Patents by Inventor Waldemar Thiesmann

Waldemar Thiesmann 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).

  • Publication number: 20240107944
    Abstract: An agricultural harvesting machine having a cutting unit for cutting harvested material and a driver assistance system is disclosed. The driver assistance system includes a memory in which control strategies for the operation of the cutting unit are stored and a computing device for controlling a cutting angle of the cutting unit in accordance with the control strategies. The computing device is configured to link first and second control strategy to one another via a weighting variable, with the weighting variable being adjustable by a driver. The driver assistance system uses at least one of the control strategies and sensed forefield information to automatically determine the cutting angle of the cutting unit and to automatically control the cutting unit based on the determined cutting angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Waldemar Thiesmann, Christoph Bussmann, Christian Cord-Kruse, Dennis Neitemeier, Andreas Wielenberg, Christian Füchtling, Bastian Bormann, Andreas Wilken, Maik Heufekes, Joachim Baumgarten
  • Publication number: 20240065152
    Abstract: A method and system for the optimized determination of machine parameters of an agricultural production machine is disclosed. The agricultural production machine has a driver assistance system and a sensor assembly and performs an agricultural task in a local context. A determination routine the driver assistance system uses the strategy specifications as input parameters of the instruction for use to determine the optimized machine parameters optimized with respect to the strategy specifications as output parameters of the instruction for use, wherein the strategy is parameterized with initial strategy parameters at the beginning of the execution of the agricultural task. The driver assistance system uses strategy parameters as the initial strategy parameters that have already been optimized by at least one agricultural production machine in a similar local context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Bastian Bormann, Waldemar Thiesmann, Joachim Baumgarten, Andreas Wilken, Heinrich Warkentin, Mohamed Altaleb, Henning Deeken
  • Publication number: 20240065155
    Abstract: An agricultural production machine configured for determining optimized working parameters for the of the agricultural production machine is disclosed. The agricultural production machine has a driver assistance system and a sensor system and performs an agricultural task in a local context. The driver assistance system comprises a map control system that includes one or more maps to optimize work parameters of the process units of the agricultural production machine. A particular characteristic map describes a relationship between working parameters of the process unit and quality parameters using initial working points. When performing the agricultural task, the driver assistance system checks a local context to determine whether a context-related map is available and, if so, replace the basic map with the context-related map in order to determine optimized working parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Waldemar Thiesmann, Heinrich Warkentin, Mohamed Altaleb, Henner Vöcking, Bastian Bormann
  • Publication number: 20230350407
    Abstract: An assistance system based on electronic data exchange for enabling an autonomous vehicle to act as an autonomous agricultural production machine and an autonomous agricultural production machine is disclosed. The assistance system is configured to plan the deployment of at least one autonomous vehicle, to transmit the information required for the deployment to the autonomous vehicle, to at least partially control the autonomous vehicle during working mode and to monitor the working mode of the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: CLAAS E-Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhold Mähler, Christian Ehlert, Bastian Bormann, Joachim Baumgarten, Dennis Neitemeier, Johann Witte, Jannik Redenius, Arne Bohl, Eberhard Nacke, Christoph Apke, Timo Korthals, Waldemar Thiesmann, Axel Schröder, Robin Monkenbusch
  • Publication number: 20230350426
    Abstract: A method and a system for deployment planning and coordinating a vehicle fleet comprising a plurality of agricultural work vehicles is disclosed. Different agricultural work processes may be performed on a field with the work vehicles having a work unit for performing at least one of the agricultural work processes. At least one work vehicle of the vehicle fleet is operated autonomously. Further, the database-driven management system may generate the deployment plan. For example, while planning a particular agricultural work process comprising a sequence of work steps, the work vehicles in the vehicle fleet are coordinated with one another by assigning at least one autonomous work vehicle to a respective work step of the agricultural work process with operational parameters being transmitted to the autonomous work vehicle in order to perform the assigned respective work step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhold Mähler, Christian Ehlert, Bastian Bormann, Joachim Baumgarten, Dennis Neitemeier, Johann Witte, Jannik Redenius, Arne Bohl, Eberhard Nacke, Christoph Apke, Timo Korthals, Waldemar Thiesmann, Axel Schröder, Robin Monkenbusch
  • Publication number: 20230345856
    Abstract: A method for monitoring autonomous agricultural production machines is disclosed. The autonomous agricultural production machine autonomously performs an agricultural job. When an anomaly occurs, the autonomous agricultural production machine performs a response routine, interrupting the performance of the agricultural job. The autonomous agricultural production machine senses anomaly data during and/or after the response routine and transmits the anomaly data to a remote monitoring center in a reporting routine that a user may access in the remote monitoring center. The remote monitoring center generates, based on the anomaly data, a control instruction and transmits the control instruction to the autonomous agricultural production machine to execute in order to further respond to the anomaly and thereafter continue to perform the agricultural job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: CLAAS E-Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhold Mähler, Christian Ehlert, Bastian Bormann, Joachim Baumgarten, Dennis Neitemeier, Johann Witte, Jannik Redenius, Arne Bohl, Eberhard Nacke, Christoph Apke, Timo Korthals, Waldemar Thiesmann, Axel Schröder, Robin Monkenbusch
  • Publication number: 20230350423
    Abstract: A swarm assistance system for autonomous agricultural universal production machines is disclosed. The swarm assistance system is integrated into an agricultural work network. The agricultural work network connects autonomous agricultural universal production machines as providers of agricultural jobs and customers of agricultural jobs with each other and with the swarm assistance system. The autonomous agricultural universal production machines are configured to perform a plurality of different agricultural jobs by being equipped with changing work assemblies. The swarm assistance system receives request data relating to a requested agricultural job from the customers, matches the request data with capacity data of at least one of the agricultural universal production machines and, based on the result of the matching, rents at least one agricultural universal production machine to perform the requested agricultural job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: CLAAS E-Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhold Mähler, Christian Ehlert, Bastian Bormann, Joachim Baumgarten, Dennis Neitemeier, Johann Witte, Jannik Redenius, Arne Bohl, Eberhard Nacke, Christoph Apke, Timo Korthals, Waldemar Thiesmann, Axel Schröder, Robin Monkenbusch
  • Publication number: 20230350409
    Abstract: A method and a system for monitoring the operation of at least one autonomous agricultural production machine is disclosed. The method comprises collecting data representing the operating parameters and environmental parameters of the autonomous agricultural production machine and detecting an irregularity based on the data. Once an irregularity is determined, the collected data are transmitted to a database and saved there. The irregularity is identified by processing the collected data in an analysis routine, and an instruction is generated for switching the autonomous agricultural production machine from a safe operating state to a normal operating state depending on the identified irregularity, and the instruction is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhold Mähler, Christian Ehlert, Bastian Bormann, Joachim Baumgarten, Dennis Neitemeier, Johann Witte, Jannik Redenius, Arne Bohl, Eberhard Nacke, Christoph Apke, Timo Korthals, Waldemar Thiesmann, Axel Schröder, Robin Monkenbusch
  • Publication number: 20230286383
    Abstract: An agricultural work machine and a method for operation an agricultural work machine are disclosed. The agricultural work machine includes a driver’s cab with an interior space spatially partially delimited by a front window and at least one side window, a driver’s seat arranged in the interior space, an input device for entering input by an operator, a visualization system for visualizing information for an operator sitting on the driver’s seat, and a control device which is communication with the visualization system. The control device controls the visualization system in such a way that process information relevant to the selected work process is visualized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Waldemar Thiesmann, Klaus Albers, Robert Beck, Stefan Galland, Jan Geiger, Ingo Kirchbeck, Michael Losch, Michael Piontek, Peter Juerschik, Dennis Neitemeier, Eckehard Jeppe, Reinhard Frenser, Joachim Baumgarten, Bastian Bormann, Andreas Wilken, Maik Heufekes, Matthias Domnik, Marvin Barther, Johann Witte, Maximilian Schröder
  • Patent number: 9603302
    Abstract: An agricultural working machine has at least one working unit and a display device for displaying or adjusting parameters of the working machine the at least one working unit of both. The display device has a display unit with jointly depictable display elements for visualization of parameter-based values, the display elements preferably arranged concentrically in a form of circular-ring sections. The display device also includes at least one bar display that at least partially encircles the display elements radially on the outer side. Indicator element for displaying a defined value are disposed on the at least one bar display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Neu, Michael Losch, Stefan Teroerde, Klaus Schaefer, Bernd Holtmann, Joachim Baumgarten, Markus Brune, Waldemar Thiesmann
  • Publication number: 20150088386
    Abstract: An agricultural working machine has at least one working unit and a display device for displaying or adjusting parameters of the working machine the at least one working unit of both. The display device has a display unit with jointly depictable display elements for visualization of parameter-based values, the display elements preferably arranged concentrically in a form of circular-ring sections. The display device also includes at least one bar display that at least partially encircles the display elements radially on the outer side. Indicator element for displaying a defined value are disposed on the at least one bar display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Sebastian Neu, Michael Losch, Stefan Teroerde, Klaus Schaefer, Bernd Holtmann, Joachim Baumgarten, Markus Brune, Waldemar Thiesmann