US 12,486,646 B2
Method and device for measuring the performance of an earth-moving machine in soil, and earth-moving machine comprising a device of said type
Raphael Ott, Tschagguns (AT); Ralf Pfefferkorn, Tschagguns (AT); and Bernhard Gantner, Tschagguns (AT)
Assigned to Sodex Innovations GmbH, Tschagguns (AT)
Appl. No. 18/702,925
Filed by SODEX INNOVATIONS GMBH, Tschaggungs (AT)
PCT Filed Oct. 19, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/079066
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 19, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/066978, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 27, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. A 60263/2021 (AT), filed on Oct. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2025/0250771 A1, Aug. 7, 2025
Int. Cl. E02F 9/26 (2006.01)
CPC E02F 9/261 (2013.01) [E02F 9/264 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for detecting a working performance of an earth-moving machine within a subsoil, which comprises the following steps of:
a) detecting a topography of an original subsoil, being an original terrain, taken before or at a start of earth movements using the earth-moving machine;
b) detecting a changing topography of the subsoil, being an actual terrain, as a result of earth-moving operations during an execution of earth movements using the earth-moving machine;
c) carrying out step b) until a specified topography of the subsoil is reached, namely a target terrain;
performing a comparison test by:
d) comparing the original terrain with the actual terrain to detect the earth movements already carried out with the earth-moving machine; or
e) comparing the original terrain with the target terrain to detect all the earth movements made with the earth-moving machine on the subsoil to create the target terrain; or
f) comparing two different recorded actual terrains to detect the earth movements already made between them with the earth-moving machine;
g) determining the working performance of the earth-moving machine in dependence on the comparison from the step d) or e) or f);
h) detecting the original terrain or the actual terrain in the steps a) to c) by means of topography sensors which are attached to the earth-moving machine.