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).

  • Publication number: 20250376362
    Abstract: A data processing device or control unit is used for the operation of an industrial truck for the transport of a plurality of objects in a warehouse. The data processing device includes an interface which is configured for the reception of a plurality of sensor data from the industrial truck during the movement of the industrial truck in the warehouse. The plurality of sensor data includes a plurality of thermal imaging data of the environment of the industrial truck. The data processing device further includes a processor device which is configured to create and/or to update a temperature map of the warehouse on the basis of the plurality of thermal imaging data. The temperature map indicates respective temperature values for a plurality of points of the warehouse. The data processing device or control unit can be part of the industrial truck or a free-standing server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2025
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Inventors: Ralf Koenig, Sven Dierfeld, Johannes Hinckeldeyn, Dennis Schüthe, Lukas Hindemith, Ansgar Bergmann, Ansgar Howey
  • 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