Patents by Inventor Edward L. Swenson

Edward L. Swenson 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: 9205777
    Abstract: A display system for an agricultural vehicle includes a display for displaying a representation of the vehicle's location in a field in which the vehicle is operating and a control device for receiving an indication of an operating state of the vehicle and for controlling a viewing mode of the display according to the operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Edward L. Swenson, Paul Matthews
  • Patent number: 8726820
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to precisely meter and dispense two or more crop inputs with a common metering disc is presented to achieve proper placement in the soil relative to one another. In one embodiment, dry granular or granulized fertilizer is metered from one side of the disc and seed is metered from the opposite side of the same metering disc. The fertilizer is placed in a concentrated “pulse” approximately equal distances between seeds within a common seed furrow and/or between seed furrows to improved nutrient use efficiency by minimizing soil to fertilizer contact and subsequent chemical reactions that make applied supplemental nutrients less available to plants. Pressurized air may be utilized to assist discharge of both the seed and fertilizer from the disc meter to assure precise spacing in the soil. A cover may be placed on the meter and metering disc to recirculate air and thus minimize potential atmospheric contamination from seed coatings and fertilizer materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Nyle C. Wollenhaupt, Edward L. Swenson, Monte J. Rans, William W. Preheim
  • Publication number: 20140107884
    Abstract: A display system for an agricultural vehicle includes a display for displaying a representation of the vehicle's location in a field in which the vehicle is operating and a control device for receiving an indication of an operating state of the vehicle and for controlling a viewing mode of the display according to the operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Edward L. Swenson, Paul Matthews
  • Patent number: 8651033
    Abstract: A method to precisely meter and dispense two or more crop inputs with a common metering disc is presented to achieve proper placement in the soil relative to one another. In one embodiment, dry granular or granulized fertilizer is metered from one side of the disc and seed is metered from the opposite side of the same metering disc. The fertilizer is placed in a concentrated “pulse” approximately equal distances between seeds within a common seed furrow and/or between seed furrows to improved nutrient use efficiency by minimizing soil to fertilizer contact and subsequent chemical reactions that make applied supplemental nutrients less available to plants. Pressurized air may be utilized to assist discharge of both the seed and fertilizer from the disc meter to assure precise spacing in the soil. A cover may be placed on the meter and metering disc to recirculate air and thus minimize potential atmospheric contamination from seed coatings and fertilizer materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Nyle C. Wollenhaupt, Edward L. Swenson
  • Patent number: 8655538
    Abstract: A display system for an agricultural vehicle includes a display for displaying a representation of the vehicle's location in a field in which the vehicle is operating and a control device for receiving an indication of an operating state of the vehicle and for controlling a viewing mode of the display according to the operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Edward L. Swenson, Paul Matthews
  • Publication number: 20130158772
    Abstract: A display system for an agricultural vehicle includes a display for displaying a representation of the vehicle's location in a field in which the vehicle is operating and a control device for receiving an indication of an operating state of the vehicle and for controlling a viewing mode of the display according to the operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Edward L. Swenson, Paul Matthews
  • Publication number: 20130092065
    Abstract: A method to precisely meter and dispense two or more crop inputs with a common metering disc is presented to achieve proper placement in the soil relative to one another. In one embodiment, dry granular or granulized fertilizer is metered from one side of the disc and seed is metered from the opposite side of the same metering disc. The fertilizer is placed in a concentrated “pulse” approximately equal distances between seeds within a common seed furrow and/or between seed furrows to improved nutrient use efficiency by minimizing soil to fertilizer contact and subsequent chemical reactions that make applied supplemental nutrients less available to plants. Pressurized air may be utilized to assist discharge of both the seed and fertilizer from the disc meter to assure precise spacing in the soil. A cover may be placed on the meter and metering disc to recirculate air and thus minimize potential atmospheric contamination from seed coatings and fertilizer materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Nyle C. Wollenhaupt, Edward L. Swenson
  • Patent number: 8371239
    Abstract: A metering disk for dispensing two or more crop inputs to achieve proper placement in the soil relative to one another. In one embodiment, dry granular or granulized fertilizer is metered from one side of the disc and seed is metered from the opposite side of the same metering disc. The fertilizer is placed in a concentrated “pulse” approximately equal distances between seeds within a common seed furrow and/or between seed furrows to improved nutrient use efficiency by minimizing soil to fertilizer contact and subsequent chemical reactions that make applied supplemental nutrients less available to plants. Pressurized air may be utilized to assist discharge of both the seed and fertilizer from the disc meter to assure precise spacing in the soil. A cover may be placed on the meter and metering disc to recirculate air and thus minimize potential atmospheric contamination from seed coatings and fertilizer materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Monte J. Rans, William W. Preheim, Nyle C. Wollenhaupt, Edward L. Swenson
  • Patent number: 8371240
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to precisely meter and dispense two or more crop inputs with a common metering disc is presented to achieve proper placement in the soil relative to one another. In one embodiment, dry granular or granulized fertilizer is metered from one side of the disc and seed is metered from the opposite side of the same metering disc. The fertilizer is placed in a concentrated “pulse” approximately equal distances between seeds within a common seed furrow and/or between seed furrows to improved nutrient use efficiency by minimizing soil to fertilizer contact and subsequent chemical reactions that make applied supplemental nutrients less available to plants. Pressurized air may be utilized to assist discharge of both the seed and fertilizer from the disc meter to assure precise spacing in the soil. A cover may be placed on the meter and metering disc to recirculate air and thus minimize potential atmospheric contamination from seed coatings and fertilizer materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Nyle C. Wollenhaupt, Edward L. Swenson, William W. Preheim, Monte J. Rans
  • Patent number: 8322293
    Abstract: A method to precisely meter and dispense two or more crop inputs with a common metering disc is presented to achieve proper placement in the soil relative to one another. In one embodiment, dry granular or granulized fertilizer is metered from one side of the disc and seed is metered from the opposite side of the same metering disc. The fertilizer is placed in a concentrated “pulse” approximately equal distances between seeds within a common seed furrow and/or between seed furrows to improved nutrient use efficiency by minimizing soil to fertilizer contact and subsequent chemical reactions that make applied supplemental nutrients less available to plants. Pressurized air may be utilized to assist discharge of both the seed and fertilizer from the disc meter to assure precise spacing in the soil. A cover may be placed on the meter and metering disc to recirculate air and thus minimize potential atmospheric contamination from seed coatings and fertilizer materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Nyle C. Wollenhaupt, Edward L. Swenson
  • Publication number: 20100282142
    Abstract: An indexable coupler for indexing metering disks together for dispensing two or more crop inputs to achieve proper placement in the soil relative to one another. In one embodiment, dry granular or granulized fertilizer is metered from one side of the disc and seed is metered from the opposite side of the same metering disc. The fertilizer is placed in a concentrated “pulse” approximately equal distances between seeds within a common seed furrow and/or between seed furrows to improved nutrient use efficiency by minimizing soil to fertilizer contact and subsequent chemical reactions that make applied supplemental nutrients less available to plants. Pressurized air may be utilized to assist discharge of both the seed and fertilizer from the disc meter to assure precise spacing in the soil. A cover may be placed on the meter and metering disc to recirculate air and thus minimize potential atmospheric contamination from seed coatings and fertilizer materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: AGCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: William W. Preheim, Nyle C. Wollenhaupt, Edward L. Swenson
  • Publication number: 20100282147
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to precisely meter and dispense two or more crop inputs with a common metering disc is presented to achieve proper placement in the soil relative to one another. In one embodiment, dry granular or granulized fertilizer is metered from one side of the disc and seed is metered from the opposite side of the same metering disc. The fertilizer is placed in a concentrated “pulse” approximately equal distances between seeds within a common seed furrow and/or between seed furrows to improved nutrient use efficiency by minimizing soil to fertilizer contact and subsequent chemical reactions that make applied supplemental nutrients less available to plants. Pressurized air may be utilized to assist discharge of both the seed and fertilizer from the disc meter to assure precise spacing in the soil. A cover may be placed on the meter and metering disc to recirculate air and thus minimize potential atmospheric contamination from seed coatings and fertilizer materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: AGCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nyle C. Wollenhaupt, Edward L. Swenson, William W. Preheim, Monte J. Rans
  • Publication number: 20100282141
    Abstract: A method to precisely meter and dispense two or more crop inputs with a common metering disc is presented to achieve proper placement in the soil relative to one another. In one embodiment, dry granular or granulized fertilizer is metered from one side of the disc and seed is metered from the opposite side of the same metering disc. The fertilizer is placed in a concentrated “pulse” approximately equal distances between seeds within a common seed furrow and/or between seed furrows to improved nutrient use efficiency by minimizing soil to fertilizer contact and subsequent chemical reactions that make applied supplemental nutrients less available to plants. Pressurized air may be utilized to assist discharge of both the seed and fertilizer from the disc meter to assure precise spacing in the soil. A cover may be placed on the meter and metering disc to recirculate air and thus minimize potential atmospheric contamination from seed coatings and fertilizer materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: AGCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nyle C. Wollenhaupt, Edward L. Swenson
  • Patent number: 4275550
    Abstract: As the baler advances across the field picking up windrowed crop material, the material is continuously packed into the lower, open end of an upwardly curved duct leading to the bottom of the main baling chamber. A loading fork sweeps upwardly through the duct at regular intervals to stuff an accumulated charge of materials up into the baling chamber from the duct, and a packer at the mouth of the duct continuously adds new material to the duct at such a rate as to precompress the charge of materials accumulating within the duct prior to stuffing thereof into the bale chamber. If the precompressed charge reaches a certain predetermined density level between stuffing cycles, the duct may expand transversely via a spring-loaded sidewall thereof to keep the charge from substantially exceeding the selected density level yet permit the uninterrupted infeed of still further material pending the next operation of the loading fork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1981
    Assignee: Hesston Corporation
    Inventors: Edward L. Swenson, Howard L. Ratzlaff
  • Patent number: 4155298
    Abstract: The baling chamber of a rotary baler has an outlet adjacent its front end which must be closed to prevent the escape of crop material when a bale-forming operation is started but must be opened at a certain later point in the operation to allow some materials to escape. A gate disposed within the path of crop flow through the outlet can be shifted between a closed position completely blocking the egress of material and an opened position in which the gate is substantially on edge with respect to the crop flow so as to permit the unhindered movement of crop material through the outlet. The gate is hinged to a stationary scraper that discourages wrapping of crop material around an adjacent roller, and movement of the gate is coordinated with enlargement of the baling chamber during formation so that the gate is opened after the chamber reaches a predetermined size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1979
    Assignee: Hesston Corporation
    Inventors: Melvin V. Gaeddert, Edward L. Swenson
  • Patent number: 4145964
    Abstract: Method for semicontinuous formation of round bales is permitted by positively capturing material introduced into the bale-forming chamber of a round baler after ejection of the last-formed bale and while the web normally defining the chamber remains displaced from its forming position. In one embodiment, the crop-capturing function is performed by a grid comprising a plurality of parallel, upwardly arcuate, elongate bars forwardly mounted on the baler for swinging movement about a transverse axis toward and away from the lower apron of the chamber. Another embodiment employs a rearwardly mounted, vertically swingable grid of parallel, substantially rectilinear, elongate bars to positively retain crop material in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Assignee: Hesston Corporation
    Inventors: Edward L. Swenson, Thomas W. Ankenman
  • Patent number: 4135352
    Abstract: Semicontinuous formation of round bales is permitted by positively capturing material introduced into the bale-forming chamber of a round baler after ejection of the last-formed bale and while the web normally defining the chamber remains displaced from its forming position. In one embodiment, the crop-capturing function is performed by a grid comprising a plurality of parallel, upwardly arcuate, elongate bars forwardly mounted on the baler for swinging movement about a transverse axis toward and away from the lower apron of the chamber. Another embodiment employs a rearwardly mounted, vertically swingable grid of parallel, substantially rectilinear, elongate bars to positively retain crop material in the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Hesston Corporation
    Inventors: Edward L. Swenson, Thomas W. Ankenman
  • Patent number: D268678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1983
    Assignee: Hesston Corporation
    Inventors: Edward L. Swenson, Allen K. Roth, Larry B. Jones, Richard J. Robbins