Patents by Inventor Kai Oetzel

Kai Oetzel 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).

  • Device and method for coordinating a machine fleet
    Patent number: 7873617
    Abstract: A device for coordinating a machine fleet includes a memory for storing a large number of data records, an interface for communicating with several users who are capable of making changes to the data records, in the case of which each data record represents a given portion of the working capacity of a machine in the machine fleet, and the changes relate to the assignment of the portion of the working capacity represented by the data record to the users making the change, and an administration unit designed to allow a change to be made to a data record by a user requesting the change if the data record is not assigned to any other user and an urgency of the change indicated by the requesting user reaches a threshold specified for the particular portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbsfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel, Werner Fitzner, Norbert Diekhans, Kai Oetzel
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COORDINATING A MACHINE FLEET
    Publication number: 20080098035
    Abstract: A device for coordinating a machine fleet includes a memory for storing a large number of data records, an interface for communicating with several users who are capable of making changes to the data records, in the case of which each data record represents a given portion of the working capacity of a machine in the machine fleet, and the changes relate to the assignment of the portion of the working capacity represented by the data record to the users making the change, and an administration unit designed to allow a change to be made to a data record by a user requesting the change if the data record is not assigned to any other user and an urgency of the change indicated by the requesting user reaches a threshold specified for the particular portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel, Werner Fitzner, Norbert Diekhans, Kai Oetzel
  • Mobile on-board computer system with operation units for machines
    Patent number: 5889671
    Abstract: An on-board computer system for machines has comprising a computer unit, a plurality of operation units for the machines such that the machines are adjustable, controllable and regulatable through the computer unit by adjusting values stored or inputted in the computer unit, inputting means for completing and changing data stored in said computer unit, an exchangeable operator plate having indicating and inputting means, and a mobile case accommodating the computer unit and formed so that the mobile sleeve is releasably connectable with the working machine and mountable on different working machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Ludger Autermann, Klaus Kollmeier, Thilo Steckel, Klaudia Klasbrummel, Kai Oetzel, Hans-Herrmann Wippersteg, Stefan Bottinger, Ernst Josef Schligten