JOSEPH VOGELE AG Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140037407 | DEVICE FOR TREATMENT OF BULK MATERIAL, A METHOD AS WELL AS A BEAM CONSTRUCTION INTENDED FOR SAID TREATMENT - The present invention relates to a device for the treatment of bulk material, comprising a platform | 02-06-2014 |
20140034453 | DEVICE FOR TREATMENT OF BULK MATERIAL, A METHOD AS WELL AS A BEAM CONSTRUCTION INTENDED FOR SAID TREATMENT - The present invention relates to a device for the treatment of bulk material, comprising a platform | 02-06-2014 |
20130322964 | ROAD FINISHING MACHINE AND METHOD FOR LAYING MIXED MATERIAL WITH A ROAD FINISHING MACHINE - In a road finishing machine comprising at least one screed, a machine control, and a ventilation system including a fan, the fan can be switched on or off via the machine control automatically independent of the operator and exclusively depending on demand. According to the invention, before or during the laying operation, a defined demand for the operation of the ventilation system is determined, and during or for the laying operation, the ventilation system is operated independent of the operator and automatically, and optionally power-controlled, upon determination of the defined demand. | 12-05-2013 |
20130220723 | BUILDING MACHINE COMPRISING A PRESENCE DETECTION SYSTEM - A building machine, especially a road finishing machine, comprising a presence detection system. The presence detection system comprises a sensor which is integrated in the control panel of the building machine. By means of the sensor a distance measurement can be carried out, which determines whether the operator is properly seated on the driver's seat of the building machine or whether he stands properly at the standing work place. In order to determine the presence a tolerance range may be specified, which allows a slight movement of the operator on the driver's seat. If the operator approaches the limits of the tolerance range he is asked in time by warning signals to be seated again properly on the driver's seat or adopt a proper position at the standing work place. If the sensor detects no operator on the driver's seat or at the standing work place all of the functions of the building machine are stopped in order to make sure that the work site is safe. | 08-29-2013 |
20130195550 | ROAD FINISHING MACHINE WITH CONTROLLABLE CONVEYOR DEVICES - The invention relates to a road finishing machine with a controllable longitudinal conveyor device and a transverse conveyor device for mixed laying material disposed in the rear in the direction of motion. The road finishing machine furthermore comprises a control unit for adjusting a delivery rate of the longitudinal conveyor device and/or the transverse conveyor device. The control unit is connected with a sensory mechanism for determining a mixed laying material quantity or rate and adjusts the delivery rate in response to a signal from the sensory mechanism representing the mixed laying material quantity or rate. The control unit can be pilot controlled in response to laying parameters by a pilot control unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130142572 | ROAD FINISHING MACHINE - In a road finishing machine with a screed having a hydraulically movable extendable screed part, an electronic control device and a control panel linked to the control device and including an actuation instrument manually movable by the operator for adjusting the value of a control current for a proportional magnet of at least one proportional control valve and which can adjust the speed of a hydraulic movement actuator of the extendable screed part, a maximum value of kinetic resistance noticeable by the operator can be generated within the movement path of the movement actuator for adjusting either a predetermined movement speed or a transition between two different movement speeds of the movement actuator of the extendable screed part. | 06-06-2013 |
20130121765 | CHARGING VEHICLE - The invention relates to a charging vehicle ( | 05-16-2013 |
20130092512 | BELT CONVEYOR DEVICE - A belt conveyor for a road-finishing machine or a charger. The belt conveyor includes a conveyor belt in which a displaceably mounted support element abuts the conveyor belt, and a first and a second piston cylinder unit operate to displace the support element. The first and the second hydraulic piston cylinder units can be pressurised independently of each other in order to move the support element into a desired inclined position. If the conveyor belt of the belt conveyor runs laterally away from the support element, the out-of-true running of the conveyor belt can be counteracted by an inclined position of the support element which moves the conveyor belt back into its original position. | 04-18-2013 |
20130089375 | CONSTRUCTION MACHINE WITH AUTOMATIC FAN ROTATIONAL SPEED REGULATION - The present invention relates to a construction machine with automatic fan rotational speed regulation. The construction machine includes at least one electric motor that is connected functionally to a respective fan and a control unit formed for the purpose of registering operation-specific data. The control unit is configured for the purpose of regulating, depending on the operation-specific data, an electric output of the respective electric motor in order to adjust a desired target fan rotational speed on the fan. | 04-11-2013 |
20130087437 | SLEWING BELT MOUNTING - The invention relates to a conveyor belt mounting for a charger that is used in road building, in order to supply a road-finishing machine with paving material. Using the slewing belt mounting, it is possible to achieve different discharge heights for the paving material. The slewing belt mounting comprises a cantilever arm, which is movably mounted on the frame of the charger, a pivot arm, which is pivotally connected to the cantilever arm, and a conveyor belt, which is connected to the pivot arm. The slewing belt mounting is characterized in that it comprises at least one lifting element, such as a hydraulic cylinder, cable winch, toothed rack, gear mechanism or the like, which is fastened by a first end to the frame and by a second end to the cantilever arm, wherein the cantilever arm is vertically adjustable by means of the lifting element. | 04-11-2013 |
20130087434 | CONVEYOR DEVICE - The invention relates to a conveyor device ( | 04-11-2013 |
20130082161 | EXTERNAL CONTROL STAND FOR A CONSTRUCTION MACHINE - An external control stand for a self-propelled construction machine. The construction machine has a working component that can be operated from the external control stand. The invention includes a lighting device for illuminating a ground section on the external control stand, as seen in the direction of travel, in front of, behind and/or below the external control stand. | 04-04-2013 |
20130062164 | MATERIAL CONVEYOR SYSTEM FOR A ROAD PAVER AND FEEDER - The invention relates to a material conveyor system ( | 03-14-2013 |
20130020860 | TRACKLAYING GEAR - In a tracklaying gear of a road finishing machine or a feeder with a drive chain wheel comprising circumferential teeth and being rotatably driven about an axis, and at least one idler wheel freely rotating about an axis inside a caterpillar track damping layers having damping material and exclusively radial sliding guides are integrated in the drive chain wheel and/or the idler wheel between the axis and the caterpillar track. | 01-24-2013 |
20120321386 | ROAD PAVER WITH LAYER THICKNESS MEASURING DEVICE - Road paver with a towing machine and a movable screed and with a measuring device that is provided for determining a layer thickness of a road pavement that has been newly laid by the screed. The measuring device is formed to determine the layer thickness at an intended location, seen relative to a direction of travel, behind a rear edge of the screed, whereby the measuring device is provided on the road paver such that the layer thickness can be determined independently of a geometric shape and/or a movement of the screed. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321385 | ROAD PAVER WITH LAYER THICKNESS MEASURING DEVICE - A road paver with a layer thickness measuring device which comprises a plurality of sensors in order to measure a distance to the subgrade or to the road pavement. The layer thickness measuring device is mounted rotatably on the road paver or on its screed, whereby the layer thickness measuring device has an equilibrium position at a stipulated angle to the horizontal that it retains or to which it returns even if the inclination of the road paver or of the screed to the horizontal changes. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321384 | ROAD PAVER WITH LAYER THICKNESS MEASURING DEVICE - A road paver with a movable screed and with a layer thickness measuring device, which includes at least two sensors. The sensors are formed to carry out a distance measurement to the paving plane at intervals to determine a distance between the sensor and a point on the surface of the plane, said point being registered by the sensor. One of the two sensors defines a coordinate system. The layer thickness measuring device is formed to add as vectors the distance to the plane measured by the sensor that defines the coordinate system and a movement, relative to the plane and resulting from the driving of the road paver, of the coordinate system that is defined by the one sensor. In this way, a first vector can be determined which, together with a second vector, is used by the measuring device for determining the layer thickness of the laying material. | 12-20-2012 |
20120305232 | CONSTRUCTION MACHINE WITH AUTOMATIC FAN ROTATIONAL SPEED REGULATION - The present invention describes a construction machine with a drive unit and with a cooling system that comprises a fan. The fan is connected to the drive unit by means of a controllable viscous coupling, whereby the viscous coupling can be adjusted in such a way that a required fan rotational speed is set on the output side. The invention furthermore describes a method for the automatic fan rotational speed regulation for a cooling system in a construction machine. | 12-06-2012 |
20120299270 | PUSHING DEVICE - A pushing device that can be attached to a road paver or feeder vehicle. The pushing device is attachable to a chassis component of the road paver or the feeder vehicle and comprises a pushing unit that is attached in a movable manner to the chassis component by means of at least a spring-absorber unit. The pushing unit can be displaced relative to the chassis component in a first direction and a second direction, whereby the spring-absorber unit has a greater spring rate during a movement of the pushing unit in the first direction than in the second direction. | 11-29-2012 |
20120265371 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING CONSTRUCTION SITE VEHICLES - A system for controlling construction site vehicles has a plurality of construction site vehicles and a control room. Data can be transmitted on communication channels between the control room and the construction site vehicles. In the control room, at least one digital map is stored in which at least one additional piece of information is stored for individual road sections, in addition to the route of the respective road section. A navigation module is provided and designed to generate, with reference to the at least one digital map, navigation recommendations for the construction site vehicles. | 10-18-2012 |
20120263532 | METHOD AND ROAD PAVER FOR LAYING DOWN A PAVEMENT - Method for laying down a pavement with a road paver, in which machine parameters are coordinated at least with paving requirements of the pavement by means of a controller and in which at least one machine parameter set is created and stored in advance for a paving requirement determined before the paving, the parameter set allowing a high level of machine efficiency and pavement quality to be expected and/or has already produced the same for an at least similar earlier paving requirement of an already laid down pavement, and the pavement on the basis of the parameter set created in advance. The road paver has a controller with an on-board computer connected to a sensor system and an actuating system, and includes memories and a retrieval and/or comparison section for triggering the actuating system for implementing the machine parameters of the parameter set created in advance. | 10-18-2012 |
20120263531 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LAYING DOWN AND COMPACTING AN ASPHALT LAYER - In a system for laying down an asphalt layer made of asphalt material, and having a road paver having a screed with compacting tools, a compacting device and a mixer, an electronic material density module is provided in or for the road paver. The electronic material density module obtains data during the laying process regarding at least the actual degree of compaction of the asphalt layer produced in the area of at least one compacting tool and evaluates and/or documents these data at least for operational optimisation and/or operational monitoring of the road paver and/or compacting device and/or mixer. The data obtained is communicated to the compacting device that produces the final degree of compaction of the asphalt layer based on the data and on the actual degree of compaction determined at the screed. | 10-18-2012 |
20120263530 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLYING A ROAD SURFACE - A method and a system for applying a road surface using a mixing plant for producing laying material, a road finishing machine processing the laying material to a road surface, and a supply chain transporting the laying material from the mixing plant to the road finishing machine. Request commands are transmitted from the road finishing machine to the mixing plant and/or to the supply chain, and, depending on these request commands, the production rate of the laying material in the mixing plant, the temperature of the laying material produced in the mixing plant, and/or the mass flow of laying material supplied to the road finishing machine per time unit by means of the supply chain are adjusted. | 10-18-2012 |
20120213585 | ROAD MAKING MACHINE WITH A MATERIAL DEFLECTOR - The invention relates to a road making machine with a running gear and at least one material deflector which is arranged in front of the running gear in the driving direction and which can be pivoted up and lowered. The road making machine includes a control system by means of which an operator can choose at least between a laying operating mode and a transport operating mode. The control system is adapted to automatically completely pivot the material deflector up in the transport operating mode, and to let the operator adjust the pivot position of the material deflector manually in the laying operating mode. | 08-23-2012 |
20120186894 | EXHAUST GAS SYSTEM FOR A BUILDING MACHINE - The invention relates to an exhaust gas system for a building machine, specifically for a road finishing machine or a feeder, comprising an engine compartment with an engine hood, and an exhaust gas pipe which carries off combustion gases from the engine, wherein the exhaust gas pipe is mounted in the engine compartment and ends underneath the engine hood. | 07-26-2012 |
20120062025 | TRACKLAYING GEAR - In a tracklaying gear with a frame having an idler wheel linear guide in which at least one guide piece holding the idler wheel axle is movable, and on which a tensioning means of a tensioning device supported in the frame can act in the guidance direction, at least one mechanically guided and centered elastomer spring body is installed to bulge under axial compression, such that the spring body can be readjusted, the elastomer spring body consisting of an elastomer material largely incompressible as a spring. | 03-15-2012 |
20120033065 | SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR A CONSTRUCTION MACHINE - The invention relates to a sensor arrangement for a construction machine with a sensor which is set up for gathering measurement data from a sampling region or from a sampling point. The invention is characterised in that an illumination device for illuminating the sampling region or the sampling point is integrated into the sensor arrangement. | 02-09-2012 |
20120031724 | ROAD FINISHING MACHINE AND METHOD OF OPERATING A ROAD FINISHING MACHINE - In a road finishing machine with a primary power plant and a power transfer to a hydraulic pump and/or a generator for supplying power to hydraulically or electrically operated functional components, the power transfer comprises at least one clutch that can be optionally engaged and disengaged, and a clutch control device is provided by means of which, depending on at least the operator guidance and/or a detected clutch loading situation, a disengagement delay (Δt) automatically overriding the operator guidance can be set, and/or a clutch shifting number restriction can be set by means of a detection interval (dt) moving along in time. The clutch control device actually engages, within the frame of the respective overriding control strategy, the clutch only after the disengagement delay (Δt) has lapsed, if no operation command to the contrary is present, and/or keeps the clutch first engaged, although an operation command to the contrary is present. | 02-09-2012 |
20120012415 | BUILDING MACHINE COMPRISING A PRESENCE DETECTION SYSTEM - A building machine, especially a road finishing machine, comprising a presence detection system. The presence detection system comprises a sensor which is integrated in the control panel of the building machine. By means of the sensor a distance measurement can be carried out, which determines whether the operator is properly seated on the driver's seat of the building machine or whether he stands properly at the standing work place. In order to determine the presence a tolerance range may be specified, which allows a slight movement of the operator on the driver's seat. If the operator approaches the limits of the tolerance range he is asked in time by warning signals to be seated again properly on the driver's seat or adopt a proper position at the standing work place. If the sensor detects no operator on the driver's seat or at the standing work place all of the functions of the building machine are stopped in order to make sure that the work site is safe. | 01-19-2012 |
20110305509 | SCREED ARRANGEMENT FOR A ROAD FINISHER - The invention relates to a screed arrangement for a road finisher with a basic screed and two extending screeds arranged in front of the basic screed in the laying direction of travel of the road finisher and movable transversely to the laying direction of travel relative to the basic screed. A deflection member is fitted to the basic screed and/or to at least one of the extending screeds and is movable relative to it. | 12-15-2011 |
20110236131 | ROAD CONSTRUCTION MACHINE PARTICULARLY A ROAD FINISHER OR ROAD FINISHER FEEDER - A road construction machine, particularly a road finisher or a feeder for a road finisher, with a primary drive unit including at least one combustion engine driving a three-phase generator, and further including at least one connection means for at least one conventional alternating current standard consumer, at least one stabilized voltage supply unit is connected between the connection means and the three-phase generator, wherein the voltage supply unit provides standard mains voltage with a permanently stable frequency at the connection means independent of the speed of the combustion engine driving the three-phase generator. | 09-29-2011 |
20110229266 | METHOD AND ROAD FINISHER FOR LAYING A COMPACTED FINISHING LAYER - A method of laying a finishing layer with a road finisher F having a screed B, whereby the screed, equipped with a tamper device T and a smoothing plate, at least compacts and superficially smoothes the finishing layer, and the stroke and/or the frequency of the tamper device T are remotely varied for laying a finishing layer with a paving thickness and/or laying rate V which vary over the pave width and transversely to the working direction R within the pave width. A road finisher having a screed suitable for implementing the method set forth above wherein the road finisher or screed has an adjustment device for the remotely actuated local variation of at least the stroke of the tamper device within the pave width. | 09-22-2011 |
20110229264 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF APPLYING A ROAD SURFACE - A system for applying a road surface includes a plurality of operational components each with one or a plurality of adjustment parameters and an open loop control unit from which the adjustment parameters are communicated to the operational components. The system has a closed-loop control unit for determining the optimum adjustment parameters for obtaining at least one specified target value taking into account measurement quantities, for producing a command data set representing a plurality of optimum adjustment parameters and for communicating this command data set to the open loop control unit. The invention also relates to a method for controlling a system for the application of a road surface, in particular a road finisher. | 09-22-2011 |
20110229263 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE PROCESS WHEN PRODUCING A PAVING MAT AND ROAD FINISHER - A method for controlling the process laying a layer in a selectable paving thickness with a road finisher in which the laying process is automatically controlled in that a target value for the paving thickness is entered into an automatic closed-loop control system and communicates the actuating signals to such members and the signals. A road finisher has a computerized, either fully automatic or operator aided closed-loop control system for the direct control of the laying process with control of the paving thickness to a predetermined target value and for the optimization of the operating point of the pre-compaction system, which is connected to sensors at least for the acquisition of the setting angle of the screed, of the paving thickness and of the laying rate. | 09-22-2011 |
20110126533 | METHOD FOR CLOSED-LOOP POWER CONTROL OF A ROAD FINISHING MACHINE OR FEEDER AND A ROAD FINISHING MACHINE OR FEEDER COMPRISING THE SAME - In the hydrostatic working operation of a road finishing machine or a feeder which comprises a primary power plant with an internal combustion engine (M) and several hydraulic variable displacement pumps, which are hydraulically connected to hydraulic motors of working components, and which possesses a computerized control device, the internal combustion engine is operated within its engine-specific characteristic map in response to the load condition by dynamic speed adaptation in a characteristic zone with optimal consumption, and the displacements (V | 06-02-2011 |
20110123270 | TAMPER OF A SCREED OF A ROAD FINISHING MACHINE - In a tamper of a screed having an eccentric shaft comprising an eccentric section and an eccentric bushing arranged thereon which is rotatably mounted in a connecting rod driving a tamper bar, the stroke of the tamper bar is adjustable by a relative rotation between the eccentric shaft and the eccentric bushing, and a tappet and a preselection area with two tappet stop positions defining two different tamper bar strokes are functionally provided between the eccentric shaft and the eccentric bushing, so that the tappet can be adjusted without tools to each tappet stop position by a reversal of the direction of rotation of the eccentric shaft to switch between the two strokes. | 05-26-2011 |
20110123267 | METHOD FOR LAYING DOWN A PAVEMENT, A SCREED AND A ROAD PAVER - In a method for laying down a pavement consisting of paving material with a screed of a road paver, in which a compaction unit, particularly a tamper, pre-compacts the paving material at cyclical work cycles with selectable stroke and selectable frequency while the pavement having a selectable pavement thickness) is in the process of being laid down at a selectable paving speed, at least the stroke is automatically adjustable in response to paving parameters, such as at least the paving speed and/or the pavement thickness, along a characteristic curve or in a characteristic map. In the screed the compaction unit comprises an adjusting mechanism which is operable during the ongoing paving work for adjusting the stroke of the compaction unit. | 05-26-2011 |
20110091278 | SCREED FOR ROAD FINISHING MACHINE - In a screed with a basic screed and at least one extendable screed movable relative to the basic screed with a hydraulic cylinder and an electro-hydraulic control comprising a magnet-actuated directional control valve for at least controlling the direction of the hydraulic cylinder, the directional control valve for changing the rate of motion of the hydraulic cylinder is guided by an operator or automatically and is a proportional directional control valve (W) with proportional-electric direct actuation or proportional-electric-hydraulic pilot control. The proportional directional control valve for the hydraulic cylinder is connected on the actuation side with an electro-hydraulic control of a hydraulic system of the road finishing machine. | 04-21-2011 |
20110024270 | BELT CONVEYOR DEVICE - In a belt conveyor device with a continuous conveyor belt which is replaceably carried in a conveying duct by inner drive and tail pulleys which are installed in a frame structure defining the conveying duct, at least the drive and the tail pulley can be moved to a replacement position by means of adjusting means integrated in the frame structure, in which position the respective pulley or at least one pulley end is placed outside the conveying duct for conveyor belt replacement, or parts of the frame structure that interfere with the mounting of the conveyor belt can be removed by folding them away, dismounting them, or the like. | 02-03-2011 |
20100329783 | ROAD FINISHER WITH AUTOMATIC ENGINE CONTROLLER - The invention relates to a self-propelling machine for processing bituminous or concrete pavement material, in particular a road finisher or a feeder. The machine comprises an internal combustion engine as a primary drive source, a controller for the engine, said controller receiving control signals, at least one additional drive unit for functional and operational components of the machine as well as at least one hydraulic circuit comprising a hydraulic medium reservoir. The invention is characterized in that the controller is configured for automatically causing starting and/or stopping of the engine in response to receipt of at least one specific control signal. | 12-30-2010 |
20100326067 | SELF-PROPELLED MACHINE - In a self-propelled machine F for processing paving material, the machine having a liquid cooled combustion engine M and at least one hydraulic circuit H containing hydraulic pumps | 12-30-2010 |