Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen Gmbh

Claas Ohg

Class Ohg

Werner Fitzner

Joachim Baumgarten

Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg

Willi Behnke

Thilo Steckel

Norbert Diekhans

Sebastian Neu

Andreas Wilken

Christoph Bussmann

Heinrich Ostrup

Kai Oetzel

Joachim Dr Baumgarten

A driver assistance system for an agricultural working machine, in particular a combine harvester has a large number of working mechanisms, an arithmetic logic unit, and at least one display unit, in which the arithmetic logic unit may process information generated by machine-internal sensor systems, external information, and information that is storable in the arithmetic logic unit, and in which the driver assistance system overcomes&#x2014;with consideration for at least a selection of the available information&#x2014;critical functions of the agricultural working machine in that efficiency parameters of the agricultural working machine are optimized via interactive, natural-language communication between the operator of the agricultural working machine and the driver assistance system.

Driver assistance system for agricultural working machines

A display unit is provided in an agricultural working vehicle to display at least one operating parameter of the working vehicle, so that it is possible to change the operating parameter as a function of one or more setting parameters of the working vehicle. The display unit is designed to display a change in the operating parameter resulting from a change made to at least one of the setting parameters.

Agricultural working vehicle and display unit therefor

A communication network contains several nodes, which are equipped with transmitter/receiver units for wireless communication, including nodes referred to as mobile nodes that are installed on mobile machines. So that decentralized decisions can be made regarding the use of the mobile machines at the sites where the machines are located, a memory for storing the operating parameter profiles of several of the mobile machines is assigned to each node; every node is designed to transmit profiles stored in its assigned memory via its transmitter/receiver unit, and to update the profile of a particular mobile machine stored in its assigned memory based on a profile of this mobile machine that is received from another node.

Communication network and operating method for agricultural working machines

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/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication between the mobile and/or stationary devices, and this accidental communication changes to a targeted communication.

Communication system and method for mobile and stationary devices

A device for coordinating a machine fleet includes a memory for storing a large number of data records, an interface for communicating with several users who are capable of making changes to the data records, in the case of which each data record represents a given portion of the working capacity of a machine in the machine fleet, and the changes relate to the assignment of the portion of the working capacity represented by the data record to the users making the change, and an administration unit designed to allow a change to be made to a data record by a user requesting the change if the data record is not assigned to any other user and an urgency of the change indicated by the requesting user reaches a threshold specified for the particular portion.

Device and method for coordinating a machine fleet

The process and device for controlling at least one operating condition parameter () of working parts () of a combine harvester () has at least one sensing device () for monitoring a crop tailings stream () and for generating a grain tailings signal (X) and a tailings flow rate signal (Y) for control of the operating condition parameters (), such as blower speed, upper sieve mesh, lower sieve mesh, so that changes in the crop harvesting conditions can be reacted to rapidly and efficiently. The device includes an evaluating and display unit (), which includes a controller () for automatically controlling operating condition parameters or for displaying control information produced by control algorithms (to), so that the operating condition parameters can be optimized according to the grain tailings signal (X) and tailings flow rate signal (Y).

Process and device for controlling working parts of a combine harvester

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 first control process is determined with consideration for a current operating mode of a second control process, and corresponding control unit and a harvesting machine with a control unit of this type are provided.

Method for controlling a harvesting 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 into sub-program maps, and the task of optimizing the sub-program maps being transmitted to individual agricultural working machines; in this manner, by dividing up the work to be carried out, the time required to find the optimum operating parameters of an agricultural working machine can be reduced considerably.

Method and device for optimizing operating parameters of an agricultural working machine

A method of operating working machines with a changeable nominal value of at least one specific parameter of a working machine has the steps of forming by the changed nominal value an actual value of the specific parameter of the corresponding working machine; and deriving from the change of the respective actual value of a plurality of working machines a pronounced user behavior; and a device provided for performing the method.

Method of and device for operating working machines

A method for operation of a working machine with at least one adjustable operating parameter of at least one working unit of the working machine, includes associating the working machine with a control generator coupled to a control editor for changing the at least one operating parameter; providing controls in the control generator, and changing the controls by the control editor.

Method of and apparatus for operating working machines

A circuit arrangement consisting of a computer processor from which a connecting bus extends and a circuit board is connected to a bus which carries switching amplifiers the outputs of which are connected via peripheral connector contacts to load circuits is shown. Threshold discriminator circuits and analog signal amplifiers are connected to the connector contacts, and the bus output signals are fed via the connecting bus the processor. The working of the load circuits and further attached signals are evaluated by the processor.

Circuit arrangement for computer input/output

A positional regulation of a mowing mechanism is effected in terms of height as a function of a ground pressure signal (SB) and in terms of swiveling in the transverse direction as a function of lateral ground clearance signals (SL, SR), the adjusting signals being carried to hydraulic valves (VT, VH; VL, VR). The goal is to increase the accuracy and freedom from fluctuation in the course of the mowing mechanism cutting height. The ground clearance signals (SL, SR) are used in proportion with the ground pressure signal (SB) for vertical position regulation. A linkage of these signals (SL, SR, SB) with further transducer signals and a method for automatic adaptation of the regulating characteristic by varying the hystereses and idle times of the regulators (V1, V1) is disclosed. The regulating apparatus is used in harvesting and threshing combines when low-height crops are to be mowed and when the ground is bumpy and soft.

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