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20120004812 | DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL WORKING MACHINE - A driver assistance system for agricultural working machines, such as a combine harvester having a large number of working mechanisms, is formed by at least one data processing and control unit, and at least one display unit, and the data processing and control unit processes information generated by sensor systems internal to the machine, information that can be stored in the data processing and control unit, and/or external information, and the driver assistance system has selectable process implementation strategies, and the selection criterium of a process implementation strategy are the quality required for a certain intended use of the crop and/or optimization criteria of the working mechanisms. | 01-05-2012 |
20120004813 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING AT LEAST ONE WORKING UNIT OF A SELF-PROPELLED HARVESTING MACHINE - A method for automatic adjustment of at least one of several working units of a self-propelled harvesting machine involved in a harvesting process, includes the steps of initially modeling the harvesting process by at least one program map, based on a data base characteristic of a current harvesting process; determining an initial working point of the at least one of the working units on a basis of the initial modeling; adapting the at least one program map on a basis of data currently collected by measurements and which influence the harvesting process; determining a new working point of the at least one working unit depending on the adaptation of the program map; and iteratively approximating the new working point. | 01-05-2012 |
20120178509 | Combine harvester comprising a spreading device for spreading chopped crop, and method of operating same - A combine harvester has a spreading device for spreading chopped crop, a control device to which the spreading device is connected and which controls spreading properties of the spreading device, and a wind anemometer located on either side of the spreading device in a rear region of the combine harvester and producing a signal corresponding to a characteristic of wind. | 07-12-2012 |
20120322521 | Combine harvester comprising an axial separating device and method for operating a combine harvester - A combine harvester operates with an axial separating device for separating a crop flow picked up by the combine harvester into a plurality of partial flows. A partial flow composed of grain and non-grain components is fed by a separation surface of the axial separating device to a cleaning unit disposed downstream. The axial separating device is configured to manipulate a local concentration gradient of the partial flow that is output by the axial separating device caused by a tilt of the combine harvester. The extent of the manipulation is controlled individually depending on the tilt of the combine harvester. | 12-20-2012 |
20140019017 | Agricultural working machine having at least one control unit - An agricultural working machine has a one control/regulating unit designed to adjust and monitor working parameters, quality parameters or both of the agricultural working machine that influence a harvesting process. The adjusting and monitoring are carried out in an automatable manner by the control/regulating unit using stored families of characteristics. The agricultural working machine also has at least one display device for depicting setpoint values and actual values of the working parameters, quality parameters or both. The control/regulating unit actuates defined measurement points in the stored families of characteristics and the specifically actuated measurement points are located in the boundary regions of the family of characteristics or outside the active working region of the particular family of characteristics. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019018 | Driver assistance system for agricultural working machine - A driver assistance system for an agricultural working machine includes at least one control/regulating unit designed to adjust and monitor working parameters, quality parameters or both, of the agricultural working machine in an automatable manner based on use of a family of characteristics stored in the control/regulating unit. A selectable process implementation strategy is specified in order to automatically monitor or adjust at least one working parameter or quality parameter or both of the agricultural working machine. The driver assistance system suggests that the process implementation strategy be changed at least when the specified setpoint value of one or more of the quality parameters cannot be reached within the preselected process implementation strategy. | 01-16-2014 |
20140088840 | Method for operating an agricultural working machine - A method for operating an agricultural working machine is configured with working assemblies and a control/regulating unit having a display unit and at least one interface for communication in order to control and/or regulate the working assemblies. In the method, an emotional state of an operator is recognized during an interaction with the working machine via the at least one interface and the operating mode of the | 03-27-2014 |
20140129048 | Assistance system for optimizing vehicle operation - An assistance system that optimizes the operation of a self-propelled agricultural working machine includes a device for determining working and efficiency parameters of the machine includes an arithmetic logic unit and a display unit. The arithmetic logic unit processes information generated by machine-internal sensor systems, external information and information stored in the arithmetic logic unit. One or more mathematical models describing the working process are stored in the arithmetic logic unit and derive efficiency parameters of the working machine from the available working parameters and, with consideration for monetary interrelationships, determine the opportunity costs of the working process and visualize the opportunity costs in the display unit. | 05-08-2014 |
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20100070395 | ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FOR PAYROLL PROCESSING APPLICATION SOFTWARE - Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for implementing a software architecture design for a software application implementing payroll processing. The application is structured as multiple process components interacting with each other through service interfaces, and multiple service operations, each being implemented for a respective process component. The process components include a Payroll Processing process component, an Employee Payroll Administration process component, an Accounting process component, and a Payroll Processing at Provider process component. | 03-18-2010 |
20100114818 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AND MODIFYING TIME DEPENDENT DATA STRUCTURES - A system, method, and computer-readable medium having instructions thereon for executing a method are provided for effecting modification of, e.g., updating, a target application or document. An embodiment of the present invention provides for the updating of a target application or document having specific time split operations in, for example, an enterprise resources planning system (ERP). | 05-06-2010 |
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20090066639 | VISUAL RESPONSES TO A PHYSICAL INPUT IN A MEDIA APPLICATION - A media application for providing outputs (e.g., audio outputs) in response to inputs received from an input device is provided. The media application may connect input mechanisms of an input device with parameters of channel strips (e.g., which may define output sounds) using an intermediate screen object. The media application may first assign an input mechanism to a screen object, and separately map a screen object to a channel strip parameter. The media application may map a screen object to several channel strips simultaneously such that, based on the value of the screen object, the volume of each of the several channel strips changes. The media application may provide a graphical representation of available channel strips using layers. As the media application accesses a channel strip, the appearance of the portion of the layer associated with the channel strip may change. The media application may also allow the patches, which may include several channel strips, to survive after a new patch is selected instead. | 03-12-2009 |
20110016397 | POSITIONING A VIRTUAL SOUND CAPTURING DEVICE IN A THREE DIMENSIONAL INTERFACE - A method, system, and computer-readable product for positioning a virtual sound capturing device in a graphical user interface (GUI) are disclosed. The method includes displaying a virtual sound capturing device in relation to a virtual sound producing device in a three dimensional interface and in a two dimensional graphical map. Additionally, the method includes adjusting the display of the virtual sound capturing device in relation to the virtual sound producing device in both the three dimensional interface and the two dimensional graphical map in response to commands received from an input device. | 01-20-2011 |
20130097511 | Positioning a Virtual Sound Capturing Device in a Three Dimensional Interface - A method, system, and computer-readable product for positioning a virtual sound capturing device in a graphical user interface (GUI) are disclosed. The method includes displaying a virtual sound capturing device in relation to a virtual sound producing device in a three dimensional interface and in a two dimensional graphical map. Additionally, the method includes adjusting the display of the virtual sound capturing device in relation to the virtual sound producing device in both the three dimensional interface and the two dimensional graphical map in response to commands received from an input device. | 04-18-2013 |
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20130013557 | METHOD OF UPDATING A DATABASE OF A NAVIGATION DEVICE AND NAVIGATION DEVICE - To update a database of a navigation device which stores at least a base version of a digital map, versions of the digital map which are available locally in the database or remotely from the navigation device are identified. To execute the navigation task, a version of the digital map is selected for execution of the navigation task. Data from a sub-set of storage blocks in which the selected version is stored is required to execute the navigation task. Depending on whether all storage blocks of the sub-set are already stored locally in the database, data stored in storage blocks of the sub-set which are not yet stored locally in the database are downloaded via a wireless interface. The downloaded data are stored in the database without modifying the base version of the digital map. | 01-10-2013 |
20130124544 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH PRE-PARSED AND UNPARSED NAVIGATION DATA - A navigation system includes a database that stores navigation data used for providing the navigation information to the user, the navigation data being stored in data sets. An application is configured to process the navigation data in order to generate the navigation information. A parsing unit parses the data sets in such a way that a data structure of the data sets is identified and that the data sets can be executed by the application, wherein the navigation data contain first data sets which have been parsed by the parsing unit and which are stored in the database as pre-parsed data sets, each of the first data sets containing an indication that the data set is a pre-parsed data set, the navigation data further containing second data sets which have not been parsed and which are stored in the database as unparsed data sets. Each of the second data sets contains an indication that the data set is an unparsed data set. A control unit selects a data set needed to generate the navigation information and detects the indication of the data set, wherein the control unit, based on the indication of the data set, is configured to direct the selected data set to the parsing unit when identifying the selected data set as a second data set, or to a working memory of the navigation system from where the application accesses the selected data set, when identifying the selected data set as a second data set. | 05-16-2013 |
20140108360 | COMPRESSED NAVIGATION MAP DATA - A method for generating a compressed navigation map database from uncompressed navigation map data, wherein the uncompressed navigation map data contains different building blocks of navigation data, each building block addressing a functional aspect of the navigation data, each block containing strings of data. The method includes determining, for each block of the uncompressed navigation map data, most frequent substrings of the block; storing, for each block, the determined most frequent substrings of the block in a seed block; replacing, for each block, in the strings the determined most frequent substrings stored in the seed block by a reference to the seed block thereby generating a compressed block for each block; and storing, for each block, the compressed block and the seed block in order to generate the compressed navigation map database. | 04-17-2014 |
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20100208586 | CONTROL NODE, A NETWORK OF CONTROL NODES AND A NETWORK CONFIGURATOR - A control node for a network of control nodes includes a transmitter module configured to manage the data to be sent in an output process image, to convert the output process image into a data packet and to output the data packet onto the network at a predetermined point in time. The control node further includes a receiver module configured to log on to the data packets of one or of a plurality of transmitter modules of further control nodes and to convert a received data packet into an input process image. The data transmission between the control nodes in the network takes place in the form of data packets. | 08-19-2010 |
20100211201 | CONTROL NODE AND CONTROL SYSTEM - A control node has a sequence table and subscribers, with the sequence table having data records each having an identification for an action of a manufacturing sequence associated with the control node, an identification for a subscriber carrying out the action and an identification of a parameter set associated with the action, and wherein each subscriber has a sequence interpreter which is designed to read and to interpret the sequence table, and to initiate the actions associated with the subscriber. | 08-19-2010 |
20100217894 | PROGRAMMING DEVICE FOR A NETWORK OF CONTROL NODES AND SYSTEM WITH SUCH A PROGRAMMING DEVICE - A programming device for a network of control nodes includes a recording module for determining the control nodes connected to the network and a system object module connected to the recording module. The system object module includes a system object model representing the control-node configuration of the network, the system object module being configured to define the communication relations between the determined control nodes on the basis of the system object model. The programming device further includes a configuration output module connected to the system object module for transmitting the communication relations between the control nodes in the network to the control nodes, the communication relations being determined by the system object module. | 08-26-2010 |
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20100077934 | PROJECTILE FASTENING BOLT FOR A SHELL WITH A SUBCALIBER PENETRATOR WITH A CONICAL TAILPIECE AND A SHELL - A shell with a subcaliber penetrator, which has a conical tailpiece, and with a basically disk-shaped propulsion element, wherein the conical tailpiece has a frustum-shaped recess that is open towards the rear end. The propulsion element is joined with the penetrator, preferably by a screw connection (projectile fastening bolt. To this end, a bolt element joins the propulsion element and the penetrator in the area of the tailpiece and has a borehole that is open at the rear end, into which propellant charge gases flow when the shell is fired and cause rending of the bolt element and thus separation of the propulsion element from the penetrator. | 04-01-2010 |
20110000391 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SHELL AND A SHELL WITH A SABOT PROJECTILE PRODUCED BY THIS METHOD - A method for producing a shell and a shell produced by this method, wherein the shell has a projectile, a combustible propellant charge casing, and a casing cover that joins the propellant charge casing with the projectile, such that the projectile has a sealing ring adjacent to the casing cover. To realize cost-effective assembly of a shell of this type, the casing cover is produced as an injection molded part made of an elastic plastic, such that the front end region of the casing cover facing the projectile forms the sealing ring. | 01-06-2011 |
20110120336 | SABOT PROJECTILE - A sabot projectile with a subcaliber penetrator and a sabot, which has a propulsion element that acts on the rear end of the penetrator, a segmented, essentially cylindrical guide cage, which is connected to the front end of the propulsion element, and a segmented, disk-shaped metal guide element that extends radially inward in the front area of the guide cage and holds the penetrator. The disk-shaped guide element has a slightly convex contour in the direction of flight of the projectile and the material and the wall thickness of the guide element are chosen in such a way that convex area of the guide element is pushed back slightly when the sabot projectile is fired, so that the outer marginal area of the guide element rests against the inside wall of the gun barrel from which the sabot projectile is fired, and/or the inner marginal area of the guide element, which faces the penetrator, rests against the outer surface of the penetrator. | 05-26-2011 |
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20100212479 | METHOD FOR INSERTING PREDETERMINED BREAKING POINTS IN A RING-SHAPED HOLDING- AND SEALING BAND OF A SABOT CAGE PROJECTILE AND A WORK TOOL FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD - A method and work tool for inserting predetermined breaking points in a ring-shaped holding- and sealing band of a sabot cage projectile with an impact sabot cage are provided, wherein the band is arranged on a partial area of a receptacle device segmented through at least two longitudinal slits. The receptacle device connects the propelling element to the guiding cage of the impact sabot cage, and the guiding cage is segmented through at least two longitudinal slits. After mounting the band on the receptacle device, but before installation of the guiding cage in the area of the holding- and sealing band covering the longitudinal slits of the receptacle device, notch-shaped predetermined breaking points are inserted in the holding- and sealing band from inside of the band with the aid of a work tool, wherein longitudinal slits of the receptacle device are used for lateral guiding of the work tool. | 08-26-2010 |
20110290143 | CARTRIDGE - The invention relates to a cartridge having a propellant charge casing at least partially filled with a propellant charge powder, and a projectile part connected on a front of the propellant charge casing, wherein the propellant charge casing comprises a casing cover, a casing sheath and a casing base, and the casing sheath is connected to the projectile part via the casing cover and to the casing base via a spring steel sheet. In order to achieve different amounts of propellant charge powder filled into the same propellant charge casing without igniting the propellant charge at undesirable blast waves, a sack-shaped container that is completely filled with the respective amount of propellant charge powder is disposed inside the propellant charge casing so that the container, and thus also the propellant charge powder, extends in the direction of the central longitudinal axis of the cartridge. | 12-01-2011 |
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20100139518 | METHOD FOR PRODUTION OF A PROJECTILE ,AS WELL AS A PROJECTILE - The invention relates to a projectile ( | 06-10-2010 |
20100212479 | METHOD FOR INSERTING PREDETERMINED BREAKING POINTS IN A RING-SHAPED HOLDING- AND SEALING BAND OF A SABOT CAGE PROJECTILE AND A WORK TOOL FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD - A method and work tool for inserting predetermined breaking points in a ring-shaped holding- and sealing band of a sabot cage projectile with an impact sabot cage are provided, wherein the band is arranged on a partial area of a receptacle device segmented through at least two longitudinal slits. The receptacle device connects the propelling element to the guiding cage of the impact sabot cage, and the guiding cage is segmented through at least two longitudinal slits. After mounting the band on the receptacle device, but before installation of the guiding cage in the area of the holding- and sealing band covering the longitudinal slits of the receptacle device, notch-shaped predetermined breaking points are inserted in the holding- and sealing band from inside of the band with the aid of a work tool, wherein longitudinal slits of the receptacle device are used for lateral guiding of the work tool. | 08-26-2010 |
20100236441 | CARTRIDGE - A cartridge ( | 09-23-2010 |
20100294160 | PROJECTILE - A projectile ( | 11-25-2010 |
20110023743 | PROJECTILE - The invention relates to a projectile ( | 02-03-2011 |
20110197780 | PROJECTILE HAVING A GUIDE SABOT AND PUSHER PLATE WITH AN ACCELERATION-OPTIMIZED OPENING - The invention relates to a subcaliber projectile, particularly for a dart projectile, having a resistance-stabilizing, conically designed guide mechanism having a frustum-shaped recess, wherein a guide cage has a substantially hollow cylindrical design in which a propulsion element is integrated therein on a rear side. To allow the propulsion element to be produced in a simple fashion and the guide cage to be lighter weight than comparable known drive cages, the propulsion element is designed substantially only as a disk-shaped metal plate extending transverse to the longitudinal axis of the guide cage, wherein the drive element is mounted on an edge in an annular groove-shaped recess of the inner wall of the guide cage, wherein the disk-shaped metal plate comprises a central through hole, the diameter of which is as large as possible, but smaller than the maximum diameter of the frustum-shaped recess of the guide mechanism. | 08-18-2011 |
20120000390 | DISCARDING SABOT FOR GUIDE AND METHOD FOR ATTACHMENT OF SUCH SABOTS - To maintain predetermined tolerance conditions for the front guide region ( | 01-05-2012 |