Patents by Inventor Norbert Diekhans
Norbert Diekhans 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: 9795082Abstract: An agricultural working machine embodying a combine harvester for processing crop includes an intake conveyor mechanism for picking up the crop, a moisture content sensor arrangement for measuring a moisture content of the picked-up crop and generating a crop moisture signal based on the measured moisture content. A throughput sensor arrangement, preferably a layer thickness sensor arrangement, determines a throughput quantity of the picked-up crop. The crop moisture content signal is corrected on a basis of the throughput quantity that is determined.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Rene Middelberg, Markus Brune, Frank Claussen, Norbert Diekhans
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Publication number: 20150245560Abstract: An agricultural working machine embodying a combine harvester for processing crop includes an intake conveyor mechanism for picking up the crop, a moisture content sensor arrangement for measuring a moisture content of the picked-up crop and generating a crop moisture signal based on the measured moisture content. A throughput sensor arrangement, preferably a layer thickness sensor arrangement, determines a throughput quantity of the picked-up crop. The crop moisture content signal is corrected on a basis of the throughput quantity that is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2015Publication date: September 3, 2015Inventors: RENE MIDDELBERG, MARKUS BRUNE, FRANK CLAUSSEN, NORBERT DIEKHANS
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Patent number: 9089092Abstract: A self-propelled harvesting machine includes an intake assembly configured to pick up crop from a field and conveying the crop, a processing assembly for receiving the conveyed by the intake assembly and a sensor for estimating the crop throughput of the intake assembly and a ground drive. The forward speed (V) of the ground drive and a drive speed (C) of the intake assembly can vary depending on the crop throughput.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Norbert Diekhans, Bastian Kriebel
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Patent number: 8814640Abstract: A harvesting system includes a self-propelled harvesting machine and a drivable collecting container equipped with a drive unit, which can be positioned relative to the harvesting machine and moved in parallel therewith. Crop is fed directly or indirectly to the collecting container during harvesting operation from the harvesting machine using a feed pipe equipped with an outlet chute. The collecting container is equipped with a device for loading it with crop in a uniform manner. The collecting container is moved in a constant position relative to the harvesting machine by way of a control device while the crop is being conveyed. The collecting container is preferably a filling device, by way of which uniform distribution of the crop in the collecting container (8) can be attained.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Willi Behnke, Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Thilo Krause, Bastian Kriebel, Frank Claussen, Markus Brune
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Publication number: 20140059988Abstract: A self-propelled harvesting machine includes an intake assembly configured to pick up crop from a field and conveying the crop, a processing assembly for receiving the conveyed by the intake assembly, means for estimating the crop throughput of the intake assembly and a ground drive. The forward speed (V) of the ground drive and a drive speed (C) of the intake assembly can vary depending on the crop throughput.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: CLAAS SELBSTFAHRENDE ERNTEMASCHINEN GMBHInventors: Norbert Diekhans, Bastian Kriebel
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Patent number: 8662972Abstract: A method for unloading crop stored in a grain tank of a self-propelled combine harvester into a drivable collecting container equipped with a drive unit includes positioning the collecting container relative to the combine harvester and moving the collecting container parallel thereto while the crop is fed to the collecting container directly or indirectly by way of a grain tank discharge pipe equipped with an outlet chute, simultaneously with the harvesting operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Willi Behnke, Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Thilo Krause, Bastian Kriebel, Frank Claussen, Markus Brune
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Patent number: 8610445Abstract: A measuring device for measuring components of a crop material is installed on an agricultural machine and includes at least one conductance sensor, determining the component “moisture content”, which is determined via the temperature-compensated detection of conductance. In this manner it is ensured that the measuring device delivers reliable measurement results for determining the components of a crop material even under fluctuating measuring conditions.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2008Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Norbert Diekhans, Bastian Kriebel, Frank Claussen
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Publication number: 20130243562Abstract: A method for unloading crop stored in a grain tank of a self-propelled combine harvester into a drivable collecting container equipped with a drive unit includes positioning the collecting container relative to the combine harvester and moving the collecting container parallel thereto while the crop is fed to the collecting container directly or indirectly by way of a grain tank discharge pipe equipped with an outlet chute, simultaneously with the harvesting operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Willi Behnke, Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Thilo Krause, Bastian Kriebel, Frank Claussen, Markus Brune
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Patent number: 8428830Abstract: An agricultural working vehicle has a plurality of working assemblies, at least one control unit for influencing the setting parameters of the working assemblies, a memory unit, and at least one display unit, and it is configured such that even an untrained operator may optimize the setting parameters of the working assemblies in a rapid, reliable manner. An expected change in the function and/or the working result of individual working assemblies or a plurality of working assemblies is depicted in the display unit in a manner that depends on how an operator influences individual setting parameters of the working assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Norbert Diekhans, Lars Peter Meyer Zu Helligen
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Patent number: 8428829Abstract: Vehicles, in particular self-propelled agricultural harvesting machines such as forage harvesters or combine harvesters designed to pick up and process crops, include transfer devices that transfer all of the harvested crop material to a hauling vehicle or an attached hauling container. The discharge device is equipped with a control device for performing automatic or manual adjustments, and the self-propelled agricultural harvesting machine is equipped with a navigation system for determining the positions of the vehicles involved. To transfer the crop material to the hauling vehicle without loss, the crop discharge flow is directed only to a defined permissible tolerance region on the hauling container. The tolerance region is located within the hauling container contour and is bounded by edge zones, which are “keep-out” zones for the transfer.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Andreas Brunnert, Lars Meyer Zu Helligen, Gerhard Nienaber, Norbert Diekhans
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Patent number: 8332135Abstract: Generation of one or more reference driving tracks for use in automatic route planning of an agricultural working vehicle includes driving along a starting route of an agricultural field to be worked, recording the starting route in a data processing device, selecting at least one section of the recorded starting route as a reference driving track, investigating the starting route along its entire length for changes in direction, and in the selecting at least one section, selecting a section as the reference driving track only if a change in direction that falls below a limit value is not found anywhere along an entire length of the section.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Norbert Diekhans, Lars Meyer Zu Helligen, Gerhard Nienaber
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Publication number: 20120302299Abstract: A harvesting system includes a self-propelled harvesting machine and a drivable collecting container equipped with a drive unit, which can be positioned relative to the harvesting machine and moved in parallel therewith. Crop is fed directly or indirectly to the collecting container during harvesting operation from the harvesting machine using a feed pipe equipped with an outlet chute. The collecting container is equipped with a device for loading it with crop in a uniform manner. The collecting container is moved in a constant position relative to the harvesting machine by way of a control device while the crop is being conveyed. The collecting container is preferably a filling device, by way of which uniform distribution of the crop in the collecting container (8) can be attained.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventors: Willi Behnke, Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Thilo Krause, Bastian Kriebel, Frank Claussen, Markus Brune
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Publication number: 20120263560Abstract: A system for controlling crop transfer from a self-propelled agricultural harvesting machine into the loading container of a hauling vehicle includes a transfer device assigned to the harvesting machine from which the crop emerges in the form of a crop discharge flow and a detection device which detects the position of the loading container relative to the harvesting machine and transmits it to a control unit. The control unit actuates at least one actuator assigned to the transfer device in such a way that the crop discharge flow lands within the loading container in order to fill it with crop. The control unit generates a control signal (S) for the hauling vehicle that specifies a position of the hauling vehicle relative to the harvesting machine that is suitable for transfer into the loading container.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Inventors: Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Frank Claussen
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Publication number: 20120265412Abstract: An agricultural hauling vehicle for receiving material from a traveling original vehicle during travel adjacent to the original vehicle is provided with a hauling container that is fillable from above for receiving the material. A sensor detects the distribution of the material in the hauling container and a control unit varies the position of the hauling vehicle relative to the traveling original vehicle on the basis of the distribution of material detected by the sensor. Preferably the sensor is a camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Inventors: Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Frank Claussen, Max Reinecke
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Patent number: 8285459Abstract: In a route planning system and method for agricultural working machines, a defined working width is assigned to the agricultural working machines to generate driving routes in a territory, and dynamic adaptation of the planned driving route is carried out thereby ensuring that the driving route to be covered is flexibly adaptable to changing external conditions such as driving around obstacles, thereby largely relieving the operator of the agricultural working machine of the task of performing laborious steering maneuvers.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2008Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Andreas Brunnert
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Publication number: 20120123650Abstract: An agricultural harvesting machine comprising a chopping assembly for fragmenting crop, and a camera situated downstream of the chopping assembly in order to optically detect the fragmented crop and produce images of the fragmented crop, wherein the camera is connected to an image evaluation device which can be operated to detect edges in the generated images in order to deduce properties of the fragmented crop.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventors: Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Frank Claussen
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Patent number: 8170785Abstract: For creating a route plan for a group of agricultural working machine systems for working a territory, the machine systems include route planning data determination devices and they exchange data with each other and, based on exchanged route planning data, one shared route plan is created for the particular territory. For controlling a group of agricultural working machine systems while it works a territory, one shared route plan—which has been created accordingly—is used, and a route planning system is provided for creating a route plan for a group of agricultural working machine systems to be used to work a territory.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Andreas Brunnert, Lars-Peter Meyer Zu Helligen
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Patent number: 8046139Abstract: For controlling several agricultural machine systems during operation on a territory, based on a reference line, an optimized route for working the territory is determined for the particular machine system, and the particular machine system is driven along this route. The reference line is determined by recording a reference path that was driven along with a first machine system, and the first machine system is controlled based on this reference line with consideration for the working conditions of the first machine system. This reference line is also transmitted by the first machine system to at least one second machine system, which is controlled based on this reference line of the first machine system and with consideration for the working conditions of the second machine system. A corresponding control system for controlling several agricultural machine systems during operation of a territory is also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2007Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Andreas Brunnert, Lars-Peter Meyer Zu Helligen
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Patent number: 7873617Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: CLAAS Selbsfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel, Werner Fitzner, Norbert Diekhans, Kai Oetzel
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Patent number: 7846013Abstract: The invention relates to a combine with a cleaning device (1), having a screening device (2) with at least one screen (2A, 2B) in which the harvested products conveyed to the thresher and to the separation device are cleaned and at least one adjustable blower (3) for exposing the screening device (3) to an air flow. The width of the openings of the sifting device (2) and the revolutions of the blower (3) can be mechanically regulated by at least one regulation organ. According to the invention, at least one sensor (4) is provided whose measuring signal (S/4) directly or indirectly indicates a quantity of harvested products loaded on the combine, especially on the cleaning device. Optimal regulation of the cleaning device, especially the width of the openings of the screen, is performed by an adjusting organ (20A, 20B) depending on the signal (S/4) of the sensor (4).Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2000Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventor: Norbert Diekhans