Patents by Inventor VOLKER BRILL

VOLKER BRILL 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: 10829103
    Abstract: An agricultural machine for conducting an agricultural working process includes a combustion engine (2), electrical consumers (3-8), a chargeable electrical battery (9) for electrically supplying the consumers (3-8) and a monitor module (10) for monitoring the charging level of the battery (9). It is proposed that some of the electrical consumers (3-8) of the agricultural machine (1) are peripheral consumers (3-8) for providing functions in a parking state of the agricultural machine (1), in which the combustion engine (2) is shut off, that a power management module (11) is provided, which in the parking state of the agricultural machine (1) monitors the charging level of the battery (9) via the monitor module (11) and deactivates at least one peripheral consumer (3-8), when the charging level falls below a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: CLAAS E-Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Benjamin Heyne, Volker Brill, Christian Laing, Nermine Khairallah
  • Publication number: 20180177133
    Abstract: An agricultural machine for conducting an agricultural working process includes a combustion engine (2), electrical consumers (3-8), a chargeable electrical battery (9) for electrically supplying the consumers (3-8) and a monitor module (10) for monitoring the charging level of the battery (9). It is proposed that some of the electrical consumers (3-8) of the agricultural machine (1) are peripheral consumers (3-8) for providing functions in a parking state of the agricultural machine (1), in which the combustion engine (2) is shut off, that a power management module (11) is provided, which in the parking state of the agricultural machine (1) monitors the charging level of the battery (9) via the monitor module (11) and deactivates at least one peripheral consumer (3-8), when the charging level falls below a threshold level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: CLAAS E-Systems KGaA mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Benjamin Heyne, Volker Brill, Christian Laing, Nermine Khairallah
  • Patent number: 9483804
    Abstract: A server system for the administration of sequences for agricultural working machines made up of parameterized process steps of working devices includes a server and database in which a sequence inventory of sequences is stored. Sequence identifiers are assigned to each of the sequences of the sequence inventory, which describe one or more process steps of the respective sequence. A network interface to a global communication network is included to receive connection requests from a client and establish a connection-oriented, bidirectional data channel between the server and the client. The server receives a selection criterion from the client via the data channel, determines a sequence from the sequence inventory on the basis of a comparison of the criterion with the sequence identifiers and transmits the determined sequence to the client via the data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Losch, Markus Grevinga, Georg Eggenhaus, Victor Klueber, Eckehard Jeppe, Volker Brill
  • Publication number: 20140343803
    Abstract: A server system for the administration of sequences for agricultural working machines made up of parameterized process steps of working devices includes a server and database in which a sequence inventory of sequences is stored. Sequence identifiers are assigned to each of the sequences of the sequence inventory, which describe one or more process steps of the respective sequence. A network interface to a global communication network is included to receive connection requests from a client and establish a connection-oriented, bidirectional data channel between the server and the client. The server receives a selection criterium from the client via the data channel, determines a sequence from the sequence inventory on the basis of a comparison of the selection criterium with the sequence identifiers and transmits the determined sequence to the client via the data channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: CLAAS SELBSTFAHRENDE ERNTEMASCHINEN GMBH
    Inventors: MICHAEL LOSCH, MARKUS GREVINGA, GEORG EGGENHAUS, VICTOR KLUEBER, ECKEHARD JEPPE, VOLKER BRILL