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Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH


Location: Harsewinkel, DE
No. of patents: 95

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NumberTitleIssue Date
8170785Method for creating a route plan for agricultural machine systems
For creating a route plan for a group of agricultural working machine systems for working a territory, the machine systems include route planning data determination devices and they exchange data with each other and, based on exchanged route planning data, one share...
05/01/2012
8168044Thermochemical reactor for a self-propelled harvesting vehicle
A thermochemical reactor includes a contact surface and a pressing device for pressing raw material to be pyrolyzed against the rotationally symmetrical contact surface which is rotatable relative to the raw material. A generating line of the contact surface is orie...
05/01/2012
8162575Transport and assembly vehicle for a component module
A transport and assembly vehicle for a component module such as an aircraft engine includes a mobile platform which includes support arm structures on which the component module is situated during conveyance and while maintenance work is performed, and which are mov...
04/24/2012
8161718Self-propelled agricultural working machine
In a self-propelled agricultural working machine having working units whose working parameters are adjustable, moving at a ground speed that is regulated automatically as a function of at least one crop-material parameter and/or one working parameter of the working ...
04/24/2012
8145378Communication system for exchanging data
A communication system for exchanging data between data recipients and data generators provides the data exchange between stationary and/or mobile units and/or within a stationary or mobile unit, and has a communication network via which the data exchange takes plac...
03/27/2012
8113565Device for increasing container volume
The device for increasing volume of a container (24) has extension elements (37, 38, 39, 40) pivotally mounted on an upper edge (31) of an upper opening (32) so as to form a cover at least partially closing the upper opening (32) w...
02/14/2012
8108110Agricultural working machine
An agricultural working or harvesting machine has at least one working unit and a driver's cab in which, in a basic electronic display area of a display unit, several machine and/or crop material parameters set up in different functionality windows are visualized. T...
01/31/2012
8105140Method for distributing a material flow onto a field, and chopping and spreading device
In a method and device for spreading a material flow onto a field, the material flow emerging from a chopping mechanism of a chopping and spreading device, in particular a combine mounted straw chopper on a combine harvester, is conveyed to at least one guide elemen...
01/31/2012
8104254Front attachment for harvesting stalk plants with intake conveyor, picking assembly separating crops from stalked plants, and guide channel for guiding stalked plants
A front attachment for harvesting stalked plants has an intake conveyor mechanism that operates independently of the distance between rows, and a picking assembly located downstream thereof and transversely to the direction of travel, which separates the crops from ...
01/31/2012
8086378Method for monitoring the quality of crop material
A method for estimating a portion of undesired particles in crop material includes taking a photograph of the crop material; identifying images of at least one type of undesired particle in the photograph that was taken; measuring the surface area covered by the ima...
12/27/2011
8079899Mounting component for securing a crop handling element to a separator rotor
A mounting component for securing a crop handling element to a separator rotor is embodied as a profile-section component, with side walls facing toward one another and extending in some portions in the circumferential direction of the separator rotor; for securing ...
12/20/2011
8061112Agricultural working machine with ground speed control
A agricultural working machine includes at least one device for picking up crop material and transferring it to at least one intake conveyor mechanism that feeds the crop material to at least one downstream working unit that processes the crop material, and at least...
11/22/2011
8046139Method for controlling agricultural machine systems
For controlling several agricultural machine systems during operation on a territory, based on a reference line, an optimized route for working the territory is determined for the particular machine system, and the particular machine system is driven along this rout...
10/25/2011
8042644Self-propelled forage harvester
The present invention relates to a self-propelled forage harvester (1) that is equipped with a front attachment (3) and includes a rigid axle (5), a transmission (10) and two wheel gears (9), which are installed upstream of the dri...
10/25/2011
8019517Agricultural harvesting machine
An agricultural harvesting machine includes different working units, an input and display unit, a memory and evaluation unit, and a control device for influencing adjustable operating parameters of the working units, at least one set criterium being stored in the me...
09/13/2011
7950210Flywheel for timed knife drive
A cutter bar drive system for a draper header has a cutter bar disposed at a leading edge of the header to cut crop. A cutter bar gear box in operative engagement with the cutter bar is mounted on a forward portion of the header with a drive train mounted on the hea...
05/31/2011
7908838Agricultural harvesting machine with front attachment support
A self-propelled agricultural harvesting machine includes an agricultural front attachment which is supported via at least one carrier wheel which is in contact with a ground, at least one height-adjustable pick-up housing for adapting the agricultural front attachm...
03/22/2011
7877969Method for adjusting a working unit of a harvesting machine
A method of adjusting at least one working unit of a harvesting machine includes taking pictures or picture series of a crop-material flow at a position downstream from a particular working unit in a crop-material conveyance path at various setting states with certa...
02/01/2011
7873456Agricultural harvesting machine with transfer device
An agricultural harvesting machine, in particular a self-propelled forage harvester for picking up and processing crop material has a transfer device—which is located downstream from feeder and chopping devices and is swivelable around a horizontal and vertical ax...
01/18/2011
7833091Combine harvester clean crop elevator
A combine harvester has at least one cleaning device which includes at least one sieve and one cleaning fan, at least one conveyor device for conveying at least a portion of the crop material that exits the cleaning device into a higher region of the combine harvest...
11/16/2010
7798894Method for transferring crop material
In a method for transferring crop material from a harvesting machine to a hauling vehicle, with which the crop material is accelerated and ejected through a conveyor chute of a transfer device to a target point on the transport vehicle, the acceleration of the crop ...
09/21/2010
7756624Route planning system for agricultural working machines
A route planning system for an agricultural working machine including at least one crop material storage unit for storing quantities of crop material transferable to forage vehicles, has a unit for generating driving routes in a territory based on a defined working ...
07/13/2010
7752962Method and device for compressing harvested crop material to produce silage
A method and a device are provided to compress crop material laid down in single layers for producing silage in a horizontal silo, with the use of an agricultural working machine, that carries a compressing device, the crop material laid down in single layers is com...
07/13/2010
7742860Route planning system and method for agricultural working machines
In a route planning system and method for agricultural working machines, a defined working width is assigned to the agricultural working machines to generate driving routes in a territory, and dynamic adaptation of the planned driving route is carried out thereby en...
06/22/2010
7729834Method for creating reference driving tracks for agricultural working machines
A route planning system for agricultural working machines with a defined working width assigned to the agricultural working machine to generate driving routes in a territory includes a navigation module configured to generate the driving routes and having at least o...
06/01/2010
7721515Agricultural harvesting machine with a foreign-object detection device
An agricultural harvesting machine for harvesting and/or processing crop material has a transfer device for transferring crop material, an intake device that includes a foreign-object detection device for detecting foreign objects in a monitoring region of a crop ma...
05/25/2010
7713115Process and device for controlling working parts of a combine harvester
The process and device for controlling at least one operating condition parameter (54) of working parts (45) of a combine harvester (1) has at least one sensing device (36, 40) for monitoring a crop tailings stream (31) and for gen...
05/11/2010
7654141Device and a method for the detection of structure-borne acoustic vibrations
In a method and a device for the detection of at least one structure-borne acoustic vibration in a component of an agricultural harvesting machine, a timer is used to determine a transit-time difference of a structure-borne acoustic vibration that is received by at ...
02/02/2010
7654068Device for adjusting the position of the post-accelerator in an agricultural harvesting machine
In a device for adjusting the crop material passage at the post-accelerator in an agricultural harvesting machine, in particular in a self-propelled forage harvester that includes at least one front attachment for picking up the crop material, and that is assigned t...
02/02/2010
7630809Method for controlling a harvesting machine
In a method for controlling a harvesting machine various units of the harvesting machine are adjusted and/or monitored in a plurality of separate control processes based on certain received control commands, using a process coordination unit, an operating mode of a ...
12/08/2009
7630808Method for computing a target setting value
In a method for computing a target setting value—which is adapted to a harvesting process—for a control parameter of a working unit of a harvesting machine, operating-result curves are plotted for a plurality of different operating-result parameters as a functio...
12/08/2009
7618311Method and device for adjusting the length of cut of a chopping device of an agricultural harvesting machine
A chopping device and method of using the chopping device in an agricultural harvesting machine to adjust a length of cut, where the length of cut of the chopping device is adjusted depending on a rebound behavior of crop material to be chopped. ...
11/17/2009
7610125Method and device for optimizing operating parameters of an agricultural working machine
In a method and a device for carrying out the method to optimize operating parameters of an agricultural working machine, an optimization program map being assigned to each adjustable operating parameter in a memory unit, optimization program map A being subdivided ...
10/27/2009
7600362Inclined conveyor of an agricultural harvesting machine
An inclined conveyor of an agricultural harvesting machine has at least one endless pulling element, at least one pulling-means guide operative for redirecting of the at least one endless pulling element and being pivotable, at least one tensioning device for tensio...
10/13/2009
7555283Communication system and method for mobile and stationary devices
A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission...
06/30/2009
7552579Agricultural working machine header support between transport and working positions
An agricultural working machine, such as a combine harvester or forage harvester, has a feeding assembly arranged on the front for accommodating a header attachment which is designated to harvest and convey a harvested crop, and at least one gauge wheel attachment c...
06/30/2009
7548312Measuring device for ingredient detection
A measuring device has a sensor for registering at least one parameter selected from the group consisting of at least one ingredient, at least one property, and both, of a material being investigated by the sensor, the sensor including at least one illumination sour...
06/16/2009
7537519Transfer-assistance system
A transfer-assistance system for controlling a crop discharge flow from an agricultural harvesting machine has a transfer device provided in an agricultural working machine for carrying out a crop discharge flow. The system includes a transfer device cover assigned ...
05/26/2009
7533516Agricultural harvesting machine chopper drum sharpening device
An agricultural harvesting machine, in particular a self-propelled forage harvester, has a chopper drum that includes chopping blades, a sharpening device that is assigned to the chopper drum and is drivable via a drive for sharpening the chopping blades, wherein th...
05/19/2009
7523599Method and device for adjusting the sensitivity of a foreign-object detection device
In a method and a device adjust the sensitivity of a detection device for foreign objects in an agricultural harvesting machine by way of which interfering signals are eliminated despite different and constantly changing harvesting conditions, thereby enabling preve...
04/28/2009
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