Patents by Inventor Tobias Gotterbarm

Tobias Gotterbarm 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: 10640931
    Abstract: A road finisher includes an undercarriage, a chassis, a hopper, a paving screed, and a lifting device for lifting the chassis relative to the undercarriage at least in a rear region of the road finisher. A locking element can be moved by a locking element actuator between a locked state, in which the locking element mechanically locks the chassis at a predefined transport height relative to the undercarriage, and a release state, in which the mechanical locking of the chassis is released at the transport height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schmidt, Tobias Gotterbarm, Martin Buschmann, Martin Seibel
  • Patent number: 10472779
    Abstract: A road finisher including an undercarriage, a chassis, a hopper, a paving screed, and a lifting device for lifting the chassis relative to the undercarriage at least in a rear region of the road finisher. The lifting device comprises a rocker mounted rotatably around an undercarriage rotational axis at an undercarriage-side bearing surface and rotatably around a chassis rotational axis at a chassis-side bearing surface. The lifting device further comprises a length-variable adjustment member connecting a chassis-side link point to a rocker-side link point and configured to change a distance between the chassis-side link point and the rocker-side link point by changing its length to selectively lift or lower the chassis relative to the undercarriage. A distance between the chassis rotation axis and the undercarriage rotation axis is greater than a distance between the chassis rotation axis and the chassis-side bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schmidt, Martin Seibel, Martin Buschmann, Tobias Gotterbarm
  • Publication number: 20190177928
    Abstract: A road finisher including an undercarriage, a chassis, a hopper, a paving screed, and a lifting device for lifting the chassis relative to the undercarriage at least in a rear region of the road finisher. The lifting device comprises a rocker mounted rotatably around an undercarriage rotational axis at an undercarriage-side bearing surface and rotatably around a chassis rotational axis at a chassis-side bearing surface. The lifting device further comprises a length-variable adjustment member connecting a chassis-side link point to a rocker-side link point and configured to change a distance between the chassis-side link point and the rocker-side link point by changing its length to selectively lift or lower the chassis relative to the undercarriage. A distance between the chassis rotation axis and the undercarriage rotation axis is greater than a distance between the chassis rotation axis and the chassis-side bearing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Thomas SCHMIDT, Martin SEIBEL, Martin BUSCHMANN, Tobias GOTTERBARM
  • Publication number: 20190177929
    Abstract: A road finisher includes an undercarriage, a chassis, a hopper, a paving screed, and a lifting device for lifting the chassis relative to the undercarriage at least in a rear region of the road finisher. A locking element can be moved by a locking element actuator between a locked state, in which the locking element mechanically locks the chassis at a predefined transport height relative to the undercarriage, and a release state, in which the mechanical locking of the chassis is released at the transport height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Thomas SCHMIDT, Tobias GOTTERBARM, Martin BUSCHMANN, Martin SEIBEL
  • Patent number: 10029525
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a road finishing machine with a chassis and a pushing device. The pushing device comprises at least one docking assembly and at least one absorber unit. The absorber unit is fixed to the chassis of the road finishing machine and comprises at least one piston-cylinder unit which comprises a cylinder and a working piston movable therein which subdivides the piston-cylinder unit into at least one first and one second chambers and is coupled to the docking assembly. The docking assembly may be positioned, by the movably mounted working piston, relative to the chassis between an extended position and at least one retracted position. In the piston-cylinder unit, at least one flow channel is provided between the first and the second chambers for letting a fluid enclosed in the piston-cylinder unit pass through, the fluid being prestressed in the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Tobias Gotterbarm, Thomas Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9656525
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a road finishing machine with a chassis and a pushing device. The pushing device comprises at least one docking assembly and at least one absorber unit. The absorber unit is fixed to the chassis of the road finishing machine and comprises at least one piston-cylinder unit which comprises a cylinder and a working piston movable therein which subdivides the piston-cylinder unit into at least one first and one second chambers and is coupled to the docking assembly. The docking assembly may be positioned, by the movably mounted working piston, relative to the chassis between an extended position and at least one retracted position. In the piston-cylinder unit, at least one flow channel is provided between the first and the second chambers for letting a fluid enclosed in the piston-cylinder unit pass through, the fluid being prestressed in the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Tobias Gotterbarm, Thomas Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20170081810
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a road finishing machine with a chassis and a pushing device. The pushing device comprises at least one docking assembly and at least one absorber unit. The absorber unit is fixed to the chassis of the road finishing machine and comprises at least one piston-cylinder unit which comprises a cylinder and a working piston movable therein which subdivides the piston-cylinder unit into at least one first and one second chambers and is coupled to the docking assembly. The docking assembly may be positioned, by the movably mounted working piston, relative to the chassis between an extended position and at least one retracted position. In the piston-cylinder unit, at least one flow channel is provided between the first and the second chambers for letting a fluid enclosed in the piston-cylinder unit pass through, the fluid being prestressed in the extended position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Tobias GOTTERBARM, Thomas SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 9540778
    Abstract: A road finishing machine with a thermographic device releasably fixed to a portion of the machine for recording a georeferenced thermographic data record of at least one region of a pavement layer. The thermographic device includes a housing in which a detection unit for detecting a thermographic data record and a further detection unit for detecting a space-related data record for the thermographic data record are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Arnold Rutz, Henning Delius, Martin Buschmann, Tobias Gotterbarm, Christian Pawlik
  • Publication number: 20160281304
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a road finishing machine with a thermographic device releasably fixed to a portion of the machine for recording a georeferenced thermographic data record of at least one region of a pavement layer. The thermographic device includes a housing in which a detection unit for detecting a thermographic data record and a further detection unit for detecting a space-related data record for the thermographic data record are disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Arnold RUTZ, Henning DELIUS, Martin BUSCHMANN, Tobias GOTTERBARM, Christian PAWLIK
  • Patent number: 9447549
    Abstract: A road finishing machine, comprising a screed for laying a paving layer on a subsoil and at least one temperature sensor. According to the disclosure, the temperature sensor is fixed to the road finishing machine and directed to the subsoil such that it may detect a temperature at least of a region of the subsoil which is located in front of the screed, seen in the direction of travel. In accordance with the disclosure, the temperature data of the subsoil region may be georeferenced and sent to a following compacting vehicle for determining a rolling pattern, said vehicle determining or adapting its rolling pattern based on said data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Martin Buschmann, Tobias Gotterbarm, Arnold Rutz
  • Patent number: 9394653
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a road finishing machine with a thermographic device releasably fixed to a portion of the machine for recording a georeferenced thermographic data record of at least one region of a pavement layer. The thermographic device includes a housing in which a detection unit for detecting a thermographic data record and a further detection unit for detecting a space-related data record for the thermographic data record are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Arnold Rutz, Henning Delius, Martin Buschmann, Tobias Gotterbarm, Christian Pawlik
  • Patent number: 8998301
    Abstract: A control platform for a road making machine comprises a fall protection for preventing the operator from falling down from the control platform. The disclosure is characterized by the fall protection comprising a pane of laminated glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Joseph Voegele AG
    Inventors: Ingo Herzberg, Tobias Gotterbarm
  • Publication number: 20150048595
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a road finishing machine with a chassis and a pushing device. The pushing device comprises at least one docking assembly and at least one absorber unit. The absorber unit is fixed to the chassis of the road finishing machine and comprises at least one piston-cylinder unit which comprises a cylinder and a working piston movable therein which subdivides the piston-cylinder unit into at least one first and one second chambers and is coupled to the docking assembly. The docking assembly may be positioned, by the movably mounted working piston, relative to the chassis between an extended position and at least one retracted position. In the piston-cylinder unit, at least one flow channel is provided between the first and the second chambers for letting a fluid enclosed in the piston-cylinder unit pass through, the fluid being prestressed in the extended position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Tobias GOTTERBARM, Thomas SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20140308074
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a road finishing machine with a thermographic device releasably fixed to a portion of the machine for recording a georeferenced thermographic data record of at least one region of a pavement layer. The thermographic device includes a housing in which a detection unit for detecting a thermographic data record and a further detection unit for detecting a space-related data record for the thermographic data record are disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Arnold RUTZ, Henning DELIUS, Martin BUSCHMANN, Tobias GOTTERBARM, Christian PAWLIK
  • Patent number: 8776940
    Abstract: A chassis for a road making machine comprises at least one first longitudinal beam which extends at least in sections laterally along an engine compartment of the road making machine. The longitudinal beam comprises a step which divides the longitudinal beam into an external longitudinal beam section and an internal longitudinal beam section. The internal longitudinal beam section forms a receiving area by the step in which a first cover element can be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Joseph Voegele AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schmidt, Tobias Gotterbarm
  • Publication number: 20130270865
    Abstract: A control platform for a road making machine comprises a fall protection for preventing the operator from falling down from the control platform. The disclosure is characterized by the fall protection comprising a pane of laminated glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Ingo Herzberg, Tobias Gotterbarm
  • Publication number: 20130272787
    Abstract: A chassis for a road making machine comprises at least one first longitudinal beam which extends at least in sections laterally along an engine compartment of the road making machine. The longitudinal beam comprises a step which divides the longitudinal beam into an external longitudinal beam section and an internal longitudinal beam section. The internal longitudinal beam section forms a receiving area by the step in which a first cover element can be received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Schmidt, Tobias Gotterbarm