Patents by Inventor Shaun A. O'Donnell
Shaun A. O'Donnell 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).
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Publication number: 20250017146Abstract: An unload spout for an agricultural vehicle includes a hollow body having an inlet end for receiving crop material, an outlet end through which the crop material is distributed, and a side wall extending between the inlet end and the outlet end. A plurality of steps are formed on an interior facing side of the side wall for enhancing the structural integrity of the unload spout.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2023Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Shaun O'Donnell, Denver Yoder, James Seedorf, Ashutosh Tamrakar
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Publication number: 20240365711Abstract: A chain guide for a wall of a grain elevator of an agricultural vehicle. The chain guide includes an elongated body. A rib extends from a surface of the elongated body, the rib being configured to engage with a chain of the grain elevator. A mating surface is either formed on or in the body, and the mating surface is configured to be connected to the wall of the grain elevator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2023Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicants: CNH Industrial America LLC, CNH Industrial Belgium N.V.Inventors: Shaun O'Donnell, Frank Duquesne, Denver Yoder, Clayton Banks, JR., Bjorn Depoortere, Jason Musheno
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Publication number: 20240244997Abstract: A system for detecting a broken or missing grain paddle of an elevator of a combine harvester includes a sensor positioned to either directly or indirectly detect a presence of grain paddles of the elevator, and output signals based thereon. The system also includes a controller that is configured to receive the signals output from the sensor and determine the occurrence of the broken or missing grain paddle as a function of the signals transmitted by the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Karl Linde, Shaun O'Donnell, Clayton Banks, JR.
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Patent number: 11819702Abstract: Disclosed herein are perovskite materials and methods of making an use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Paul A. Maggard, Jr., Shaun O'Donnell, Jacob L. Jones
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Patent number: 11382270Abstract: A harvester system that includes a work vehicle. A harvester attachment removably couples to the work vehicle. The harvester attachment includes a tool bar. A quick connector couples to the tool bar. The quick connector removably couples and uncouples the harvester attachment to the work vehicle. A support system removably couples to the work vehicle. The support system supports operation of the harvester attachment.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Nicholas Stephen Shane, Chad Aerts, Ronald DeCamp, Paula Minuto Meagher, Robert D. Crandall, Shaun A. O'Donnell, Jeffrey Norton, Steven E. Gaedy, Keith J. Weiss
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Patent number: 11234373Abstract: An agricultural vehicle crop feeder system having housings defining a crop passage, a conveyor assembly, a rotor, a guide plate, and one or more guide vanes extending from the guide plate. The conveyor assembly propels crop material along a feeder flow direction to the rotor. The rotor has inlet vanes that receive the crop material in a receiving region located below the rotor's axis. The leading edges of the rotor inlet vanes travel towards the receiving region on a first transverse side of the rotor axis and away from the receiving region on a second transverse side of the rotor axis. The guide plate is adjacent the receiving region. The guide vane extends into the crop passage on the first side of the rotor axis, and angled relative to the flow direction with its trailing edge closer to the first rotor axis, in the transverse direction, than the leading edge.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Shaun A. O'Donnell, Joshua A. Lesher, Frank R. G. Duquesne, Clinton T. Baltz
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Publication number: 20210275821Abstract: Disclosed herein are perovskite materials and methods of making an use thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Paul A. Maggard, JR., Shaun O'Donnell, Jacob L. Jones
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Publication number: 20210045293Abstract: An agricultural vehicle crop feeder system having housings defining a crop passage, a conveyor assembly, a rotor, a guide plate, and one or more guide vanes extending from the guide plate. The conveyor assembly propels crop material along a feeder flow direction to the rotor. The rotor has inlet vanes that receive the crop material in a receiving region located below the rotor's axis. The leading edges of the rotor inlet vanes travel towards the receiving region on a first transverse side of the rotor axis and away from the receiving region on a second transverse side of the rotor axis. The guide plate is adjacent the receiving region. The guide vane extends into the crop passage on the first side of the rotor axis, and angled relative to the flow direction with its trailing edge closer to the first rotor axis, in the transverse direction, than the leading edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2019Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Shaun A. O'Donnell, Joshua A. Lesher, Frank R. G. Duquesne, Clinton T. Baltz
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Publication number: 20210037692Abstract: A harvester system that includes a work vehicle. A harvester attachment removably couples to the work vehicle. The harvester attachment includes a tool bar. A quick connector couples to the tool bar. The quick connector removably couples and uncouples the harvester attachment to the work vehicle. A support system removably couples to the work vehicle. The support system supports operation of the harvester attachment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Nicholas Stephen Shane, Chad Aerts, Ronald DeCamp, Paula Minuto Meagher, Robert D. Crandall, Shaun A. O'Donnell, Jeffrey Norton, Steven E. Gaedy, Keith J. Weiss
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Patent number: 10225991Abstract: An agricultural baler includes a needle disposed within a baling chamber. The needle transfers a strap to a gripping device. A needle gripper is disposed on a distal end of the needle and configured to selectively secure the strap to the needle. The needle gripper includes a thumb gripper rotatably mounted to a wall of the needle gripper. The thumb gripper rotates between a first position configured to secure the strap against a surface of the needle and a second position configured to release the strap from the needle. The needle gripper includes a release arm coupled to the thumb gripper and configured to rotate the thumb gripper from the first position to the second position in response to rotation of the release arm about a release arm axis from a neutral position to a first release position.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Joshua L. Lounder, Dominick B. Rizzon, Shaun A. O'Donnell
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Patent number: 10085384Abstract: An agricultural baler includes a baling chamber configured to receive a compressible material and a track positioned about at least a portion of the baling chamber. The track is configured to receive a strap and to guide the strap around the portion of the baling chamber. The agricultural baler also includes a sealing assembly positioned adjacent to a first side of the baling chamber and configured to receive the strap and to seal the strap into a loop around the compressible material to form a strapped bale. The sealing assembly is configured to move relative to the baling chamber as the sealing assembly seals the strap into the loop around the compressible material as the compressible material moves toward an outlet at a second end of the baling chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Joshua L. Lounder, Dominick B. Rizzon, Shaun A. O'Donnell
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Patent number: 10051793Abstract: A strapping system for an agricultural implement includes a strap feeding assembly positioned on a first side of a baling chamber and a needle positioned on a second side of the baling chamber, opposite the first side. The system also includes a first slot disposed within a first material-facing surface of a rear wall of the baling chamber. The strap feeding assembly is configured to propel a strap through at least a portion of the first slot to the second side of the baling chamber, and the needle is configured to grip a portion of the strap and to move the portion of the strap from the second side of the baling chamber to the first side of the baling chamber to surround a material within the baling chamber with the strap.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Shaun A. O'Donnell, Dominick Brian Rizzon, Josh Lounder
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Patent number: 9936645Abstract: An agricultural baler having a baling chamber is provided. The baling chamber includes a first wall and a second wall opposing the first wall. The first wall and the second wall extend longitudinally between a first end and a second end of the baling chamber, and the second wall forms a bottom surface of the baling chamber. The baler also includes a hinge disposed proximate to the first end of the baling chamber. The hinge is coupled to the second wall, and the second wall is configured to rotate about the hinge from a first position in which the second wall supports a bale within the baling chamber to a second position that enables the bale to move out of the baling chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Donald P. Keller, Dominick Rizzon, Josh Lounder, Shaun A. O'Donnell
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Patent number: 9706711Abstract: A method of harvesting an agricultural product includes guiding the agricultural product through a plurality of inlets in a first direction with a plurality of airflows, separating the agricultural product from the first plurality of airflows, directing the agricultural product to a cross-conveyor, conveying the agricultural product through the cross-conveyor from the plurality of inlets to an outlet in a second direction, and guiding the agricultural product through the outlet in a third direction with a second airflow. The first direction is substantially parallel to a travel direction, the second direction is crosswise to the first direction, and the third direction is substantially parallel to the travel direction. The agricultural product is conveyed through the cross-conveyor substantially without the first plurality of airflows, and the second airflow includes the first plurality of airflows.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Michael J. Minnich, Shaun A. O'Donnell
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Publication number: 20160021825Abstract: An agricultural baler having a baling chamber is provided. The baling chamber includes a first wall and a second wall opposing the first wall. The first wall and the second wall extend longitudinally between a first end and a second end of the baling chamber, and the second wall forms a bottom surface of the baling chamber. The baler also includes a hinge disposed proximate to the first end of the baling chamber. The hinge is coupled to the second wall, and the second wall is configured to rotate about the hinge from a first position in which the second wall supports a bale within the baling chamber to a second position that enables the bale to move out of the baling chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Donald P. Keller, Dominick Rizzon, Josh Lounder, Shaun A. O'Donnell
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Publication number: 20160021828Abstract: A strapping system for an agricultural implement includes a strap feeding assembly positioned on a first side of a baling chamber and a needle positioned on a second side of the baling chamber, opposite the first side. The system also includes a first slot disposed within a first material-facing surface of a rear wall of the baling chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Shaun A. O'Donnell, Dominick Brian Rizzon, Josh Lounder
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Publication number: 20150272010Abstract: An agricultural baler includes a baling chamber configured to receive a compressible material and a track positioned about at least a portion of the baling chamber. The track is configured to receive a strap and to guide the strap around the portion of the baling chamber. The agricultural baler also includes a sealing assembly positioned adjacent to a first side of the baling chamber and configured to receive the strap and to seal the strap into a loop around the compressible material to form a strapped bale. The sealing assembly is configured to move relative to the baling chamber as the sealing assembly seals the strap into the loop around the compressible material as the compressible material moves toward an outlet at a second end of the baling chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Joshua L. Lounder, Dominick B. Rizzon, Shaun A. O'Donnell
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Publication number: 20150272008Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward an agricultural baler including a needle disposed within a baling chamber. The needle transfers a strap to a gripping device. The agricultural baler includes a needle gripper disposed on a distal end of the needle and configured to selectively secure the strap to the needle. The needle gripper includes a thumb gripper rotatably mounted to a wall of the needle gripper. The thumb gripper rotates between a first position configured to secure the strap against a surface of the needle and a second position configured to release the strap from the needle. The needle gripper includes a release arm coupled to the thumb gripper and configured to rotate the thumb gripper from the first position to the second position in response to rotation of the release arm about a release arm axis from a neutral position to a first release position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Joshua L. Lounder, Dominick B. Rizzon, Shaun A. O'Donnell
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Publication number: 20150135672Abstract: In another embodiment, a method of harvesting an agricultural product includes guiding the agricultural product through a plurality of inlets in a first direction with a plurality of airflows, separating the agricultural product from the first plurality of airflows, directing the agricultural product to a cross-conveyor, conveying the agricultural product through the cross-conveyor from the plurality of inlets to an outlet in a second direction, and guiding the agricultural product through the outlet in a third direction with a second airflow. The first direction is substantially parallel to a travel direction, the second direction is crosswise to the first direction, and the third direction is substantially parallel to the travel direction. The agricultural product is conveyed through the cross-conveyor substantially without the first plurality of airflows, and the second airflow includes the first plurality of airflows.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2013Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: CNH America LLCInventors: Michael J. Minnich, Shaun A. O'Donnell
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Publication number: 20140297259Abstract: A system and method for providing simultaneous multiple language tour commentary in a group tour environment. The system and method wirelessly triggers the simultaneous playing of multiple language tour commentaries in a group tour environment using a Master Controller Device to trigger the playing of location specific audio commentaries stored on Personal Wireless Receiver Devices worn by participants of a group tour who are moving through a geographic area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Jonathan KRUSE, Shaun O'DONNELL