Patents by Inventor Rainer Hory

Rainer Hory 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).

  • Agricultural harvester
    Patent number: 9408347
    Abstract: An agricultural harvester is provided with a pivotable discharge elbow that conveys picked-up and processed crop into a transport container of a transport vehicle. An electro-optical device is correlated with the discharge elbow. An electronic evaluation and control processing unit is connected to the electro-optical device and processes signals received from the electro-optical device to effect an automatic targeted control of the crop stream into the transport container based on the processed signals. The electro-optical device is a 3D laser scanner provided with a 2D laser scanner and a pivot unit that pivots the 2D laser scanner about an approximately horizontal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Menke, Bernd Schniederbruns, Lars Ambrosy, Rainer Hory
  • Agricultural Harvester
    Publication number: 20150149048
    Abstract: An agricultural harvester is provided with a pivotable discharge elbow that conveys picked-up and processed crop into a transport container of a transport vehicle. An electro-optical device is correlated with the discharge elbow. An electronic evaluation and control processing unit is connected to the electro-optical device and processes signals received from the electro-optical device to effect an automatic targeted control of the crop stream into the transport container based on the processed signals. The electro-optical device is a 3D laser scanner provided with a 2D laser scanner and a pivot unit that pivots the 2D laser scanner about an approximately horizontal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Stefan Menke, Bernd Schniederbruns, Lars Ambrosy, Rainer Hory