Patents Issued in September 17, 2019
  • Patent number: PP30882
    Abstract: Described herein is a new and distinct rose variety named ‘80102WABARA’.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: ROSE UNIVERSE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiji Kunieda
  • Patent number: PP30883
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Loropetalum plant named ‘SUZUKI’ is disclosed, characterized by white flowers with a very sight pink flush, and strong heat tolerance and resistance to color change in extreme temperatures. Plant habit is very dense and full growing with very vibrant burgundy foliage. The new variety is a Loropetalum, normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Spring Meadow Nursery, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuji Suzuki
  • Patent number: PP30884
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Fichrymerchepu’, characterized by its upright to outwardly spreading and uniformly and broadly mounded plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; dense and full plant form; uniform and freely flowering habit; medium-sized decorative-type inflorescences with dark red purple-colored ray florets; mid-season flowering habit, grown under natural season conditions, plants begin flowering in early to mid-September in the United Kingdom; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.
    Inventor: Peter Wain
  • Patent number: PP30885
    Abstract: A new and distinct variety of Phalaenopsis plant named ‘PHALGATYH’, particularly characterized by having very light purple striped flowers with extra-large light reddish purple lips, 1 to 3 peduncles that are long and moderate, leaves that are narrow oblong, and is propagated by meristem tissue culture, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: ANTHURA B.V.
    Inventor: Martinus Nicolaas Gerardus Van Swieten
  • Patent number: PP30886
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Dopetsunpepu’, characterized by its semi-mounding to semi-trailing plant habit; moderately vigorous to vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; flowers that are red purple and pale yellow to white in color; and good garden performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.
    Inventor: Ruth Kobayashi
  • Patent number: PP30887
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Agapanthus plant, ‘PC 11107’, that is characterized by its early flowering habit, its short plant height, its flowers that are bright, intense deep blue in color, its flower tepals that are broad, and its deciduous growth habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventor: Richard John Fulcher
  • Patent number: RE47603
    Abstract: A trophy mount for displaying the skull and horn or antler of game animals comprising; a base with one or more holes in the base for attaching the base to a vertical surface, a wing that attaches to the base by means of an upper and lower hinge socket on the base that are able to receive an upper and lower wing joint from the wing with the sockets and joints sized to allow the wing to pivot with respect to the base which is secured to the vertical surface, a bracket that has one or more adjustment holes and a pivot hole, means for securing the bracket to the wing such that the bracket can be positioned at various angles with respect to the base, a center prong on the bracket that is sized to fit within a Foramen magnum of a vertebrate game animal, and a right and left side arm that are spaced, sized and positioned below and slightly in front of the center prong such that the right and left side arms fit into the condyloid fossa of a game animal's skull.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Ivent LLC
    Inventor: Robert Jensen Shaw
  • Patent number: RE47604
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes a memory, a specifying unit, and a display controller. The memory stores a corresponding color table representing correspondence relationships between T1 values of which value ranges with respect to each tissue are known and colors to be assigned to pixels with the T1 values. The specifying unit analyzes a T1-valued image and specifies colors to be assigned to each pixel on the basis of T1 values converted from pixel values of each pixel and the corresponding color table. The display controller displays on a display the image color-coded with the specified colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mitsue Miyazaki
  • Patent number: RE47605
    Abstract: A polycrystalline diamond abrasive cutting element consists generally of a layer of high grade polycrystalline diamond bonded to a cemented carbide substrate. The polycrystalline diamond layer has a working surface and an outer peripheral surface and is characterized by having an annular region or a portion thereof adjacent the peripheral surface that is lean in catalysing material. A region adjacent the working surface is also lean in catalysing material such that in use, as a wear scar develops, both the leading edge and the trailing edge thereof are located in a region lean in catalysing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Baker Hughes, A GE Company, LLC
    Inventor: Roy Derrick Achilles
  • Patent number: RE47606
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of Linezolid. More specifically, the present invention relates to an improved process for preparing (S)—N-[[3-[3-fluoro-4-[4-morpholinyl]phenyl]-2-oxo-5-oxazolidinyl]methyl] phthalimide and (S)-glycidyl phthalimide intermediates, which are used in the preparation of Linezolid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: OPTIMUS DRUGS PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Srinivas Reddy Desi Reddy, Subba Reddy Peketi, Dnyandev Ragho Rane, Venkata Srinivasa Rao Velivela
  • Patent number: RE47607
    Abstract: Reagents and compositions for use in reactions catalysed by luciferase enzymes, and in particular for use in luciferase-based gene reporter assays are described. The invention also provides methods and compositions for, inter alia, increasing the sensitivity and/or improving the kinetics of luciferase-catalysed reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: GENE STREAM PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Marco Peter Leu, John Michael Daly
  • Patent number: RE47608
    Abstract: A method and apparatus with predictive triggering includes a housing including electronics operable to perform a process that can be activated by a user depressing a trigger with a finger. A trigger is operable to activate the electronics to perform the process. A proximity sensor is operable to detect a user's finger in proximity to the trigger. A processor coupled to the electronics, trigger, and proximity sensor, wherein when the proximity sensor detects a user's finger in proximity to the trigger, before the user's finger actually depresses the trigger, the processor initiates activation of the electronics to perform a portion of the process, and when the user's finger depresses the trigger, the processor directs the electronics to complete the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: David S. Koch
  • Patent number: RE47609
    Abstract: The invention relates to a detection system for automatic detection of bone cancer metastases from a set of isotope bone scan images of a patients skeleton, the system comprising a shape identifier unit, a hotspot detection unit, a hotspot feature extraction unit, a first artificial neural network unit, a patient feature extraction unit, and a second artificial neural network unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Exini Diagnostics AB
    Inventors: Iman Hamadeh, Pierre Nordblom, Karl Sjöstrand
  • Patent number: RE47610
    Abstract: This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods to provide an internal supply rail with over voltage protection using a host power source, an external power source, and a switch configured to receive indications of host and external power source validity. In an example, the switch can be configured to provide the internal supply rail using the host power source when the indication of host power source validity indicates a valid host power source and the external power source when the indication of host power source validity indicates an invalid host power source and the indication of external power source validity indicates a valid external power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory A. Maher, Myron J. Miske
  • Patent number: RE47611
    Abstract: A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor pre-processing enhanced data, a data formatter generating enhanced data packets including known data, a multiplexer multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets, a data randomizer randomizing the multiplexed data packets, an RS encoder RS-encoding the randomized data packets, and a data interleaver interleaving the RS-coded data packets, where a plurality of known data sequences are included in the interleaved enhanced data packets. Finally, the DTV transmitter further includes an enhanced encoder which codes each block of enhanced data placed between any two of the known data sequences and bypasses the interleaved main data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyoung Gon Lee, In Hwan Choi, Kyong Won Kang
  • Patent number: RE47612
    Abstract: A streaming server and a method are described herein for providing a content stream with advertisements embedded therein through a network (e.g., IP network, CDN network, wireless network) to a client (e.g., personal computer, a mobile phone, a tablet, or a HTTP capable television).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Ericsson AB
    Inventors: Chris Phillips, Bob Forsman, Charles Dasher, Jennifer Reynolds, Steve Martin
  • Patent number: RE47613
    Abstract: A method for operating a multiple point (MP) controller includes receiving, from a source primary point, a handover required message for a user equipment coupled to the source primary point, the handover required message including target primary point information and MP radio bearer information. The method also includes determining an MP configuration according to the handover required message, and sending, to a target primary point, a handover request message including the MP configuration and the MP radio bearer information. The method further includes sending, to the source primary point, a handover message including the MP configuration, the MP radio bearer information, and reconfiguration information for the user equipment, the handover message initiating a handover of a subset of the MP radio bearer from the source primary point to the target primary point, and receiving, from the target primary point, a handover complete message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hao Bi, Yishen Sun
  • Patent number: 10412871
    Abstract: A deep ripper used to penetrate and fracture the soil below the surface that includes a leading edge configured to decrease wear and reduce drag, while providing superior performance. The deep ripper is comprised of a main body, a top cap, a replaceable wing, and a bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: USM Wear Technologies, Bourgault Tillage Tools
    Inventors: Loran Balvanz, Dean Bigelow
  • Patent number: 10412872
    Abstract: Soil working tool for an agricultural machine, in particular a cultivator, which is fixed on a tool holder and has a tine-like region to which a preferably guide plate-like element is attached. In order to achieve an improved soil flow across the soil working tool with good wear protection and thus a sufficient service life of the soil working tool, the tine-like region has two side strips which run in the longitudinal direction of the soil working tool and have notch-like recesses extending in the transverse direction, and that an at least approximately smooth center strip region is located between the two side strips in the center in the longitudinal direction of the tine-like region of the soil working tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: AMAZONEN-WERKE H. DREYER GMBH & CO. KG, BETEK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Silvio Scherf, Joachim Polster, Ulrich Krämer, Fabian Seifried
  • Patent number: 10412873
    Abstract: A towed soil cultivation implement (1) is proposed in which the soil tillage tools (5) are guided by a contact pressure controlled depth guide device (9), which enables a constant weight load on a downstream, adjustable reconsolidation implement (6) on uneven ground as well. In the process, the pull line between tractor (3) and soil cultivation implement (1) are maintained in an optimum position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: LEMKEN GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Georg Achten, Johannes Bodewig, Clemens Diepers, Josef Van Haaren, Christoph Happe, Sebastian Karsten, Ludger Maas, Georg Paulessen
  • Patent number: 10412874
    Abstract: Apparatus for creating a ditch or furrow for agricultural use, including an implement pulled by a tractor. Generally, an implement includes a plow, a roller, and a wheel, such as a packer wheel. A plow is located towards an implement front end, and a wheel is located towards an implement back end, typically with the plow coaligned with a wheel. A roller is located on one or both sides of the plow wherein a frame supports the configurations of the plow, roller, and wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: YELLOW JACKET IMPLEMENT, INC
    Inventor: Cody Post
  • Patent number: 10412875
    Abstract: In one aspect, a shank assembly for an agricultural implement may include a shank and a biasing element configured to exert a biasing force on the shank. The shank assembly may also include a reversible mounting plate defining a mounting aperture offset from a centerline of the reversible mounting plate such that a position of a second mounting location of the biasing element relative to a first mounting location of the biasing element differs depending on whether the reversible mounting plate is provided in a first orientation relative to the biasing element or a second orientation relative to the biasing element. The biasing element may exert a first biasing force on the shank when the reversible member is oriented in the first orientation and a second, different biasing force on the shank when the reversible member is oriented in the second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventor: Michael G. Kovach
  • Patent number: 10412876
    Abstract: An agricultural tillage implement for use in a field. The agricultural tillage implement including a frame section and a plurality of wing sections. The frame section has a pull hitch extending in a travel direction. Each of the plurality of wing sections are coupled to the frame section and/or a wing section. The wing sections each have an articulated portion pivotal about an axis substantially perpendicular to the travel direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Matthew R. Sudbrink, Dean A. Knobloch
  • Patent number: 10412877
    Abstract: A remotely positionable stabilizer wheel arrangement for a towable agricultural implement utilizes a control unit that receives an input signal indicative of a desired position of the stabilizer wheel, and/or a desired depth of penetration of tillage tools operatively attached to the front and rear of the implement frame, to automatically control a hydraulic positioning cylinder of the remotely positionable stabilizer wheel arrangement to position and hold the stabilizer wheel at the desired position of the stabilizer wheel, by controlling pressure in the hydraulic cylinder to hold the stabilizer wheel at a target position determined from the desired position input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Barrick, John Endsley, James W. Henry, Tracey Meiners, Kevin McKee, John Posselius, Kena Shah
  • Patent number: 10412878
    Abstract: An agricultural tillage implement including a first frame configured to be moved in a travel direction, at least one second frame coupled with the first frame, at least one rolling basket assembly coupled to the at least one second frame, at least one actuator pivotally connected to the at least one second frame, and a pressure control system operatively connected to the at least one rolling basket assembly. The pressure control system includes at least one sensor coupled to the at least one rolling basket assembly for sensing a load exerted on the at least one rolling basket assembly by a ground surface and providing a downward pressure measurement signal. The pressure control system also includes a controller in communication with the at least one sensor and configured to control the adjustable downward force applied by the at least one actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Joel Karstens, James W. Henry
  • Patent number: 10412879
    Abstract: A decelerating device is mounted in series within a pneumatic particulate material delivery passage that communicates from a particulate material supply to a material outlet of a furrow opener for depositing particulate material into a furrow formed by the furrow opener. The decelerating device has a duct member extending longitudinally between opposing open ends for connection in line with the pneumatic particulate material delivery passage. A plurality of exhaust openings communicating through a peripheral wall of the duct member to exhaust air therethrough. A gate member is supported on the duct member so as to be movable relative to the exhaust openings to vary a cumulative exposed area of the exhaust openings. A perforated screen member spans across the exhaust openings having a smaller aperture size than the exhaust openings to ensure small particulate materials being conveyed do not escape through the exhaust openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Tread Enterprises Ltd.
    Inventor: Brian Cruson
  • Patent number: 10412880
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a seed sensor is disclosed adapted to fit a conventional mounting location in existing seed tubes that provides improved performance by providing a wide light source (more LEDS), a wide photodetector and a current profiling scheme for the LEDs that provides more light at the opposite ends of the LED array. A result of such an arrangement is to improve seed resolution and to reduce seed spatial variability within the seed tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TSI, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ronald W. Steffen, Dahu Qi, Gregry C. Miller
  • Patent number: 10412881
    Abstract: A planting system including a plurality of seeding row assemblies, each having components maintained at a controlled elevation. The seeding row assembly includes a tillage row unit controlled to maintain a desired elevation relative to a seeding row unit, the seeding row unit being configured to passively follow the local terrain. Each seeding row assembly can include two position sensors that generate signals corresponding to the elevation of the seeding row unit and the ground engagement attachment, respectively, or a differential position sensor that generates signals corresponding to the difference in the elevations. Various embodiments include a local closed loop controller that adjusts elevation of the tillage row unit relative to the seeding row unit to a desired set point. In some embodiments, the down force of the seeding row unit is actively controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventor: Shane Houck
  • Patent number: 10412882
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring an agricultural implement. The system includes a monitor device, a communication module and a display device. The monitor device is in electrical communication with a plurality of sensors monitoring the operation of agricultural implement. The implement sensors generate “as-applied” data. The as-applied data is processed and transmitted to a display device via a communication module. The display device renders maps representing the as-applied data. The generated maps may be accessed and displayed as map overlays on a display device with a common view characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: The Climate Corporation
    Inventors: Justin Koch, Doug Sauder, Tim Sauder, Jakob Stuber
  • Patent number: 10412883
    Abstract: A modular cutterbar assembly capable of moving in a direction of travel may include a first module forming a first surface, a second surface, a front edge, and a rear edge. The assembly may also include a second module coupled to the first module such that the second module forms a first surface, a second surface, a front edge, and a rear edge. A joint is defined between first and second module and defining a joint plane. A first coupler is defined through the joint of the first and second modules at each respective front edge and defining a first coupler axis, and a second coupler is defined through the joint of the first and second modules at each respective rear edge and defining a second coupler axis. The joint plane is angled relative to the direction of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Roger Stephenson, Todd Aeschliman, Thomas Nichols
  • Patent number: 10412884
    Abstract: A module cutterbar assembly includes a plurality of modules coupled to one another along a joint. Each module has a first surface defining a first plane and an internal cavity. A drive transfer mechanism is disposed within the internal cavity of each of the plurality of modules, and a drive hub assembly is mechanically coupled to the drive transfer mechanism and extends out of the internal cavity away from the first plane. A cutting disk is coupled to the drive hub of each of the plurality of modules. A coupling mount is positioned on each side of each joint and extends from the first plane towards the cutting disk. A cavity is partially defined by the first plane, the cutting disk, and the drive hub in each module. The coupling mount is disposed at least partially within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Roger Stephenson, Todd Aeschliman, Thomas Nichols
  • Patent number: 10412885
    Abstract: A modular cutterbar assembly operably coupled to a work machine includes at least one module and an end cap coupled to the at least one module. The end cap includes an upper surface defined between a first end and a second end, and an inner cavity is defined in the first end of the end cap. The inner cavity is configured to substantially enclose a drive transfer mechanism. An aperture is defined in the upper surface, and a coupler arm is integrally formed with the second end of the end cap. The coupler arm is configured to be coupled to the work machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Roger Stephenson, Todd Aeschliman, Thomas Nichols
  • Patent number: 10412886
    Abstract: A rotary cutterbar disk hub assembly for diverting debris includes a cutterbar housing defining an internal cavity and a bearing housing defining an axis and coupled to the cutterbar housing. A labyrinth is defined in the bearing housing circumferentially about the axis, and a barrier is formed by the bearing housing at a location radially outward of the labyrinth. A disk hub is positioned concentric with the axis and coupled to the bearing housing and cutterbar housing. The disk hub forms at least one protrusion that extends towards the bearing housing and is radially adjacent to the labyrinth. The barrier restricts a portion of the debris from entering the labyrinth, and the at least one protrusion severs debris that is disposed near the labyrinth as the disk hub rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Roger Stephenson
  • Patent number: 10412887
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Füchtling, Mathieu Köhler, Thomas Hinz, Burkhard Sagemüller, Udo Beschorn, Andreas Wielenberg, Balazs Tillman, Berthold Hamphoff
  • Patent number: 10412888
    Abstract: A method for operating a harvester may include initially operating the harvester in a discharge harvesting mode such that harvested crops are conveyed to a distal end of an elevator of the harvester and subsequently discharged from the harvester through a discharge opening defined by a storage hopper located at the distal end of the elevator. The method also includes reducing an operating speed of the elevator and blocking the discharge opening defined by the storage hopper upon receipt of an operator input associated with operating the harvester in a storage harvesting mode. Additionally, the method includes actively adjusting the operating speed of the elevator based on a crop flow parameter of the harvester as the harvested crops expelled from the distal end of the elevator are being stored within a storage volume of the storage hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Matway, Craig E. Murray, Daenio Cleodolphi, Carlos Visconti
  • Patent number: 10412889
    Abstract: A user device, that is remote from a combine harvester, communicates with the remote harvester to receive contextual information indicative of machine settings on the combine harvester. Remote view and control logic receives the contextual information from the combine harvester, along with image or video display information generated from an image capture device (such as a video camera or other image capture device) on the combine harvester. The contextual information is displayed, along with the video or image information on the remote user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla, Narendar Reddy Karedla
  • Patent number: 10412890
    Abstract: A sickle cutting system is mounted on a header for forward travel over ground having a standing crop thereon and includes a cutter bar with a plurality of knife guards and two opposed sickle bars driven in opposite phase with a drive system for driving the sickle bar through repeated cycles of reciprocating movement from start-up of the system through to a shut-down. The drive system includes a control device responsive to the sensor signals from both of the first and second drive systems for advancing or retarding one of the first and second drive systems so that a number of sensor signals obtained from the first drive system is continually maintained so as to be substantially equal to a number of sensor signals obtained from the second drive system to maintain the sickle bars in opposite phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: MacDon Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: James Thomas Dunn, Graham Michael Leverick, Lance Thomas Willer
  • Patent number: 10412891
    Abstract: A draper belt system is provided that includes first and second draper belt assemblies. The first draper belt assembly includes first and second rollers, and a draper belt looped around the first and second rollers. The first roller defines a first roller diameter, a first central longitudinal axis, and a first plane extending through the first central longitudinal axis. The second draper belt assembly includes third and fourth rollers, and a draper belt looped around the third and fourth rollers. The third roller defines a third roller diameter dimensioned smaller than the first roller diameter, a second central longitudinal axis, and a second plane extending through the second central longitudinal axis. The third roller of the second draper belt assembly is disposed adjacent to the first roller with the first central longitudinal axis extending parallel to the second central longitudinal axis, and the second plane offset from the first plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Joshua S. Joyce, Zachary Long, James F. Rayfield, Andrew V. Lauwers, Blaine R. Noll
  • Patent number: 10412892
    Abstract: A hay rake tooth assembly having a base plate. One or more tines that extend through and are captured by one or more holes in the base plate. A molding connected to the base plate and molded about the tine extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Rowse Hydraulic Rakes Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Rodney D. Rowse, Randy L. Worden
  • Patent number: 10412893
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for harvesting crops from a field and to a method for working a field by towing an apparatus such as a tilling apparatus, wherein the methods of the invention employ manned and unmanned vehicles. The operation and movement of the unmanned vehicles is controlled by the drivers of the manned vehicles which are continuously in the vicinity of the unmanned vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Bart M. A. Missotten, Christopher A. Foster, Neseth Cora Kong, John H. Posselius, Frederik Tallir, Karel M. C. Viaene
  • Patent number: 10412894
    Abstract: A grain processing assembly having a feeder assembly with a discharge end that is adjacent and above an opening in a thresher assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Gary W. Clem, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian W. Carr, Scott A. Sporrer, Adam R. Koesters, Ryan A. Carstensen, Cody J. Sobotka
  • Patent number: 10412895
    Abstract: The concave section includes a first concave body. The first concave body includes a first leading end, a first trailing end, a first upstream side and a first downstream side. A width between the first upstream side and the first downstream side is no greater than 10 inches. The first concave body includes a first crop engagement face that extends between the first ends and the first sides. The first crop engagement face includes at least one of a first thresher profile portion and a first separator profile portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Kondex Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Theisen, Neal J. Stoffel
  • Patent number: 10412896
    Abstract: A system for installing separator grates within a combine may include a grate frame having first and second frame members extending circumferentially between proximal and distal ends. The system may also include a first and second separator grate sections configured to be supported between the frame members along first and second circumferential frame sections of the grate frame, respectively. Additionally, the grate frame may include first and second guide rails extending between the frame members along at least a portion of the first circumferential frame section. When the first separator grate section is being installed from a side of the grate frame located adjacent to the proximal end, at least a portion of the first separator grate section may be configured to ride along the guide rails at a location between the frame member as the first separator grate section is moved towards the distal end of the grate frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Travis J. Ohms, Michael J. Matway, Craig E. Murray
  • Patent number: 10412897
    Abstract: A square baler including a baling chamber having a floor formed of spaced profiles, side walls and a top wall, and a density belt surrounding the baling chamber. The density belt is formed of a U-shaped frame having three beams welded to one another to define a floor beam for supporting the floor of the baling chamber and two upright beams for supporting the side walls of the baling chamber and a tensioning rod releasably secured to the upper ends of the two upright beams to prevent the upright beams from splaying apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Xavier G. J. M. Bonte, Stefan De Rycke, Frederik Demon, Luigi Forghieri
  • Patent number: 10412898
    Abstract: Bale measuring method for a rectangular baler includes the steps of: measuring a movement of a binding material that is being tied around a bale; using the measured movement of the binding material to calibrate a measurement and calculation tool for measuring a movement of the bale in the baler and for calculating a length of the bale based on said measurement; determining the length of the bale using the calibrated measurement and calculation tool as the bale moves backward in the baler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Tom Coen, Didier O. M. Verhaeghe
  • Patent number: 10412899
    Abstract: A tree pruning assembly is provided. The assembly comprises a lopper comprising two lopper handles pivotally connected to one another and a respective cutting blade arranged on an end of each of the lopper handles, a pruner adapted to be detachably connected to either one of the lopper handles, a saw adapted to be detachably connected to the other of the lopper handles, and a respective connection device for detachably connecting each of the pruner and the saw to a respective one of the lopper handles. The connection devices may be of identical construction so that the saw and pruner can each be connected to either of the lopper handles. A connection device for connecting a saw or pruner to a lopper handle is also encompassed by the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventor: Shawn Jacques
  • Patent number: 10412900
    Abstract: An implement system for a machine. The implement system includes a boom, an implement, a roller assembly and a carriage. The boom has a telescopic structure and a first end. The implement is coupled to the first end of the boom. The roller assembly is configured to be coupled to the machine. The carriage is engaged with the roller assembly and is coupled to the boom. The carriage is configured to move linearly along a longitudinal axis of the machine between a first position and a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Progress Rail Services Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Lynn West, Mark T Plyler, Richard David Mills
  • Patent number: 10412901
    Abstract: Provided is a system (1) and method for identifying one or more plants in a population of two or more plants (4). The method includes monitoring one or more parameters of a plant (4) of the population and generating one or more time signals indicative of values of the one or more parameters. The signals are processed to calculate one or both of a transpiration rate of each plant and a rate of change of a transpiration rate over each of one or more time intervals. The plants are then ranked using an algorithm involving the calculated transpiration rates, and plants having a ranking above a predetermined ranking are identified. Further provided is a system for carrying out the method of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd.
    Inventors: Menachem Moshelion, Rony Wallach
  • Patent number: 10412902
    Abstract: A plant tray having a bottom and a sidewall. The bottom has at least one prominence rising from the inner surface of the bottom. The at least two prominences have at least one elevated drainage opening that is elevated above the inner surface of the bottom. A planting is made with at least one plant that is grown in soil in the plant tray and has air pruned roots at the at least one elevated drainage opening. The medium, such as soil, is watered to allow water to initially reside in the inner surface of the bottom to a level limited by the at least one elevated drainage opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: A TO Z VAN WINGERDEN AND ASSOCIATES, LLC
    Inventor: Alan VanWingerden
  • Patent number: 10412903
    Abstract: A double walled holder is provided. The double-walled holder provides a floor and walls capable of attachment of various hooks to the walls of the holder. The double-walled holder has an interior cavity to receive an insert. The double-walled holder holds images and momentoes as well as receiving an insert capable of holding a plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Inventors: Nicole Brown, Janet Fivecoat-Asbury