Patents by Inventor Thilo Steckel

Thilo Steckel 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: 11343957
    Abstract: An agricultural work system for the optimization of operating parameters, with at least one agricultural work machine having a work unit for carrying out or supporting agricultural work. The agricultural work machine has a driver assistance system for detecting, processing and outputting data relating to an agricultural work order. The driver assistance system is configured to detect a plurality of operating parameters and to allow the operator to rank the detected operating parameters or operating parameter sets with a plurality of different detected operating parameters. Individual ranked operating parameters or sets of operating parameters or all of the ranked operating parameters or sets of operating parameters are retrievably filed in a data pool, and the operating parameters are submitted based on ranking to an algorithm for generating optimized operating parameters for adjustment of the agricultural work machine and/or of the at least one work unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: CLAAS Tractor SAS
    Inventors: Christian Ehlert, Jan Carsten Wieckhorst, Thilo Steckel, Reinhold Maehler, Heinrich Warkentin, Andreas Wilken, Dennis Neitemeier
  • Publication number: 20200093053
    Abstract: An agricultural work system for the optimization of operating parameters, with at least one agricultural work machine having a work unit for carrying out or supporting agricultural work. The agricultural work machine has a driver assistance system for detecting, processing and outputting data relating to an agricultural work order. The driver assistance system is configured to detect a plurality of operating parameters and to allow the operator to rank the detected operating parameters or operating parameter sets with a plurality of different detected operating parameters. Individual ranked operating parameters or sets of operating parameters or all of the ranked operating parameters or sets of operating parameters are retrievably filed in a data pool, and the operating parameters are submitted based on ranking to an algorithm for generating optimized operating parameters for adjustment of the agricultural work machine and/or of the at least one work unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: CLAAS Tractor SAS
    Inventors: Christian EHLERT, Jan Carsten WIECKHORST, Thilo STECKEL, Reinhold MAEHLER, Heinrich WARKENTIN, Andreas WILKEN, Dennis NEITEMEIER
  • Publication number: 20150354961
    Abstract: A method for planning an agricultural post-processing operation along a post-processing route includes carrying out an agricultural pre-processing operation by a pre-processing machine along a pre-processing route, using a recording system to record the pre-processing route, determining the post-processing route to be worked by a post-processing machine on the basis of the recorded pre-processing route. The recording system records a processing setting of the pre-processing operation and the planning device determines the post-processing route on the basis of the processing setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Max Reinecke, FLORIAN KREIS, HANS-PETER GROTHAUS, CHRISTIAN RUSCH, CHRISTIAN SCHAEPERKOETTER, THORSTEN SCHILLMOELLER, THILO STECKEL, ANJA WILSKE, IVAN SMOLNIK, THOMAS KERSTING
  • Patent number: 8924097
    Abstract: Plant material for ensilage is harvested using at least one harvesting vehicle in the field, is hauled to a silo and is compressed using a compression device. The compression output of the compression device is compared to the harvesting output of the at least one harvesting vehicle, and a command to increase the harvesting output or to decrease the harvesting output of the harvesting vehicle (1) to a non-vanishing value is generated when the harvesting output deviates significantly from the compression output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Thilo Steckel, Ludger Hugenroth, Hans-Peter Grothaus, Christian Schaeperkoetter, Ivan Smolnik, Max Reinecke, Christian Rusch, Christiane Stricker
  • Patent number: 8254351
    Abstract: A communication network contains several nodes, which are equipped with transmitter/receiver units for wireless communication, including nodes referred to as mobile nodes that are installed on mobile machines. So that decentralized decisions can be made regarding the use of the mobile machines at the sites where the machines are located, a memory for storing the operating parameter profiles of several of the mobile machines is assigned to each node; every node is designed to transmit profiles stored in its assigned memory via its transmitter/receiver unit, and to update the profile of a particular mobile machine stored in its assigned memory based on a profile of this mobile machine that is received from another node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Patent number: 8213964
    Abstract: A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication between the mobile and/or stationary devices, and this accidental communication changes to a targeted communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Patent number: 8204960
    Abstract: In a system and a method of electronic data exchange for retrieving information used to carry out processes, at least one application is used to retrieve the information, and the application retrieves situation-specific information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Patent number: 7873617
    Abstract: A device for coordinating a machine fleet includes a memory for storing a large number of data records, an interface for communicating with several users who are capable of making changes to the data records, in the case of which each data record represents a given portion of the working capacity of a machine in the machine fleet, and the changes relate to the assignment of the portion of the working capacity represented by the data record to the users making the change, and an administration unit designed to allow a change to be made to a data record by a user requesting the change if the data record is not assigned to any other user and an urgency of the change indicated by the requesting user reaches a threshold specified for the particular portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbsfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel, Werner Fitzner, Norbert Diekhans, Kai Oetzel
  • Publication number: 20100145572
    Abstract: A method for supporting the automation of agricultural work or service includes collecting data, further processing the collected data using context processing rules to form a context profile, selecting process information using process assignment rules and depending on the context profile, and performing agricultural work or service depending on the process information that was selected, so that it is possible to largely automate the performance of agricultural work or service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Thilo Steckel, Andre Kluge
  • Patent number: 7555283
    Abstract: A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication between the mobile and/or stationary devices, and this accidental communication changes to a targeted communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Publication number: 20080242335
    Abstract: A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication between the mobile and/or stationary devices, and this accidental communication changes to a targeted communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Publication number: 20080098035
    Abstract: A device for coordinating a machine fleet includes a memory for storing a large number of data records, an interface for communicating with several users who are capable of making changes to the data records, in the case of which each data record represents a given portion of the working capacity of a machine in the machine fleet, and the changes relate to the assignment of the portion of the working capacity represented by the data record to the users making the change, and an administration unit designed to allow a change to be made to a data record by a user requesting the change if the data record is not assigned to any other user and an urgency of the change indicated by the requesting user reaches a threshold specified for the particular portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel, Werner Fitzner, Norbert Diekhans, Kai Oetzel
  • Publication number: 20080005177
    Abstract: In a method for data configuration and provision, and a device for implementing the method for objects, particularly agricultural working machines, an individualized data record for the particular object is assigned to the object in a higher-order data configurator. It is thereby ensured that efficient, machine-specific data provision is made possible. This has the advantage, in particular, that the information assigned to an object is now available in a process-independent manner, is not restricted to a specific application, and can be used to provide service concepts in a customer-oriented manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Thilo Steckel, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Hans-Peter Grothaus
  • Publication number: 20070298744
    Abstract: A communication network contains several nodes, which are equipped with transmitter/receiver units for wireless communication, including nodes referred to as mobile nodes that are installed on mobile machines. So that decentralized decisions can be made regarding the use of the mobile machines at the sites where the machines are located, a memory for storing the operating parameter profiles of several of the mobile machines is assigned to each node; every node is designed to transmit profiles stored in its assigned memory via its transmitter/receiver unit, and to update the profile of a particular mobile machine stored in its assigned memory based on a profile of this mobile machine that is received from another node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Publication number: 20070073700
    Abstract: In a system and a method of electronic data exchange for retrieving information used to carry out processes, at least one application is used to retrieve the information, and the application retrieves situation-specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Publication number: 20060014489
    Abstract: A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication between the mobile and/or stationary devices, and this accidental communication changes to a targeted communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Patent number: 6085135
    Abstract: A method for program-controlled display of an electronic map image on a screen (S) of an agriculture machine (AV), which includes a position finding system (GPS) and a screen operating computer (SOC) which has access to map information (MI) directly or via a radio data transmission channel (RC, RRC). The map information (MI) is accessed as a function of the machine location (LI) determined at any given time and is processed for a map image display. The map information (MI) contains driving and/or cultivation data of the land to be driven over or cultivated and these data are processed automatically selectively into the respective location-related map image display, in each case as a function of respective operating parameters (DT, VS, LPS, PS, EI) of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: CLAAS KGaA
    Inventor: Thilo Steckel
  • Patent number: 5913801
    Abstract: In a device and a method, a position-accurate detection of product mass received by a baler is possible, by an electronic control and regulating device in association with determination of a load of a working element of the baler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Bottinger, Thilo Steckel, Helmut Homburg
  • Patent number: 5889671
    Abstract: An on-board computer system for machines has comprising a computer unit, a plurality of operation units for the machines such that the machines are adjustable, controllable and regulatable through the computer unit by adjusting values stored or inputted in the computer unit, inputting means for completing and changing data stored in said computer unit, an exchangeable operator plate having indicating and inputting means, and a mobile case accommodating the computer unit and formed so that the mobile sleeve is releasably connectable with the working machine and mountable on different working machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Ludger Autermann, Klaus Kollmeier, Thilo Steckel, Klaudia Klasbrummel, Kai Oetzel, Hans-Herrmann Wippersteg, Stefan Bottinger, Ernst Josef Schligten
  • Patent number: 5712782
    Abstract: In the process for optimizing operation of a group of agricultural machines a controlling processor, which exchanges data telemetrically with on-board processors of agricultural machines and devices, optimizes the internally optimized control cycles of the individual on-board processors and transmits controlling data to the on-board processors, which it has determined from collective scanning of operating data transmitted to it from the entire group of agricultural machines. Overloading of available data transmission capacity and excessively large memory capacity requirements are avoided by a special categorizing of data and an advantageous selection of memory locations for the resulting data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Horst Weigelt, H. H. Wippersteg, Stefan Boettinger, Thilo Steckel