Patents by Inventor Ralf Koenig

Ralf Koenig 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: 11833693
    Abstract: A method for the protection of a work area of a mobile logistics robot in changing work environments, the method including controlling the mobile logistics robot using a control system, scanning the current work environment using a sensor system, monitoring the current work environment using a safety system, in which the control system autonomously defines a planned safe work area in a new work environment, and the safety system autonomously verifies and monitors the defined work area as a clear protection zone, and in the event of a breach of the clear protection zone by the entry of an object into the clear protection zone, the mobile logistics robot is automatically placed in a safe status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: STILL GmbH
    Inventors: Dennis Schuthe, Abel Bengt, Ralf Koenig
  • Publication number: 20210370512
    Abstract: A method for the protection of a work area of a mobile logistics robot in changing work environments, the method including controlling the mobile logistics robot using a control system, scanning the current work environment using a sensor system, monitoring the current work environment using a safety system, in which the control system autonomously defines a planned safe work area in a new work environment, and the safety system autonomously verifies and monitors the defined work area as a clear protection zone, and in the event of a breach of the clear protection zone by the entry of an object into the clear protection zone, the mobile logistics robot is automatically placed in a safe status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Dennis Schuthe, Abel Bengt, Ralf Koenig
  • Patent number: 6105353
    Abstract: A baler for agricultural products has a chassis, a pickup, a transporting passage, a pressing chamber, a binding device, a discharging device, a working element performing working operations in the baler, a main drive shaft connected with the working element for driving the working means, at least one planetary summing transmission connected with an operative for driving the main drive shaft, a first drive unit including a cardan shaft and transmitting rotation with a first rotary speed to the planetary summing transmission, and a second drive unit transmitting a rotation to the planetary summing transmission with a second regulatable rotary speed, so that the planetary summing transmission summarizes the rotary speeds of the first and second drive units and produces a rotation with an output speed for driving the main drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Jan-Hendrik Mohr, Ralf Koenig