Patents by Inventor Christopher Brubaker

Christopher Brubaker 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: 10537062
    Abstract: A system includes an agricultural vehicle having a first storage container configured to store an agricultural product, a support vehicle having a second storage container, and an aerial vehicle having one or more sensors configured to monitor a fullness of the second storage container. The aerial vehicle is configured to provide a first signal indicative of the fullness of the second storage container to the agricultural vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Brubaker
  • Publication number: 20180338422
    Abstract: A system includes an agricultural vehicle having a first storage container configured to store an agricultural product, a support vehicle having a second storage container, and an aerial vehicle having one or more sensors configured to monitor a fullness of the second storage container. The aerial vehicle is configured to provide a first signal indicative of the fullness of the second storage container to the agricultural vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Brubaker
  • Publication number: 20170124776
    Abstract: An agricultural vehicle including a chassis, a controller carried by the chassis, and a vehicle maintenance system coupled to the vehicle. The vehicle maintenance system includes a viewing system configured to process an image of at least a portion of the vehicle and an augmentation system. The augmentation system is configured to identify an element of the vehicle in the image; receive information from the vehicle about a maintenance action relative to the element; and place a designator proximate to the element identified in the image, the designator indicating the maintenance action that is to be undertaken involving the element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Michael Carpentier, Christopher A. Brubaker
  • Patent number: 8571744
    Abstract: An automated method and system includes an automatic guidance system (AGS) and swath pattern. The AGS steers a vehicle towing a rotary baler in an “S”, or oscillatory pattern around a predetermined approximate centerline of the swath path. The oscillatory pattern may be user defined. By steering the vehicle in an oscillatory pattern referenced to the A-B line, a windrow of crop material may be distributed into an even and optimal bale size and density by the baler. Bale chamber sensors detect an imbalance of crop density and in response, AGS adjusts an interval or amplitude of oscillatory pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Christopher A. Brubaker, Phillip A. Cobb
  • Publication number: 20120265392
    Abstract: An automated method and system includes an automatic guidance system (AGS) and swath pattern. The AGS steers a vehicle towing a rotary baler in an “S”, or oscillatory pattern around a predetermined approximate centerline of the swath path. The oscillatory pattern may be user defined. By steering the vehicle in an oscillatory pattern referenced to the A-B line, a windrow of crop material may be distributed into an even and optimal bale size and density by the baler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Christopher A. Brubaker, Phillip A. Cobb
  • Patent number: 8234033
    Abstract: An automated method and system includes an automatic guidance system (AGS) and swath pattern. The AGS steers a vehicle towing a rotary baler in an “S”, or oscillatory pattern around a predetermined approximate centerline of the swath path. The oscillatory pattern may be user defined. By steering the vehicle in an oscillatory pattern referenced to the A-B line, a windrow of crop material may be distributed into an even and optimal bale size and density by the baler. Bale chamber sensors detect an imbalance of crop density and in response, AGS adjusts an interval or amplitude of oscillatory pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Christopher A. Brubaker, Philip A. Cobb
  • Patent number: 8010261
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically correcting a steering command from an auto guidance system to adjust for misalignments between the crop rows and the header due to errors which may include, but are not limited to a stack up of errors from the remote positioning system information translation, planter and harvester machine centerline differences, harvesting and planting pattern differences, and the like, that integrates row sensor information into the auto guidance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventor: Christopher A. Brubaker
  • Publication number: 20100318253
    Abstract: An automated method and system includes an automatic guidance system (AGS) and swath pattern. The AGS steers a vehicle towing a rotary baler in an “S”, or oscillatory pattern around a predetermined approximate centerline of the swath path. The oscillatory pattern may be user defined. By steering the vehicle in an oscillatory pattern referenced to the A-B line, a windrow of crop material may be distributed into an even and optimal bale size and density by the baler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Christopher A. BRUBAKER, Philip A. Cobb
  • Publication number: 20080289308
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically correcting a steering command from an auto guidance system to adjust for misalignments between the crop rows and the header due to errors which may include, but are not limited to a stack up of errors from the remote positioning system information translation, planter and harvester machine centerline differences, harvesting and planting pattern differences, and the like, that integrates row sensor information into the auto guidance system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventor: Christopher A. Brubaker
  • Patent number: 6761630
    Abstract: An adjustment control system for a grain cleaning sieve or sieves of an agricultural combine, a method of automatic operation of a sieve control system for adjusting the sieve opening size or position while mitigating error and inaccuracy resulting from tolerance stack-up of mechanical components in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Case, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin S. Schwinn, Christopher A. Brubaker