Patents by Inventor Thomas Hinz
Thomas Hinz 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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Patent number: 11109529Abstract: A height control system for a front harvesting attachment, comprising a frame, at least one crop pick-up device, and a ground-conforming cutterbar which is situated on a plurality of supporting arms that can pivot about a horizontal axis and are articulated on the frame. The supporting arms can be pivoted, originating from a desired position to be set before the start of a harvesting operation, between an upper end position, which delimits a deflection of the supporting arms in the direction of the crop pick-up device, and a lower end position, wherein the upper end position has a first clearance and the lower end position has a second clearance from the desired position, wherein the desired position can be adapted, during the harvesting operation, to changing harvesting conditions and/or operating conditions depending on a deflection of the cutterbar, in order to minimize the first clearance and maximize the second clearance.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Christian Fuechtling, Andreas Wielenberg, Udo Beschorn, Thomas Hinz
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Patent number: 10575467Abstract: A header has a middle section disposed on a main frame and at least two side sections disposed adjacent to the middle section, a cutterbar extending substantially across the width of the header, and at least one conveyor device which conveys crop cut by the cutterbar laterally in the direction of the middle section. The conveyor device has a central conveyor including an endlessly circulating, endless conveyor belt which is guided around two rollers disposed on two support elements extending in parallel to the conveyance direction and are each mounted on bearing points provided on the support elements. The support elements each have a guide recess and in which one of the rollers is displaceable so that the conveyor belt can be transferred from an operating position, in which the conveyor belt is tensioned, into a maintenance position, in which the conveyor belt sags, in sections, in the vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Christian Fuechtling, Thomas Hinz, Mathieu Koehler
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Publication number: 20190297775Abstract: A height control system for a front harvesting attachment, comprising a frame, at least one crop pick-up device, and a ground-conforming cutterbar which is situated on a plurality of supporting arms that can pivot about a horizontal axis and are articulated on the frame. The supporting arms can be pivoted, originating from a desired position to be set before the start of a harvesting operation, between an upper end position, which delimits a deflection of the supporting arms in the direction of the crop pick-up device, and a lower end position, wherein the upper end position has a first clearance and the lower end position has a second clearance from the desired position, wherein the desired position can be adapted, during the harvesting operation, to changing harvesting conditions and/or operating conditions depending on a deflection of the cutterbar, in order to minimize the first clearance and maximize the second clearance.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Christian Fuechtling, Andreas Wielenberg, Udo Beschorn, Thomas Hinz
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Patent number: 10412887Abstract: A combine harvester includes a belt cutting unit comprising a center belt for conveying harvest to an intake roller and/or to an intake channel of a grain conveyor, and a transverse conveyor belt disposed each on the left-hand side and the right-hand side of the center belt, to convey harvest to the center belt. The center belt, left-hand and right-hand transverse conveyor belts are behind a cutter bar, seen in the direction of travel, with each being operated with an individual belt speed. The combine harvester and/or belt cutting unit has a control unit configured to automatically control the belt speeds of the left-hand and right-hand transverse conveyor belts as a function of a forward travel speed, and the belt speeds of the center belt as a function of the forward travel speed or as a function of the belt speeds of the left-hand and right-hand transverse conveyor belts.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Christian Füchtling, Mathieu Köhler, Thomas Hinz, Burkhard Sagemüller, Udo Beschorn, Andreas Wielenberg, Balazs Tillman, Berthold Hamphoff
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Publication number: 20180332772Abstract: A header has a middle section disposed on a main frame and at least two side sections disposed adjacent to the middle section, a cutterbar extending substantially across the width of the header, and at least one conveyor device which conveys crop cut by the cutterbar laterally in the direction of the middle section. The conveyor device has a central conveyor including an endlessly circulating, endless conveyor belt which is guided around two rollers disposed on two support elements extending in parallel to the conveyance direction and are each mounted on bearing points provided on the support elements. The support elements each have a guide recess and in which one of the rollers is displaceable so that the conveyor belt can be transferred from an operating position, in which the conveyor belt is tensioned, into a maintenance position, in which the conveyor belt sags, in sections, in the vertical direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: CHRISTIAN FUECHTLING, THOMAS HINZ, MATHIEU KOEHLER
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Publication number: 20180054964Abstract: A combine harvester includes a belt cutting unit comprising a center belt for conveying harvest to an intake roller and/or to an intake channel of a grain conveyor, and a transverse conveyor belt disposed each on the left-hand side and the right-hand side of the center belt, to convey harvest to the center belt. The center belt, left-hand and right-hand transverse conveyor belts are behind a cutter bar, seen in the direction of travel, with each being operated with an individual belt speed. The combine harvester and/or belt cutting unit has a control unit configured to automatically control the belt speeds of the left-hand and right-hand transverse conveyor belts as a function of a forward travel speed, and the belt speeds of the center belt as a function of the forward travel speed or as a function of the belt speeds of the left-hand and right-hand transverse conveyor belts.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbHInventors: Christian Füchtling, Mathieu Köhler, Thomas Hinz, Burkhard Sagemüller, Udo Beschorn, Andreas Wielenberg, Balazs Tillman, Berthold Hamphoff
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Publication number: 20180014342Abstract: A fuel dispenser comprises fuel flow piping defining a flow path from a source of fuel toward a fueling nozzle. A plurality of fuel handling components are disposed along the fuel flow piping. Control electronics are in operative communication with the fluid handling components. The fuel dispenser further includes network circuitry operative to create an ad hoc wireless network with an adjacent vehicle and, after creation of such network, exchange security indicia with the vehicle that identifies the fuel dispenser as a trusted road side unit. Thereafter, the fuel dispenser facilitates a communication link with a remote server for bulk data transfer to the vehicle of information unrelated to a fueling transaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Thomas Hinz, Edward Asbell Payne, Rodger K. Williams
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Publication number: 20100141668Abstract: The invention relates to a address calculation unit (15) for region based image processing tasks, where a processing unit (15) processes the data and exchanges the processed data between a global memory (11) and a local memory (12), wherein the address calculation of region-based algorithms is performed by the address calculation unit in parallel to the date processing of the and the actual processing of data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2007Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: NXP, B.V.Inventors: Winfried Gehrke, Thomas Hinz