Patents by Inventor Stephan Recknagel

Stephan Recknagel 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: 9648807
    Abstract: An agricultural harvesting machine has a control arrangement including an optical sensor device for recording image series of a continuous main crop stream, an evaluation device for ascertaining a portion of damaged grain, a portion of non-grain in the main crop stream or both, on the basis of an image analysis of the recorded image series and a visualization device for displaying the portion of damaged grain and/or the portion of non-grain. The control arrangement cyclically records image series of the continuous main crop stream and, within a predetermined processing time after an image series has been recorded, displays a current portion of damaged grain, a current portion of non-grain or both, based on the image series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Mathias Escher, Georg Eggenhaus, Thilo Krause, Boris Kettelhoit, Allan Kildeby, Jan Van De Sluis, Willi Behnke, Thomas Roewekamp, Stephan Recknagel
  • Publication number: 20150009328
    Abstract: An agricultural harvesting machine has a control arrangement including an optical sensor device for recording image series of a continuous main crop stream, an evaluation device for ascertaining a portion of damaged grain, a portion of non-grain in the main crop stream or both, on the basis of an image analysis of the recorded image series and a visualization device for displaying the portion of damaged grain and/or the portion of non-grain. The control arrangement cyclically records image series of the continuous main crop stream and, within a predetermined processing time after an image series has been recorded, displays a current portion of damaged grain, a current portion of non-grain or both, based on the image series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Mathias Escher, Georg Eggenhaus, Thilo Krause, Boris Kettelhoit, Allan Kildeby, Jan Van De Sluis, Willi Behnke, Thomas Roewekamp, Stephan Recknagel
  • Patent number: 6594852
    Abstract: A cleaning device for cleaning a grate bar comprising a pair of tongs having two limbs held in an opened position, and being squeezable into a working position by hand-applied force. A holding element at a free end of each limb. The holding elements are disposed such that: (1) when the tongs are in the opened position, there is no overlap between the holding elements, which are separated by a distance that is larger than the diameter of a grate bar, and the free ends are separated by a distance which is smaller than the distance between adjacent grate bars; and (2) when the tongs are in the working position, the holding elements overlap. The cleaning device includes, at the free ends of the limbs, a cleaning element in the form of at least one flexible cleaning cable which can be at least partially wrapped around the grate bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Inventors: Jürgen Schedlinski, Stephan Recknagel