# US 12,004,489 B2 · Fodder mixing wagon > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,004,489 B2 - Document ID: US12004489B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/096,848 - Filed: 2020-11-12 - Published: 2021-05-20 - Granted: 2024-06-11 - Earliest claimed: 2019-11-19 - Assignees: Trioliet B.V. - Applicants: Trioliet B.V. - Inventors: Robert Jan Liet - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12004489B2 ## CPC - A01K 5/001: {Fodder distributors with mixer or shredder (adaptations of cutting machine A01F29/00)} - A01K 5/004: {with mixing or shredding element rotating on vertical axis} - A23N 17/007: {for mixing feeding-stuff components} - B01F 33/5023: {the vehicle being a trailer which is hand moved or coupled to self-propelling vehicles} - B01F 35/2205: {Controlling the mixing process from a remote server, e.g. by sending commands using radio, telephone, internet, local network, GPS or other means} - B01F 2101/18: Mixing animal food ingredients - A01K: ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS - A23N: MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS (machines for cutting straw or fodder A01F29/00; disintegrating, e.g. shredding, B02C; severing, e.g. cutting, splitting, slicing B26B, B26D) - B01F: MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING (mixing paints B44D3/06) ## Abstract Fodder mixing wagon with a mixing container and at least one mixing member arranged rotatable therein for fodder components and a sensor system arranged to co-rotate on the mixing member for examining at least one of the fodder components and/or a fodder mixture formed therefrom. A data transmission system with a transmitter a receiver which are associated with one another in a co-rotating and not co-rotating arrangement for wireless data transmission to and/or from the sensor system; and/or an electrical generator for supplying power to the sensor system. The transmitter and receiver are arranged such that the wireless data transmission is within the mixing container; and the generator is arranged on the stator side to co-rotate with the mixing member and on the rotor side is coupled not to co-rotate. Data transmission is provided with a low transmission power. Inductive data and power transmission may be used. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A fodder mixing wagon comprising: a mixing container and at least one mixing member arranged rotatable therein for fodder components; at least one sensor system arranged to co-rotate on said mixing member for examining at least one of the fodder components and/or a fodder mixture formed therefrom; a power transmission system comprising at least one transmitter coil and at least one receiver coil for inductively resonant power transmission to said sensor system; and a data transmission system with at least one transmitter and at least one receiver which are associated with one another in a co-rotating and not co-rotating arrangement for wireless data transmission to and/or away from said sensor system, wherein said transmitter and receiver are arranged such that said wireless data transmission therebetween them takes place entirely within said mixing container. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A fodder mixing wagon according to claim 1, further comprising a power transmission system comprising slip rings for contacting electrical power transmission to said sensor system. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) A fodder mixing wagon according to claim 1, further comprising an electrical generator for supplying power to said sensor system, where said generator is arranged on a stator side to co-rotate with said mixing member and on a rotor side is coupled not to co-rotate. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) A fodder mixing wagon according to claim 1, where said transmitter and said receiver are configured for contactless bidirectional data transmission by an inductive coupling. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) A fodder mixing wagon according to claim 1, wherein said transmitter and said receiver are configured for contactless bidirectional data transmission by way of radio signals. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) A fodder mixing wagon according to claim 1, further comprising a control device with a CAN bus and at least one CAN interface for connecting said wireless data transmission system to said CAN bus. ### Claim 7 A fodder mixing wagon comprising: a mixing container and at least one mixing member arranged rotatable therein for fodder components; at least one sensor system arranged to co-rotate on said mixing member for examining at least one of the fodder components and/or a fodder mixture formed therefrom; a power transmission system comprising at least one transmitter coil and at least one receiver coil for inductively resonant power transmission to said sensor system; and a data transmission system with at least one transmitter and at least one receiver which are associated with one another in a co-rotating and not co-rotating arrangement for wireless data transmission to and/or away from said sensor system, wherein said transmitter and receiver are arranged such that said wireless data transmission therebetween them takes place predominantly within said mixing container, and where said data transmission system is configured such that said data transmission system uses said at least one transmitter coil and said at least one receiver coil of said power transmission system for at least unidirectional or bidirectional data transmission by modulating an alternating field generated by said transmitter coil. ### Claim 8 A fodder mixing wagon comprising: a mixing container and at least one mixing member arranged rotatable therein for fodder components; at least one sensor system arranged to co-rotate on said mixing member for examining at least one of the fodder components and/or a fodder mixture formed therefrom; and an electrical generator for supplying power to said sensor system, wherein said electric generator is arranged on a stator side to co-rotate with said mixing member and a rotor side is coupled not to co-rotate. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) A fodder mixing wagon according to claim 8, where said generator is a friction wheel dynamo that rolls along a not co-rotating part of said mixing container. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) A fodder mixing wagon according to claim 8, further comprising a data transmission system with at least one receiver and at least one transmitter which are associated with one another in a co-rotating and not co-rotating arrangement for wireless data transmission to and/or away from said sensor system and are arranged so that said wireless data transmission therebetween takes place predominantly within said mixing container. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) A fodder mixing wagon according to claim 10, where said transmitter and said receiver are configured for contactless bidirectional data transmission by inductive coupling. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) A fodder mixing wagon according to claim 10, where said transmitter and said receiver are configured for contactless bidirectional data transmission by way of radio signals. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) A fodder mixing wagon according to claim 8, further comprising a data transmission system with slip rings and runners which are associated with one another in a not co-rotating and co-rotating arrangement for contacting data transmission to and/or away from said sensor system.