Patents by Inventor Rene Walter

Rene Walter 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: 9144198
    Abstract: A harvesting machine includes a frame carrying at least one harvesting mechanism and a lightening device of the harvesting mechanism. The lightening device includes second hydraulic jacks articulated on the frame and on the harvesting mechanism and connected by hydraulic circuits to first hydraulic jacks so as to be able to be actuated by the first hydraulic jacks and to hydropneumatic accumulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: KUHN S.A.
    Inventors: Rene Walter, Martin Walch, Bernard Wattron
  • Publication number: 20130205738
    Abstract: A harvesting machine includes a frame carrying at least one harvesting mechanism and a lightening device of the harvesting mechanism. The lightening device includes second hydraulic jacks articulated on the frame and on the harvesting mechanism and connected by hydraulic circuits to first hydraulic jacks so as to be able to be actuated by the first hydraulic jacks and to hydropneumatic accumulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: KUHN S.A.
    Inventors: Rene Walter, Martin Walch, Bernard Wattron
  • Patent number: 7712295
    Abstract: An agricultural machine comprising: a motor vehicle that can move in two opposite directions, a direction of travel for work, and a transport direction, a driver's cabin that can move along the motor vehicle, at least one central support connected to the lifting device of the motor vehicle and supporting front working units intended to cut standing plant products, the working units that protrude laterally from the motor vehicle being able to be moved by means of the central support into a transport position in which they are positioned longitudinally at least partly above the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Kuhn S.A.
    Inventors: Rene Walter, Cedric Halter, Philippe Potier
  • Patent number: 7707813
    Abstract: A method of producing a disk mower cutter bar housing and the housing produced. The method forms an upper plate and a lower plate of a housing, assembles the formed upper plate and the formed lower plate by welding to form a casing, and cuts out holes on the casing, by a laser beam. The holes are configured to receive bearings of disks and intermediate drive gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Kuhn S . A .
    Inventors: Rene Walter, Jacky Kirch
  • Publication number: 20080168758
    Abstract: A method of producing a disk mower cutter bar housing and the housing produced. The method forms an upper plate and a lower plate of a housing, assembles the formed upper plate and the formed lower plate by welding to form a casing, and cuts out holes on the casing, by a laser beam. The holes are configured to receive bearings of disks and intermediate drive gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventors: Rene Walter, Jacky Kirch
  • Patent number: 7181897
    Abstract: A cutting device including a gearbox of an upper part, a lower part, and a front piece, the front piece having a thickness greater than the thickness of the upper part. At least one guide bearing is connected to the gearbox by assembly elements. At least one cutting member is connected to the gearbox by the guide bearing, the cutting member being driven in rotation during work about an upwardly directed axis. And, at least one assembly element is anchored in the front piece of increased thickness, attachment of the guide bearing being thus improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Kuhn S. A.
    Inventors: Rene Walter, Horst Neuerburg, Michel Wolff, Jacky Kirch
  • Publication number: 20060254238
    Abstract: An agricultural machine comprising: a motor vehicle that can move in two opposite directions, a direction of travel for work, and a transport direction, a driver's cabin that can move along the motor vehicle, at least one central support connected to the lifting device of the motor vehicle and supporting front working units intended to cut standing plant products, the working units that protrude laterally from the motor vehicle being able to be moved by means of the central support into a transport position in which they are positioned longitudinally at least partly above the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Applicant: KUHN S.A.
    Inventors: Rene Walter, Cedric Halter, Philippe Potier
  • Publication number: 20050229574
    Abstract: A cutting device including a gearbox of an upper part, a lower part, and a front piece, the front piece having a thickness greater than the thickness of the upper part. At least one guide bearing is connected to the gearbox by assembly elements. At least one cutting member is connected to the gearbox by the guide bearing, the cutting member being driven in rotation during work about an upwardly directed axis. And, at least one assembly element is anchored in the front piece of increased thickness, attachment of the guide bearing being thus improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Applicant: KUHN S.A.
    Inventors: Rene Walter, Horst Neuerburg, MIchel Wolff, Jacky Kirch
  • Patent number: 5852921
    Abstract: A mower includes a linking structure designed to link the mower to a motor vehicle; a cutting mechanism with driven cutting elements that include cutting tools; and a windrowing device designed to move laterally, toward a median plane of the cutting mechanism, the product that has been cut by the cutting elements before it is dropped to the ground. The windrowing device has at least one guiding element for the cut product, located in the vicinity of one of the lateral ends of the cutting mechanism, and considering the direction of work, behind the front of the cut of the cutting mechanism. The guiding element has at least two rotors arranged crosswise to the direction of work and to the rotation axis directed upward during work. The rotors are hung to a carrying structure linked to the cutting mechanism and/or to the linking structure, and the rotors are driven in rotation by way of a driving mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Kuhn S.A.
    Inventors: Horst Neuerburg, Rene Walter, Michel Wolff
  • Patent number: 5566537
    Abstract: A mower includes a cutting mechanism, an attachment structure, a carrying beam connected to the cutting mechanism by way of a first articulation and to the attachment structure by way of a second articulation and a third articulation, and a safety device including an energy accumulator. The safety device includes a pivoting member connected to the attachment structure by way of a fourth articulation and a connecting rod installed between the pivoting member and the cutting mechanism or the carrying beam. The energy accumulator is connected to the pivoting member by way of a connection which is capable, from a certain angle of pivoting of the cutting mechanism toward the rear, about the axis of the third articulation, of reducing the lever arm with which the energy accumulator acts on the pivoting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Kuhn S.A.
    Inventors: Fernand Kieffer, Rene Walter, Horst Neuerburg