Patents by Inventor Kilian Wolff
Kilian Wolff 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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Patent number: 11944046Abstract: An agricultural machine applies liquid material to a field. Valve control signals control valves to apply the liquid material. Row pressure on the agricultural machine is sensed to identify when the valve is opened to apply the liquid material. The valve control signals are generated, based on the row pressure, to control the valves to apply the liquid material at a desired location in the field, relative to plant locations in the field.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Grant J. Wonderlich, Kenneth Herrmann, Michael C. Steele, Kilian Wolff, Gerrit Pruessmann
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Patent number: 11930732Abstract: An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Roland Werner, Richard A. Humpal, Wolfram Haiges
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Patent number: 11912261Abstract: A system for picking up, bundling and depositing agricultural material having a traction vehicle and a towed implement, the system comprising: an actuator associated with the implement; a control device configured to generate control data for controlling the orientation of the implement and steering of the traction vehicle, the control data including information relating to the orientation of the implement adjustable by the actuator, a desired orientation of the deposited agricultural material and at least one of a speed and a direction of travel of the traction vehicle; and wherein, using the control data, the actuator adjusts the orientation about a vertical axis of the implement relative to the traction vehicle to deposit the agricultural material.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Kilian Wolff, Daniel Rossnagel
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Patent number: 11606910Abstract: A harvesting machine comprises a crop conveying channel with a movable bottom flap coupled to a hydraulic actuator controlling the position of the flap and a crop throughput sensing arrangement with a pressure sensor adapted to sense a hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic actuator.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Martin Seimetz, Kilian Wolff, Benedikt Jung, Pierre Dommange, Daniel E. Derscheid, Cole L. Murray
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Publication number: 20220007564Abstract: A method performing an agricultural task on a field, the method comprising: identifying a number of plants in the field on a per unit area; determining a field pattern of plant maintenance for the plants in the field, the field pattern comprising: a planting instruction for travel in a first direction; and a plant maintenance instruction for travel in a second direction which is not parallel to the first direction, the plant maintenance instruction generated using at least one parameter corresponding to the number of plants in the field on a per unit area.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: KILIAN WOLFF, STEFAN KUEBLER, FLORIAN REINMUTH, GEORG KORMANN, AKSHAY KUMAR
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Publication number: 20210345540Abstract: An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Roland Werner, Richard A. Humpal, Wolfram Haiges
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Patent number: 11083130Abstract: An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Kilian Wolff, Roland Werner, Richard A. Humpal, Wolfram Haiges
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Publication number: 20210188240Abstract: A system for picking up, bundling and depositing agricultural material having a traction vehicle and a towed implement, the system comprising: an actuator associated with the implement; a control device configured to generate control data for controlling the orientation of the implement and steering of the traction vehicle, the control data including information relating to the orientation of the implement adjustable by the actuator, a desired orientation of the deposited agricultural material and at least one of a speed and a direction of travel of the traction vehicle; and wherein, using the control data, the actuator adjusts the orientation about a vertical axis of the implement relative to the traction vehicle to deposit the agricultural material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Daniel Rossnagel
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Publication number: 20200260645Abstract: A harvesting machine comprises a crop conveying channel with a movable bottom flap coupled to a hydraulic actuator controlling the position of the flap and a crop throughput sensing arrangement with a pressure sensor adapted to sense a hydraulic pressure in the hydraulic actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Martin Seimetz, Kilian Wolff, Benedikt Jung, Pierre Dommange, Daniel E. Derscheid, Cole L. Murray
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Publication number: 20200037519Abstract: An agricultural machine applies liquid material to a field. Valve control signals control valves to apply the liquid material. Row pressure on the agricultural machine is sensed to identify when the valve is opened to apply the liquid material. The valve control signals are generated, based on the row pressure, to control the valves to apply the liquid material at a desired location in the field, relative to plant locations in the field.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Grant J. WONDERLICH, Kenneth HERRMANN, Michael C. STEELE, Kilian WOLFF, Gerrit PRUESSMANN
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Publication number: 20190357426Abstract: An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2018Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Roland Werner, Richard A. Humpal, Wolfram Haiges
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Patent number: 10308179Abstract: Device and method for providing a vehicle surround view for a vehicle, which is located on a driving plane, comprising vehicle cameras, which provide camera images of a vehicle environment of the vehicle, a location-detection unit, which detects a change in location of at least one vehicle camera relative to the driving plane of the vehicle, and comprising an image data processing unit which projects the camera images provided by the vehicle cameras onto a projection surface to generate the vehicle surround view, which projection surface is adapted according to the detected change in location of the vehicle camera.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignees: Conti Temic Microelectronic GMBH, Deere & CompanyInventors: Johannes Petzold, Kilian Wolff, Denis Selensky, Wolfram Haiges
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Patent number: 10266117Abstract: A device for providing a vehicle environment view for a vehicle includes a plurality of vehicle cameras configured to provide camera images of a vehicle environment of the vehicle, and an image data processing unit configured, based on a detected movement space of at least one vehicle component of the vehicle and/or of the entire vehicle, to adapt a projection surface onto which the camera images provided by the vehicle cameras are projected to generate the vehicle environment view.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignees: Conti Temic Microelectronic GMBH, Deere & CompanyInventors: Johannes Petzold, Kilian Wolff
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Patent number: 9848528Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment, a method and a machine for planting seeds or plants in a field to enable a planting of the seeds or plants in an established spacing based on two-dimensional coordinates output by a positioning system and the slope of the field in the working direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Roland Werner, Christian Bartolein, Kilian Wolff, Marcus Reutemann, Uwe Vollmar
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Publication number: 20170120820Abstract: Device and method for providing a vehicle surround view for a vehicle, which is located on a driving plane, comprising vehicle cameras, which provide camera images of a vehicle environment of the vehicle, a location-detection unit, which detects a change in location of at least one vehicle camera relative to the driving plane of the vehicle, and comprising an image data processing unit which projects the camera images provided by the vehicle cameras onto a projection surface to generate the vehicle surround view, which projection surface is adapted according to the detected change in location of the vehicle camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2016Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Johannes Petzold, Kilian Wolff, Denis Selensky, Wolfram Haiges
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Publication number: 20170120822Abstract: A device for providing a vehicle environment view for a vehicle includes a plurality of vehicle cameras configured to provide camera images of a vehicle environment of the vehicle, and an image data processing unit configured, based on a detected movement space of at least one vehicle component of the vehicle and/or of the entire vehicle, to adapt a projection surface onto which the camera images provided by the vehicle cameras are projected to generate the vehicle environment view.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2016Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Johannes Petzold, Kilian Wolff
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Publication number: 20170071124Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment, a method and a machine for planting seeds or plants in a field to enable a planting of the seeds or plants in an established spacing based on two-dimensional coordinates output by a positioning system and the slope of the field in the working direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Roland Werner, Christian Bartolein, Kilian Wolff, Marcus Reutemann, Uwe Vollmar
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Patent number: 9179595Abstract: An assembly and a method for the precision drilling of seed grains use a drilling machine with at least one row unit which is assigned a drive set up for instigating delivery of a seed grain into a furrow, and a control system which is connected to a position-determining system, to a memory device for storing delivery positions of seed grains, to the drive of the row unit and to a seed material sensor for detecting the actual delivery position of the seed grains in the furrow. The control system controls the drive based on signals from the position-determining system, the memory device and the seed material sensor so that the seed grains are delivered successively at the delivery positions.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Georg Kormann, Kilian Wolff, Uwe Vollmar
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Publication number: 20140076216Abstract: An assembly and a method for the precision drilling of seed grains use a drilling machine with at least one row unit which is assigned a drive set up for instigating delivery of a seed grain into a furrow, and a control system which is connected to a position-determining system, to a memory device for storing delivery positions of seed grains, to the drive of the row unit and to a seed material sensor for detecting the actual delivery position of the seed grains in the furrow. The control system controls the drive based on signals from the position-determining system, the memory device and the seed material sensor so that the seed grains are delivered successively at the delivery positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Inventors: GEORG KORMANN, Kilian Wolff, Uwe Vollmar