Patents by Inventor Lasse HEIKKILÄ

Lasse HEIKKILÄ has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9834409
    Abstract: In a rope of a lifting device, particularly of a passenger transport elevator and/or freight transport elevator, the width of which rope is greater than the thickness in the transverse direction of the rope, which rope includes a load-bearing part in the longitudinal direction of the rope, which load-bearing part includes carbon-fiber reinforced, aramid-fiber reinforced and/or glass-fiber reinforced composite material in a polymer matrix, and which rope includes one or more optical fibers and/or fiber bundles in connection with the load-bearing part and the optical fiber and/or fiber bundle is laminated inside the load-bearing part and/or the optical fiber and/or fiber bundle is glued onto the surface of the load-bearing part and/or and that the optical fiber and/or fiber bundle is embedded or glued into the polymer envelope surrounding the load-bearing part, as well as to a condition monitoring method for the rope of a lifting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Petri Kere, Riku Lampinen, Raimo Pelto-Huikko, Petteri Valjus, Lasse Heikkilä
  • Publication number: 20140305744
    Abstract: In a rope of a lifting device, particularly of a passenger transport elevator and/or freight transport elevator, the width of which rope is greater than the thickness in the transverse direction of the rope, which rope includes a load-bearing part in the longitudinal direction of the rope, which load-bearing part includes carbon-fiber reinforced, aramid-fiber reinforced and/or glass-fiber reinforced composite material in a polymer matrix, and which rope includes one or more optical fibers and/or fiber bundles in connection with the load-bearing part and the optical fiber and/or fiber bundle is laminated inside the load-bearing part and/or the optical fiber and/or fiber bundle is glued onto the surface of the load-bearing part and/or and that the optical fiber and/or fiber bundle is embedded or glued into the polymer envelope surrounding the load-bearing part, as well as to a condition monitoring method for the rope of a lifting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Petri KERE, Riku LAMPINEN, Raimo PELTO-HUIKKO, Petteri VALJUS, Lasse HEIKKILÄ
  • Publication number: 20110266097
    Abstract: Elevator, preferably a passenger elevator, which comprises an elevator car, and at least one hoisting rope for moving and supporting the elevator car, a traction sheave that acts on the hoisting rope, and a power source for rotating the traction sheave. The counterweight of the elevator comprises a brake for decelerating and/or preventing at least upward movement of the counterweight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Petteri VALJUS, Raimo PELTO-HUIKKO, Riku LAMPINEN, Lasse HEIKKILÄ