US Patent Issued to CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen on Sept. 30 for "Drive system for a self-propelling harvester" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,545, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (Harsewinkel, Germany).

"Drive system for a self-propelling harvester" was invented by Stefan Schiewer (Warendorf, Germany), Malte Lutkeschumer (Osnabruck, Germany), Maik Poppenborg (Marienfeld, Germany) and Mathias Graute (Munster, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system for self-propelling harvester is disclosed. The harvester includes a drive motor, a transfer case driven by the drive motor and having an output pulley arranged on a driveshaft of the transfer case and driving, using a main drive belt, at least one main pulley of a rotat...