
    Abstract: An agricultural machine for conducting an agricultural working process includes a combustion engine (2), electrical consumers (3-8), a chargeable electrical battery (9) for electrically supplying the consumers (3-8) and a monitor module (10) for monitoring the charging level of the battery (9). It is proposed that some of the electrical consumers (3-8) of the agricultural machine (1) are peripheral consumers (3-8) for providing functions in a parking state of the agricultural machine (1), in which the combustion engine (2) is shut off, that a power management module (11) is provided, which in the parking state of the agricultural machine (1) monitors the charging level of the battery (9) via the monitor module (11) and deactivates at least one peripheral consumer (3-8), when the charging level falls below a threshold level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: CLAAS E-Systems KGaA mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Benjamin Heyne, Volker Brill, Christian Laing, Nermine Khairallah
  • Patent number: 9924636
    Abstract: A crop harvesting machine has a machine body and a discharge spout attached to the machine body for overloading crop via a crop stream to a trailer. And electronic spout control and a discharge spout drive arrangement displaces the discharge spout relative to the machine body based on drive commands of the electronic spout control for guiding the crop stream to a target hit point at the trailer. A first sensor arrangement generates sensor information by optically identifying a reference feature at the trailer and detecting the position of the reference feature and/or space orientation of the reference feature. The second sensor arrangement generates sensor information by detecting a space orientation of the machine body, the discharge spout or both. The electronic spout control generates its drive commands for guiding the crop stream based on the sensor information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: CLAAS E-Systems KGaA mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Pavel Lisouski, Kristian Kirk, Gert Lysgaard Andersen, Morten Rufus Blas, Ralf Hartmann, Dirk Lahmann
  • Patent number: 9468140
    Abstract: An agricultural machine with an implement for working a row culture of working rows arranged parallel to one another, interference rows arranged at an angle to the working rows or both includes at least one controllably moveably working section with activatable working devices for working the row culture. The implement has a control unit for controlling the working section and working device relative to a working row and an optical sensor unit connected to the control unit for generating an image of at least part of the row culture, from which a sensor signal (S) is generated for controlling the controllably working section, working device or both. The control unit evaluates a validity of the sensor signal (S) to determine whether the sensor signal (S) is used for controlling the working section or working device based on at least one evaluation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: CLAAS E-Systems KGaA mbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Tommy Ertbolle Madsen, Kasper Lundberg Lykkegaard, Gert Lysgaard Andersen
  • Patent number: 9433140
    Abstract: A device for visualizing control operations of an agricultural working machine includes a visualization device that visualizes at least one driving path to be traveled is assigned to the agricultural working machine. Control operations are stored in graphic images and the graphic images are displayed in the visualization device along the driving path to be traveled in the order in which they are carried out, to maintain an operator in an informed state with respect to the control processes that are taking place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CLAAS E-Systems KGaA mbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Lars Peter Meyer Zu Helligen, Kalle Weiland
  • Patent number: 9348996
    Abstract: A method for the authentication of at least two agricultural devices coupled via a data bus includes subjecting the each of the agricultural devices to authentication, automatically and independently of every of the agricultural device by use of an authentication device, which is also coupled to the data bus. The method also includes allowing a direct data exchange or indirect data exchange between the successfully authenticated agricultural devices, automatically. If authentication of the at least two data devices is unsuccessful, data exchange between the unsuccessfully authenticated agricultural devices is disallowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: CLAAS E-SYSTEMS KGAA MBH & CO KG
    Inventors: Jasper Jeninga, Florian Dirlewanger, Andreas Mock
  • Patent number: 9107344
    Abstract: A control system controlling a goods carrier of an agricultural vehicle for conveying goods to a target area, has a 3D imaging device providing frames imaging the target area, a data processor and a memory. The control system derives information from the frames and operates to obtain a reference frame comprising 3D information about the pose of the target area, identify a plurality of characteristic points of the target area in the reference frame, obtain a new frame, analyze the new frame to identify a plurality of characteristic points, search and match characteristic points in the reference frame and the new frame, analyze pairs of matched characteristic points to establish a group of pairs showing a common change of pose between the reference frame and the new frame, and provide a signal taking into account results of the latter analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: CLAAS E-Systems KGaA mbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Tommy Ertbolle Madsen, Morten Rufus Blas, Kristian Kirk