Patents by Inventor Karel M.C. Viaene
Karel M.C. Viaene 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).
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Publication number: 20230013330Abstract: A controller for a harvester. The controller is configured to receive crop flow information representative of how crop is flowing through the harvester and generate display information for providing a visual display to an operator of the harvester. The visual display includes an animation of crop flowing through the harvester. The controller is further configured to set one or more properties of the animation of the crop flowing through the harvester based on the received crop flow information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Bart M.A. Missotten, Glenn Aesaert, Michael Carpentier, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Thomas Mahieu, Ricardo Mesquita, Karel M.C. Viaene, Bart Vroman, Johnny M.F. Scherrens
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Publication number: 20200178460Abstract: A controller for a harvester. The controller is configured to receive crop flow information representative of how crop is flowing through the harvester and generate display information for providing a visual display to an operator of the harvester. The visual display includes an animation of crop flowing through the harvester. The controller is further configured to set one or more properties of the animation of the crop flowing through the harvester based on the received crop flow information.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Bart M.A. Missotten, Glenn Aesaert, Michael Carpentier, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Thomas Mahieu, Ricardo Mesquita, Karel M.C. Viaene, Bart Vroman, Johnny M.F. Scherrens
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Publication number: 20190150361Abstract: The present invention is in particular related to an agricultural harvesting vehicle, such as a combine harvester for gathering crops from a field and processing the crops in order to separate grain kernels from residue material such as stalks and leaves. The harvesting vehicle of the invention is provided with a cleaning section comprising a blower (10) and at least one sieve (3, 5), usually a set of an upper and lower sieve. The sieves (3, 5) are configured to transport a layer comprising a mixture of grain kernels and residue material towards an exit edge (16) of the sieve so that kernels fall through the sieve's openings and residue remains on the sieve until it is ejected from the sieve by crossing the exit edge (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Glenn Aesaert, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Thomas Mahieu, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20170370959Abstract: An air sensor system including a pressure or airflow sensor, a filter housing that defines an air flow path to the air pressure sensor, and a filter in the air flow path. The filter includes a micro filter and a hydrophobic membrane. The hydrophobic membrane is downstream of the micro filter in the air flow path to the pressure or airflow sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Bart M.A. Missotten, Glenn Aesaert, Michael Carpentier, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Brecht Vanmullem, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20170276534Abstract: An unloading automation system for unloading of harvested crop from an agricultural vehicle, such as a combine harvester, into a container. The container may be part of a vehicle container combination that is arranged to maneuver next to the agricultural vehicle in the field. The unloading automation system includes a filling degree measurement system and position measurement system, wherein the position measurement is based on UWB technology. This non-optical technology improves measurement results in dusty environments. The filing degree measurement system and the position measurement system have at least one UWB tag or base station in common.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Koen J.J. Vermue, Bart M.A. Missotten, Thomas Mahieu, Karel M.C. Viaene, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Glenn Aesaert
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Publication number: 20170231156Abstract: A harvesting vehicle including a cleaning section including a blower and at least one sieve. The sieve is configured to transport a layer comprising a mixture of grain kernels and residue material towards an exit edge of the sieve so that kernels fall through openings of the sieve and the residue remains on the sieve until it is ejected from the sieve by crossing the exit edge. The sieve may be subject to a grain loss, including a sieve-off loss and a blowout loss. The cleaning section further includes a sensor configured to determine whether the blowout loss or the sieve-off loss is a highest contributor to the grain loss. The cleaning section may also include a grain loss detector configured to measure the sieve-off loss and at least a portion of the blowout loss and a blowout sensor mounted above the sieve for measuring the blowout loss.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Glenn Aesaert, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Thomas Mahieu, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20170196169Abstract: A cleaning section of an agricultural harvester. The cleaning section including a sieve, a plurality of load sensors, and a sieve slope compensating system. The sieve is positioned in the harvester to receive crop material from a threshing section. The plurality of load sensors are coupled to the sieve. The load sensors are configured to produce signals representative of a distributed load of the crop material on the sieve. The sieve slope compensating system is configured to tilt or side shake the sieve dependent upon the signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2015Publication date: July 13, 2017Inventors: Frank R.G. Duquesne, Bart M.A. Missotten, Glenn Aesaert, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Thomas Mahieu, Frederik Tallir, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20170086377Abstract: An agricultural harvester including a sensor for measuring a position of an object in surroundings of the harvester. The sensor is connected to a processor for defining at least two different danger zones respectively corresponding to at least two different sets of harvester driving parameter values. The processor can determine actual harvester driving parameter values, and the processor can compare the actual harvester driving parameter values with the different sets to select a matching set and to select a corresponding one of the danger zones. The processor outputs a warning signal if the position is in the corresponding danger zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Dré W.J. Jongmans, Bart M.A. Missotten, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20170086373Abstract: An agricultural combine including a residue spreading system that is steerable to influence distribution of the residue spreading system. The combine is provided with a sensor provided for emitting a wave signal through the residue when the combine is spreading the residue. The sensor is configured to measure reflections of the signal from a first zone of the residue and from a second zone of the residue. The spreading system is steered based on the reflections. The wave signal has a wavelength that is larger than 0.001 mm and that is smaller than 50 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Thomas Mahieu, Bart M.A. Missotten, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20170055455Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for harvesting crops from a field and to a method for working a field by towing an apparatus such as a tilling apparatus, wherein the methods of the invention employ manned and unmanned vehicles. The operation and movement of the unmanned vehicles is controlled by the drivers of the manned vehicles which are continuously in the vicinity of the unmanned vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Bart M.A. Missotten, Christopher A. Foster, Neseth Cora Kong, John H. Posselius, Frederik Tallir, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20160345491Abstract: A controller for a harvester. The controller is configured to receive crop flow information representative of how crop is flowing through the harvester and generate display information for providing a visual display to an operator of the harvester. The visual display includes an animation of crop flowing through the harvester. The controller is further configured to set one or more properties of the animation of the crop flowing through the harvester based on the received crop flow information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventors: Bart M.A. Missotten, Glenn Aesaert, Michael Carpentier, Dré W.J. Jongmans, Thomas Mahieu, Ricardo Mesquita, Karel M.C. Viaene, Bart Vroman, Johnny M.F. Scherrens
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Publication number: 20160323519Abstract: A sensor arrangement for a forage harvester. The sensor arrangement includes a frame, a CCD or CMOS camera mounted to the frame in a first position, and a time-of-flight camera mounted to the frame in a second position. The CCD or CMOS camera is mounted to the frame in the first position such that, when a filling wagon is located with respect to the forage harvester in a filling position, a first image of at least a portion of the filling wagon is capturable by the first camera. The time-of-flight camera is mounted to the frame in the second position such that, when the filling wagon is located with respect to the forage harvester in the filling position, a second image of a segment of the portion is capturable by the second camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Joachim Boydens, Bart M.A. Missotten, Pieter Vanysacker, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20160270286Abstract: A forage harvester including a header for picking up a swath from a ground surface. The header includes a first and a second distance sensor adapted to measure a sensor-to-target distance respectively along a first and second sensor axis. The first distance sensor is mounted at a first lateral end of the header, and the second distance sensor is mounted at a second lateral end of the header. The first and second distance sensors are positioned such that, when the forage harvester is placed on an even ground surface, the first sensor axis crosses the second sensor axis before reaching the even ground surface in front of the harvester.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Joachim Boydens, Pieter Vanysacker, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20160249533Abstract: A controller for an unloading system. The unloading system comprises an unloading vehicle having an unloading apparatus and a collection vehicle having a container. The unloading apparatus is configured to direct material to the container driven in the vicinity of the unloading vehicle. The controller is configured to: receive image data representative of at least a portion of the container; receive a path information signal representative of a path that is to be followed by the unloading vehicle or the collection vehicle; and set an attribute of the unloading apparatus, the unloading vehicle, or the collection vehicle in accordance with the image data and the path information signal in order to direct the material from the unloading apparatus to the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2014Publication date: September 1, 2016Inventors: Ward M.R. Byttebier, Bernard E.D. Depestel, Pieter Vanysacker, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20160192590Abstract: An unloading apparatus is arranged to direct material to a container. A controller determines a build-up speed of the material in the container; in accordance with the determined build-up speed, determine a rate of change to be applied when setting an attribute of at least one of the unloading apparatus and container; and set an attribute of at least one of the unloading apparatus and container in accordance with the determined rate of change in order to direct the material from the unloading apparatus to the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2014Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Ward M.R. Byttebier, Bernard E.D. Depestel, Karel M.C. Viaene, Pieter Vanysacker
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Publication number: 20160113199Abstract: A corn header includes a plurality of harvesting units to separate corn ears from corn stalks. Each harvesting unit has a deck plate assembly, and an actuator assembly to adjust a width of a stalk receiving channel by adjusting a position of at least a deck plate of the deck plate assembly. A kernel sensor can generate a signal representative of the presence of kernels detached from the ears during the separation of the corn ears from the corn stalks by the harvesting units and a control unit to receive the signal from the kernel sensor and generate an actuator control signal for controlling the actuator assemblies of the plurality of harvesting units, thereby controlling the width of the stalk receiving channels of the harvesting units.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Dre Jongmans, Bart M.A. Missotten, Frederik Tallir, Willem Vandamme, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20140300707Abstract: An agricultural harvesting machine, equipped with a movable unloading apparatus to transport crop material to a container driven in the vicinity, so that the container, seen from the harvester, has a near upper border and a remote upper border, and wherein a 3D camera is provided on the harvester for capturing images in which at least the near border can be seen, to direct the unloading apparatus based on these images. The camera is rotatable mounted around a substantially horizontal axis. The angle of rotation of the rotatable camera can be arranged such that the near border always remains in the field of view of the camera. The unloading apparatus can be controlled such that the processed crop material is deposited in the container at a predetermined distance from the near border.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Inventors: Karel M.C. Viaene, Bart M.A. Missotten, Bernard E.D. Depestel
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Publication number: 20140202126Abstract: A vibration sensor is mounted on the central shaft, such that it senses vibrations induced into the feed roll assembly in a direction transverse to the rotational axis of the feed roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: CNH America LLCInventors: Bernard E.D. Depestel, Dirk J. Desnijder, Bart M.A. Missotten, Benoit Debilde, Karel M.C. Viaene
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Publication number: 20120316737Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for directing a movable unloading apparatus (1) of an agricultural harvesting machine to a container (4) driven adjacent the harvesting machine, the container comprising—as seen from the harvesting machine—near and remote upper borders (6,8). An image of the container is taken by a 3-D camera, in the form of an array of pixels, wherein the camera also generates for each pixel a value of the distance between the camera and the object in the image. The image is analysed by selecting a number of vertical strips (21,22,23) in the image, determining the filtered distance values for each vertical position along the strips, and determining from these distance values the positions of the near and remote upper borders (6,8).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2011Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: CNH America LLCInventors: Bart M.A. Missotten, Didier O.M. Verhaeghe, Ward M.R. Byttebier, Karel M.C. Viaene