Patents by Inventor Martin Buschmann
Martin Buschmann 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: 12281450Abstract: A method is provided for adjusting a temperature of a screed plate of a paving screed of a road paver, wherein the paving screed comprises a heating element for heating the screed plate. The method may include measuring temperature of the screed plate over a time interval using a temperature sensor, and adjusting a target temperature of the heating element, depending on a time profile of the temperature of the screed plate, using a control unit of the road paver.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Joseph Voegele AGInventors: Martin Buschmann, Roman Munz, Ralf Weiser, Dennis Hanfland
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Patent number: 12270160Abstract: A channel plate arrangement for a road finishing machine comprises an extension means including a first channel plate which is movably mounted in a horizontal direction with respect to the channel plate arrangement to variably adjust an effective width of the channel plate arrangement, and a second channel plate connected to the first channel plate. The second channel plate is arranged at the first channel plate in a pivoting manner to variably adjust the effective width of the channel plate arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Joseph Voegele AGInventors: Martin Buschmann, Frank Grimm, Bernhard Erdtmann, Thomas Seither, Alessandro De Santis, Nicole Angermann, Christian Jenewein
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Patent number: 12115887Abstract: A control platform for a construction machine, in particular for a road finishing machine or a feeder vehicle, comprising a structural element and a seat console which includes a console bottom and a seat. The seat console includes a rotary mechanism by which the seat is mounted to be rotatable relative to the console bottom. The seat console includes a first and a second linear shifting mechanism by which the seat is mounted on the console bottom to be movable in a first and a second direction. The seat console is hinged to the structural element by a swivel mechanism to be swivable relative to the structural element.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Joseph Voegele AGInventors: Martin Buschmann, Ralf Weiser, Maximilian Theobald
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Patent number: 12091826Abstract: A road finishing machine comprises a screed, which includes at least one compacting unit. The road finishing machine furthermore comprises a GNSS receiver, as well as a material conveyor. The road finishing machine furthermore comprises an electronic control system which comprises a memory and a data processor, wherein in the memory, digital construction data, in particular a nominal height profile of a road pavement to be finished, are stored. The control system is configured to automatically control, based on the construction data, an actuator mechanism provided on the road finishing machine, in particular a levelling cylinder and/or a transverse camber adjustment and/or a slope adjustment and/or a berm adjustment, in order to install laying material with the nominal height profile and thereby a defined transverse profile for the respective position coordinate point of the road finishing machine determined with the GNSS receiver.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Joseph Voegele AGInventors: Martin Buschmann, Ralf Weiser
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Publication number: 20240301634Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for dynamically controlling a paving speed of at least one road paver for a paving process, wherein by a control system functionally connected to the road paver, a paving speed for the road paver adapted to the determined material delivery rate is determined as a function of a variable material delivery rate of a material supply chain supplying the road paver with paving material determined thereby, wherein a pre-compaction performance of at least one pre-compaction element of a paving screed of the road paver is adjusted as a function of the determined paving speed in order to keep a pre-compaction achieved by the pre-compaction element constant. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a road construction system for a paving process for producing a constant pre-compaction at varying paving speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicants: Joseph Vögele AG, DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Tammo WAGNER, Martin BUSCHMANN
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Publication number: 20240201393Abstract: A self-propelled construction machine for working ground or erecting a structure thereon in a preceding work process, which is followed by another work process with another construction machine, comprises a mobile radio communications device, a GNSS receiver, a GNSS evaluation device or mobile radio evaluation device, and a GNSS evaluation variable acquisition device or mobile radio evaluation variable acquisition device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: June 20, 2024Inventors: Martin Buschmann, Henning Delius
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Patent number: 11746479Abstract: A road paver comprises a paving screed, wherein the paving screed comprises a tamper, and the road paver further comprises a GNSS receiver and a material conveyor. In addition, the road paver comprises an electronic control system, which comprises a memory and a data processor, wherein digital construction data, in particular a target height profile of a road surface to be paved, a target layer thickness of paving material and, if necessary, a height profile of a roadbase are stored in the memory. The control system is configured to automatically control compaction performance of the paving screed as a function of the target layer thickness in order to pave the paving material for the respective local coordinate point of the road paver determined by the GNSS receiver.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Martin Buschmann, Ralf Weiser
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Publication number: 20230193571Abstract: A method for adapting a leveling control of a road finishing machine comprises: detecting first ground profile data of a first ground profile of a foundation in a surrounding area of the road finishing machine at point in time t0, wherein the road finishing machine is located at position x0; detecting second ground profile data of a second ground profile of the foundation in a surrounding area of the road finishing machine at point in time t1, wherein the road finishing machine is located at position x1, and the second ground profile partially overlaps the first ground profile; determining a translational and rotational matrix which maps a movement of the road finishing machine in space from the point in time t0 to the point in time t1; creating corrected ground profile data from the ground profile data by means of the matrix; determining an analysis region LA comprising at least a section of the first ground profile data L0 and/or a section of the corrected ground profile data; analyzing the analysis reType: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Christian PAWLIK, Martin BUSCHMANN, Ralf WEISER, Philipp STUMPF, Stefan SIMON, Tobias NOLL
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Patent number: 11560675Abstract: A road finisher is provided for producing a paving layer on a subgrade on which the road finisher is movable along a paving direction during a paving run. The road finisher is adapted to use distance measurements to the subgrade, which can be provided to a leveling system of the road finisher, equally as measured values for determining the thickness of a layer. A respective method for determining the layer thickness is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Martin Buschmann, Tobias Noll
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Patent number: 11486102Abstract: The disclosure relates to a road finishing machine comprising a paving screed for the production of a new road pavement layer of a paving material and a unit provided on the road finishing machine to generate a dynamic compacting specification field based on thermographic geosignals with regard to at least one temperature image that exists behind the paving screed of the road finishing machine for at least one surface section of the newly installed road pavement layer. An information indication unit provided on the road finishing machine is configured to display at last one compacting message that is at least partially based on the compacting specification field to an operator of at least one compacting vehicle that follows behind the road finishing machine for compacting of the newly installed road pavement layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Martin Buschmann, Achim Eul
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Publication number: 20220290382Abstract: A road finishing machine with a screed for producing a paving layer on a subsoil includes a leveling system for height adjustment of the screed for compensating for irregularities in the subsoil. The leveling system includes a cascade control having either a central control loop between outer and inner control loops that includes a control unit to determine, on the basis of a detected actual value of a pulling point position of a pulling point of the screed to a predetermined reference, and on the basis of a desired value of the pulling point position, a desired value of a leveling cylinder position, or a pulling point control between the outer and inner control loops to determine, on the basis of the desired value of the pulling point position of the pulling point of the screed, the desired value of the leveling cylinder position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Stefan SIMON, Philipp STUMPF, Ralf WEISER, Martin BUSCHMANN
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Publication number: 20220290381Abstract: A road finishing machine comprises a screed for producing a paving layer from a paving material, a material bunker for receiving the paving material, a longitudinal conveying device configured to transport the paving material from the material bunker toward the screed, and a transverse distributor auger configured to distribute the paving material transported by the longitudinal conveying device transversely in front of the screed. The transverse distributor auger is mounted in front of a screed basic body of the screed within a transverse distributor channel, which is formed at least in sections by channel plates supported at a chassis of the road finishing machine, and by pre-scrapers attached laterally of a screed basic body of the screed. The road finishing machine further includes at least one suction device with at least one intake line which is configured to suck off aerosols forming during the transverse distribution of the paving material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Martin BUSCHMANN, Ralf WEISER, Roman MUNZ
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Publication number: 20220290383Abstract: A method for producing a road surface includes spatially measuring an existing road surface by a sensor; creating digital target milling profile; creating a digital target height profile of a road surface to be paved and calculating a layer thickness based on the target milling profile and the target height profile; at least partially automated controlling of a milling machine for milling an actual milling profile according to the specification of the target milling profile; spatially measuring the milled actual milling profile; and at least partially automated controlling of a road paver for paving the road surface in accordance with the specification of the target height profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Martin BUSCHMANN, Ralf WEISER, Tobias NOLL
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Publication number: 20220251787Abstract: A method for paving a road surface, wherein a paving data set is read into an on-board computer of a road construction machine. During a paving operation, working components of the road construction machine are controlled for paving the road surface on the, basis of the read-in paving data set. Before start of the paving operation, the paving data set is compared by a computing unit with a property profile of the road construction machine stored in a profile memory and, based on a result of the comparison, an assessment is made as to whether the road construction machine is suitable for paving the road surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventor: Martin BUSCHMANN
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Publication number: 20220219573Abstract: A control platform for a construction machine, in particular for a road finishing machine or a feeder vehicle, comprising a structural element and a seat console which includes a console bottom and a seat. The seat console includes a rotary mechanism by which the seat is mounted to be rotatable relative to the console bottom. The seat console includes a first and a second linear shifting mechanism by which the seat is mounted on the console bottom to be movable in a first and a second direction. The seat console is hinged to the structural element by means of a swivel mechanism to be swivable relative to the structural element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Martin BUSCHMANN, Ralf WEISER, Maximilian THEOBALD
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Patent number: 11345235Abstract: A construction machine for building or finishing a road, such as a road finisher, comprises at least a working equipment, a display unit and a plurality of sensors. Each sensor is adapted to measure a value of an operating parameter of the construction machine. The sensors are adapted to output data corresponding to the measured values to the display unit, and the display unit is adapted to output a representation of at least a part of the construction machine together with the measured values of the operating parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventor: Martin Buschmann
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Publication number: 20220127800Abstract: A channel plate arrangement for a road finishing machine comprises an extension means including a first channel plate which is movably mounted in a horizontal direction with respect to the channel plate arrangement to variably adjust an effective width of the channel plate arrangement, and a second channel plate connected to the first channel plate. The second channel plate is arranged at the first channel plate in a pivoting manner to variably adjust the effective width of the channel plate arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Martin BUSCHMANN, Frank GRIMM, Bernhard ERDTMANN, Thomas SEITHER, Alessandro DE SANTIS, Nicole ANGERMANN, Christian JENEWEIN
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Publication number: 20220064874Abstract: A method is provided for adjusting a temperature of a screed plate of a paving screed of a road paver, wherein the paving screed comprises a heating element for heating the screed plate. The method may include measuring temperature of the screed plate over a time interval using a temperature sensor, and adjusting a target temperature of the heating element, depending on a time profile of the temperature of the screed plate, using a control unit of the road paver.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Martin BUSCHMANN, Roman MUNZ, Ralf WEISER, Dennis HANFLAND
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Publication number: 20210370776Abstract: A road paver includes a control system, a main operator control stand, a height-adjustable roof, a main drive, at least one lighting element and a paving screed. The road paver further comprises an operating unit, which is arranged outside the main operator control stand and has a plurality of operating elements, of which an operating element is operable to switch the control system on and/or off, an operating element is operable to lift and/or lower the roof an operating element is operable to start and/or stop the main drive, an operating element is operable to switch on and/or off at least one lighting element, and an operating element is operable to lift and/or lower the paving screed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Martin BUSCHMANN, Tom GLOECKNER, Ralf WEISER, Bastian FLEISCHER, Maximilian THEOBALD
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Publication number: 20210317620Abstract: A road finishing machine comprises a screed, which includes at least one compacting unit. The road finishing machine furthermore comprises a GNSS receiver, as well as a material conveyor. The road finishing machine furthermore comprises an electronic control system which comprises a memory and a data processor, wherein in the memory, digital construction data, in particular a nominal height profile of a road pavement to be finished, are stored. The control system is configured to automatically control, based on the construction data, an actuator mechanism provided on the road finishing machine, in particular a levelling cylinder and/or a transverse camber adjustment and/or a slope adjustment and/or a berm adjustment, in order to install laying material with the nominal height profile and thereby a defined transverse profile for the respective position coordinate point of the road finishing machine determined with the GNSS receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AGInventors: Martin BUSCHMANN, Ralf WEISER