Patents by Inventor Olivier Arnel Vanhercke

Olivier Arnel Vanhercke 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).

  • Patent number: 9609808
    Abstract: Agricultural baler with feeder system arranged for repeatedly feeding crop material towards a baling chamber, the feeder system includes a feeding chamber and a stuffer. The feeder system is arranged for collecting a crop material. The stuffer is arranged for repeatedly carrying out a stuffing cycle and varying an entry position and/or an exit position and/or a stroke depth. The feeder system further includes a sensor arranged for generating a signal indicative of the accumulated crop material in the feeding chamber. A controller that is arranged for triggering the stuffer to start a stuffing cycle wherein the entry position, the exit position, and/or the stroke depth, is adjusted in response to an indication by the sensor signal of the accumulated crop material in the feeding chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Robrecht M. K. Dumarey, Sandor Van Vooren, Pieter Vandevelde, Olivier Arnel Vanhercke
  • Patent number: 9439357
    Abstract: A square baler having a display system for providing the operator with an indication of the weight of completed bales to enable the operator to modify a setting of the baler that affects crop density within the bale in order to achieve a uniform bale weight. In the invention, the display serves to indicate to the operator a rolling average of the weight of a predetermined number of bales last discharged from the baler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Olivier Arnel Vanhercke
  • Publication number: 20160192592
    Abstract: Agricultural baler with feeder system arranged for repeatedly feeding crop material towards a baling chamber, the feeder system includes a feeding chamber and a stuffer. The feeder system is arranged for collecting a crop material. The stuffer is arranged for repeatedly carrying out a stuffing cycle and varying an entry position and/or an exit position and/or a stroke depth. The feeder system further includes a sensor arranged for generating a signal indicative of the accumulated crop material in the feeding chamber. A controller that is arranged for triggering the stuffer to start a stuffing cycle wherein the entry position, the exit position, and/or the stroke depth, is adjusted in response to an indication by the sensor signal of the accumulated crop material in the feeding chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Robrecht M.K. Dumarey, Sandor Van Vooren, Pieter Vandevelde, Olivier Arnel Vanhercke
  • Publication number: 20150020699
    Abstract: A square baler having a display system for providing the operator with an indication of the weight of completed bales to enable the operator to modify a setting of the baler that affects crop density within the bale in order to achieve a uniform bale weight. In the invention, the display serves to indicate to the operator a rolling average of the weight of a predetermined number of bales last discharged from the baler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Olivier Arnel Vanhercke
  • Patent number: 8280595
    Abstract: A system, and method of use thereof, for enabling short range intercommunication and the exchange of logistical information between and among a plurality of authorized agricultural machines that are designed to be operable in conjunction with one another to effect, as a specific identified group, a given agricultural operation, including a plurality of individual agricultural machines each of which has a communications control portion operable to transmit and receive short distance communications signals and each of which also has authentication credentials associated therewith establishing such machine's entitlement to share in the logistical information and to be considered and treated as a member of the specific identified group involved in the performance of the given agricultural operation, with such individual agricultural machines, when positioned in range of the short distance communications signals of the individual agricultural machines, forming a peer-to-peer network in which such individual agricu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Christopher A. Foster, Riccardo Morselli, Olivier Arnel Vanhercke, Guoping Wang, Bart M. A. Missotten, Bert Juul Frans Paquet, John H. Posselius
  • Patent number: 8175775
    Abstract: A system and method for enabling the communication to and establishment among a plurality of generally like and like-purpose agricultural machines designed to perform generally similar agricultural operations within a given area generally like performance parameters, especially based upon the performance parameters of a particular agricultural machine that is considered or deemed to be the expert or exemplar machine, which system and method employ short range communications systems included in or associated with the operating systems of the individual agricultural machines to effect the distribution of the exemplar performance parameters to the plurality of agricultural machines, through a peer-to-peer wireless network between and among the plurality of agricultural machines for point-to-point communications, for use by the individual agricultural machines in controlling and performing the agricultural operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Christopher A. Foster, Riccardo Morselli, Olivier Arnel Vanhercke, Guoping Wang, Bart M. A. Missotten, Bert Juul Frans Paquet, John H. Posselius
  • Patent number: 8145393
    Abstract: A system, and method of use thereof, that employs short distance communications signals, thereby limiting and localizing the dissemination area for such signals, for interactively coordinating crop material transfer operations between a harvester and a grain transport, including the automated conduct of an unloading operation, including commencement of the actual unloading of the grain through continuation of such unloading to termination of such unloading, which system and method of the present invention employs operating systems in the harvester and grain transport that so operate to become electronically linked to one another to thereafter operate in unison with one another to effect and control the conduct of the crop material transfer operation between the harvester and grain transport, with each of such operating systems having associated therewith a short range communications system for the transmission and receipt at close range of electronic data signals, such operating systems, when appropriately el
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Christopher A. Foster, Riccardo Morselli, Olivier Arnel Vanhercke, Guoping Wang, Bart M. A. Missotten, Bert Juul Frans Paquet, John H. Posselius
  • Publication number: 20100070145
    Abstract: A system, and method of use thereof, that employs short distance communications signals, thereby limiting and localizing the dissemination area for such signals, for interactively coordinating crop material transfer operations between a harvester and a grain transport, including the automated conduct of an unloading operation, including commencement of the actual unloading of the grain through continuation of such unloading to termination of such unloading, which system and method of the present invention employs operating systems in the harvester and grain transport that so operate to become electronically linked to one another to thereafter operate in unison with one another to effect and control the conduct of the crop material transfer operation between the harvester and grain transport, with each of such operating systems having associated therewith a short range communications system for the transmission and receipt at close range of electronic data signals, such operating systems, when appropriately el
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventors: Christopher A. Foster, Riccardo Morselli, Olivier Arnel Vanhercke, Guoping Wang, Bart M.A. Missotten, Bert Juul Frans Paquet, John H. Posselius
  • Publication number: 20100042297
    Abstract: A system, and method of use thereof, for enabling short range intercommunication and the exchange of logistical information between and among a plurality of authorized agricultural machines that are designed to be operable in conjunction with one another to effect, as a specific identified group, a given agricultural operation, including a plurality of individual agricultural machines each of which has a communications control portion operable to transmit and receive short distance communications signals and each of which also has authentication credentials associated therewith establishing such machine's entitlement to share in the logistical information and to be considered and treated as a member of the specific identified group involved in the performance of the given agricultural operation, with such individual agricultural machines, when positioned in range of the short distance communications signals of the individual agricultural machines, forming a peer-to-peer network in which such individual agricu
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Christopher A. Foster, Riccardo Morselli, Olivier Arnel Vanhercke, Guoping Wang, Bart M.A. Missotten, Bert Juul Frans Paquet, John H. Posselius
  • Publication number: 20090312919
    Abstract: A system and method for enabling the communication to and establishment among a plurality of generally like and like-purpose agricultural machines designed to perform generally similar agricultural operations within a given area generally like performance parameters, especially based upon the performance parameters of a particular agricultural machine that is considered or deemed to be the expert or exemplar machine, which system and method employ short range communications systems included in or associated with the operating systems of the individual agricultural machines to effect the distribution of the exemplar performance parameters to the plurality of agricultural machines, through a peer-to-peer wireless network between and among the plurality of agricultural machines for point-to-point communications, for use by the individual agricultural machines in controlling and performing the agricultural operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Christopher A. Foster, Riccardo Morselli, Olivier Arnel Vanhercke, Guoping Wang, Bart M.A. Missotten, Bert Juul Frans Paquet, John H. Posselius