Patents by Inventor Pekka Hottinen

Pekka Hottinen 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).

  • Publication number: 20090199426
    Abstract: A method for the treatment of wood or wood products, in which method moist wood or wood products (1) are first dried by pressing and further by heating so that a desired degree of dryness is reached. In the first stage, the wood or wood products (1) arranged between treating elements (2) are pressed between the treating elements (2) so that liquid is removed from the wood being treated. In the method, as a result of the combined effect of the pressure, the liquid and/or gaseous substance released into the chamber space from the wood material being treated and possibly also air circulation arranged in the treatment chamber, a change of temperature in the treatment chamber from a lower temperature (T1) to a higher temperature (T2) is achieved without supplying additional heat into the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: TEKNOCOMP OY
    Inventors: Ari Hottinen, Pekka Hottinen
  • Patent number: 6857201
    Abstract: Object for the invention is a method for treatment and drying of wood, in which at the first phase wood is warmed up over to the temperature close of the boiling point of water, and wood is compressed with a variable pressure between moisture permeable pressing elements, the temperature of the wood is increased so quickly, that the moisture existing in the wood does not have time to evaporate essentially before the temperature of the wood has increased around the boiling point of water. According to the invention when the surface layers of the timber have reached the temperature close the boiling point of the water the pressure is increased, and at the pressing phase the temperature of wood is kept at the temperature range close the boiling point of the water under that higher pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Oy Arboreo Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Ari Hottinen, Pekka Hottinen
  • Publication number: 20040025367
    Abstract: Object for the invention is a method for treatment and drying of wood, in which at the first phase wood is warmed up over to the temperature close of the boiling point of water, and wood is compressed with a variable pressure between moisture permeable pressing elements, the temperature of the wood is increased so quickly, that the moisture existing in the wood does not have time to evaporate essentially before the temperature of the wood has increased around the boiling point of water. According to the invention when the surface layers of the timber have reached the temperature close the boiling point of the water the pressure is increased, and at the pressing phase the temperature of wood is kept at the temperature range close the boiling point of the water under that higher pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Applicant: Hitwood Oy
    Inventors: Ari Hottinen, Pekka Hottinen