Patents by Inventor Cyrus Barimani

Cyrus Barimani 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: 10655285
    Abstract: A self-propelled ground milling machine includes a working roller, a hold-down device which is height-adjustable with respect to the traffic surface being arranged upstream of the working roller in the working direction, and a detection unit which determines a physical variable characteristic of an undesirable state of the operating process, wherein fragments are broken off from the traffic surface, apply compressive force to the hold-down device and can press the hold-down device into a raised position with respect to the traffic surface. A device for height-adjusting the hold-down device responds by applying a contact pressure, directed counter to the compressive force applied by the fragments, to the hold-down device. By applying sufficient contact pressure, the hold-down device can be effectively prevented from rising from the traffic surface, such a way that during the milling process it is at least made more difficult for fragments to break off undesirably from the traffic surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Philip Verhaelen, Cyrus Barimani
  • Publication number: 20200141072
    Abstract: In a self-propelled road milling machine for milling road surfaces comprising a milling roller housing arranged at the machine frame between the front and rear chassis axles, it is provided that the rear end, as seen in the direction of travel, of the milling roller housing is flush with a height adjustable stripper shield which laterally rests in the milling track of the milling roller and resiliently against a milling edge of the milling track extending orthogonally to the road surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Hardy Emme, Cyrus Barimani, Andreas Salz
  • Publication number: 20200131721
    Abstract: In a self-propelled construction machine for working ground pavements comprising at least one machine frame, at least one height-adjustable milling drum for working the ground pavement in a working operation, driven by at least one drive unit, at least one control device for monitoring and controlling the milling depth of the milling drum and the speed of the construction machine, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: that a monitoring device detects an interruption of the working operation, and when detecting the interruption of the working operation emits a signal to interrupt the drive of the milling drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Andreas Vogt, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10626563
    Abstract: A self-propelled construction machine includes a machine frame and an operating drum arranged in a drum housing which is open downwards and is closed on both sides by an edge protector which is adjustable in height. A control assembly determines a reference value for the height of the ground surface relative to the machine frame on which the edge protector rests in a floating position, the height of the edge protector relative to the machine frame and the lowering speed of the edge protector. Furthermore, the control assembly is configured such that the height of the edge protector relative to the machine frame is determined at the point in time at which the lowering speed of the edge protector is less than a specified limit value. Preferred embodiments of the machine furthermore detect the edge protector sinking into the ground, and/or prevent the edge protector from digging into the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Vogt, Hanjo Held, Christian Berning, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10619322
    Abstract: A dry-bulk tanker for the provision of binding agents for soil stabilization for a spreading device comprises a storage container (10) for binding agent. A mechanical conveying device (18) for conveying binding agents from the storage container (10) into an intermediate chamber (20) is connected to the storage container (10). A pneumatic conveying device (36) for conveying the binding agent to the spreading device is connected to the intermediate chamber (20). A pressure relief device (40, 41) is connected to the mechanical conveying device in order to avoid the entry of compressed air into the storage container (10). The invention furthermore relates to a conveying system for a dry-bulk tanker and to a work train for working soils with a self-propelled ground working machine and a dry-bulk tanker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Cyrus Barimani, Frederic Hess
  • Publication number: 20200109528
    Abstract: In an automotive milling machine, with a height-adjustable machine frame, with a controller for the travelling and milling operation, with a working drum, with a slewable transport conveyor device arranged in front of or behind the working drum as seen in the direction of travel of the milling machine, where the last or single transport conveyor of the transport conveyor device as seen in the direction of transport is slewable sideways, relative to the machine frame, about an essentially vertical axis under a slewing angle, and about an axis orthogonal to the axis under an elevation angle, and where the transport conveyor discharges the milled material at a specified conveying speed onto a point of impingement on a loading surface of a transport vehicle, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: the controller comprises a detection and control system which continuously locates the alterable position of the loading surface of the transport vehicle and of the transport conveyor relative to the m
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Dirk Franzmann, Armin Montermann, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10590612
    Abstract: An actuating unit for locking a component of a construction machine, in particular a road milling machine or a surface miner, the actuating unit comprising a retaining part for fastening to the construction machine. A self-propelled construction machine, in particular a road milling machine or a surface miner, comprising at least one actuating unit of this type. The basic principle of the actuating unit is the design of the cylinder of a piston/cylinder arrangement as a “locking bolt”. In the actuating unit, a piston is connected to the retaining part and is surrounded by a cylinder, with a first cylinder chamber being formed on one side of the piston and a second cylinder chamber being formed on the other side of the piston. A cut-out which extends in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the cylinder and through which the retaining part extends is provided in the cylindrical wall of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Frankemölle, Ronald Lull, Cyrus Barimani
  • Publication number: 20200080280
    Abstract: The invention relates to a skid segment (10) for an edge protection (5) on a road milling machine or similar ground processing machine having a base part (11) and at least one first skid section (12) mounted thereupon, wherein the first skid section (12), in a first operating position of the base part (11), can be directed in direction (A) onto the surface of the road or ground. At least one second skid section (13) is mounted on the base part (11), which, in a second operating position of the base part (11), can be directed in direction (A) onto the surface of the road or ground. The invention further relates to an edge protection for a road milling machine or similar ground processing machine having skid segments of this kind, wherein the edge protection has an edge which is designed to receive at least one skid segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Salz, Martin Lenz, Cyrus Barimani
  • Publication number: 20200072049
    Abstract: The invention relates to a milling machine, in particular a road milling machine, a stabiliser, a recycler or a surface miner, comprising a drive means which is configured such that the milling machine performs translatory and/or rotatory movements on the ground, and a working means which is configured such that the ground is machined. The invention also relates to a method for operating a milling machine of this type. The milling machine according to the invention has a control unit 15 to input drive parameters and work parameters. The control unit 15 is distinguished by a selection unit 15C to select an operating mode from a plurality of operating modes. The control and processing unit 20 has a memory 20A which stores at least one predetermined drive parameter which is assigned to the operating mode, and/or at least one predetermined work parameter which is assigned to the operating mode, for each operating mode of the plurality of operating modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Andreas Vogt, Thomas Lehnert, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10577036
    Abstract: In a construction machine (1) for working a ground pavement (29), comprising a machine frame (2), no less than one lifting column (14), no less than one travelling device (4, 6) which is connected to the machine frame (2) via the no less than one lifting column (14), where the machine frame (2) is adjustable in height relative to the ground pavement (29) by means of the lifting column (14), where the lifting column (14) comprises a column element (18) and a guiding element (16), where, during height adjustment of the lifting column (14), the column element (18) is guidable into and out of the guiding element (16) in a telescoping fashion, it is specified for the following features to be achieved: that a mount (26) is specified at the column element (18) into which a locking element (24) is insertable in such a fashion that the locking element (24), in the inserted condition, projects, at least in part, vis-à-vis the column element (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Cyrus Barimani, Sebastian Hofrath, Philipp Kraemer
  • Publication number: 20200064242
    Abstract: A wear prognosis method and a maintenance method for an earth working machine are disclosed, along with an apparatus for performing the method. Provision is made that the current wear state of one or more earth working tools is sensed. The residual wear capacity until the wear limit is reached is then ascertained from the current wear state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Sven Paulsen, Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani
  • Publication number: 20200057444
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-propelled construction machine and to a method for controlling a self-propelled construction machine. The construction machine according to the invention has a position-determining device 13 for determining the position of a reference point R on the construction machine in a coordinate system (X, Y, Z) independent of the construction machine. The position-determining device has a navigation satellite system receiver 14 for receiving satellite signals from a global navigation satellite system 15 (GNSS) and a computing unit 16 which is configured so that the position of a reference point (R) on the construction machine and the orientation (?) of the construction machine can be determined based on the satellite signals in a coordinate system (X, Y, Z) that is independent of the construction machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Matthias Fritz, Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10562433
    Abstract: In a method for transporting a large milling machine self-propelled by ground-engaging units and comprising a machine frame adjustable in height by means of lifting devices using a tractor unit with a fifth-wheel coupling for a semi-trailer couplable behind the tractor unit as seen in the direction of travel, the following steps are specified: a.) positioning the machine frame of the large milling machine for coupling the large milling machine to the fifth-wheel coupling of the tractor unit or to a trailer using the ground-engaging units and/or the lifting devices of the large milling machine, b.) coupling and supporting the machine frame on the fifth-wheel coupling of the tractor unit or on the trailer, c.) repeating steps a) and b) to establish a mechanical connection between the tractor unit and the trailer by means of coupling the tractor unit and the trailer via the machine frame of the large milling machine, d.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Christopher Mittelstaedt, Hardy Wilhelmi, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10563363
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scraper bar (20) for a scraper blade (68) of a road milling machine, having a carrier (10) that comprises a front side and a rearward installation surface (17), the carrier (10) comprising a cutting-element receptacle (13), cutting elements (30) being held, serially arranged along a longitudinal axis (L) extending in a width direction of the carrier (10), on or in the cutting-element receptacle (13), and the cutting elements (30) comprising a cutting edge (35.1) that transitions indirectly or directly into a rake surface (35). In order to improve the working result, provision is made according to the present invention that at least for some of the cutting elements (30), the cutting edge (35.1) is set at least locally not parallel to the longitudinal axis (L).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: Wirtgen GmbH, Betek GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Cyrus Barimani, Thomas Lehnert, Andreas Salz, Heiko Friederichs, Andreas Rapp, Simon Krämer, Ulrich Krämer
  • Patent number: 10562573
    Abstract: A road construction machine includes a machine frame and two front and two rear crawler track units. Each crawler track unit includes a piston-cylinder unit. A central pressure limiting valve communicates a hydraulic pressure source with a hydraulic supply line. The hydraulic supply line communicates the central pressure limiting valve with the piston-cylinder units of all four crawler tracks. A common pressure accumulator is communicated with all four of the piston-cylinder units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Busley, Burkhard Frank, Cyrus Barimani
  • Publication number: 20200034793
    Abstract: In a method for determining an area milled by at least one construction machine or at least one mining machine by means of a milling drum (2) by means of working a predetermined area in several milling trajectories by at least one machine (1), determining the length of the milling trajectories along which a milling operation has taken place by evaluating the continuous machine positions, adding up the previously milled partial areas taking into account the length of the milling trajectory and the installed width of the milling drum (2), wherein the partial area currently milled along the milling trajectory is checked, either continuously or subsequently, for overlapping or multiple overlapping with any previously milled partial areas, and any partial areas which overlap are deducted, as overlapping areas, from the added-up previously milled partial areas, the total added-up partial areas milled minus the total overlapping areas established give the milled area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Sven Paulsen, Stefan Wagner, Cyrus Barimani
  • Publication number: 20200024812
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-propelled construction machine, comprising a machine frame supported by a chassis having wheels or crawler tracks. The basic principle of the invention involves determining a variable ? which is characteristic of the milling profile on the basis of a functional relationship between the variable which is characteristic of the milling profile and the advance speed v and/or milling drum rotational speed n. The variable ? which is characteristic of the milling profile is a correction variable for adjusting the height of the milling drum with respect to the surface of the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Rene' Müller, Sebastian Hofrath, Cyrus Barimani
  • Publication number: 20200002904
    Abstract: The self-propelled construction machine according to the invention, in particular road-milling machine, recycler, stabiliser or surface miner, comprises a machine frame 2, which is supported by a chassis 1, which has wheels or tracks 1A, 1B. A milling drum 4 is arranged on the machine frame. The wheels or tracks 1A, 1B and the milling drum 4 are driven by a drive unit 8. Furthermore, the construction machine comprises a control unit 19 for controlling the drive unit 8 and a signal-receiving unit 18 for detecting at least one measurement variable M(t) which is characteristic of an operating state of the milling drum 4. The construction machine is characterised in that the rotational speed of the milling drum 4 is adapted, on the basis of at least one measurement variable M(t) which is characteristic of a critical operating state of the milling drum, to the operating conditions of the construction machine in such a way that the milling drum is operated in a non-critical operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Cyrus Barimani
  • Patent number: 10494778
    Abstract: In a ground working machine for working ground surfaces or traffic surfaces, in particular cold recycler or soil stabilizer as a self-propelled machine or attachment unit, featuring a machine frame, featuring a milling/mixing drum rotating transversely to the working direction of the machine frame, featuring a drum housing enclosing the milling/mixing drum and resting on the ground surface during the milling operation that forms a mixing chamber for crushing the milled material and/or mixing the milled material with additives, where the milling/mixing drum is height-adjustable for adjustment of a selectable milling depth, featuring a pivotable drum flap arranged, as a minimum, at the front end of the drum housing as seen in working direction, and featuring a controller for, as a minimum, the working process, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: the drum flap is, as a minimum, of two-part design and comprises no less than one upper part and one lower part, in which design no less than one
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Cyrus Barimani
  • Publication number: 20190360333
    Abstract: The invention relates to an earth working machine and to a method for wear-optimized operation of such an earth working machine. Provision is made in this context that machine parameters with which the earth working machine is operated are adapted, in consideration of material properties of the substrate to be worked, in such a way that favorable wear behavior exists for the earth working tools being used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn, Stefan Wagner