Patents by Inventor Pertti Nissinen
Pertti Nissinen 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).
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Patent number: 11650326Abstract: A wearable training computer includes a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) antenna arrangement configured to provide a group of antenna configurations for receiving a GNSS signal, wherein each antenna configuration provides different radio frequency properties. The wearable training computer further includes a measurement circuitry configured to measure performance of the GNSS antenna and a processing circuitry configured to select, based on at least an activity type of a user of the wearable training computer, a subset of the antenna configurations from the group of the antenna configurations, and further configured to select, from the subset of the antenna configurations based on the measured GNSS antenna performance, an antenna configuration for receiving the GNSS signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Polar Electro OyInventors: Vesna Somero, Ville Majava, Pertti Nissinen, Atte Kuosmonen, Marko Tuhkala
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Publication number: 20220361814Abstract: A wrist-worn training computer includes one or more biosensors; a casing; a display lens positioned against the casing to form an interface between the display lens and the casing, and to enclose together with the casing an enclosed space between the casing and the display lens; a first part of an antenna of a satellite navigation receiver disposed within the enclosed space; and a gasket positioned along the interface between the display lens and the casing to seal the enclosed space. The gasket comprises electrically conductive material that forms a second part of the antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: Polar Electro OyInventors: Erkki Hinkola, Ilkka Heikura, Janne Virta, Pertti Nissinen
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Publication number: 20210063581Abstract: A wearable training computer includes a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) antenna arrangement configured to provide a group of antenna configurations for receiving a GNSS signal, wherein each antenna configuration provides different radio frequency properties. The wearable training computer further includes a measurement circuitry configured to measure performance of the GNSS antenna and a processing circuitry configured to select, based on at least an activity type of a user of the wearable training computer, a subset of the antenna configurations from the group of the antenna configurations, and further configured to select, from the subset of the antenna configurations based on the measured GNSS antenna performance, an antenna configuration for receiving the GNSS signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: Polar Electro OyInventors: Vesna Somero, Ville Majava, Pertti Nissinen, Atte Kuosmonen, Marko Tuhkala
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Patent number: 10594025Abstract: An coupled antenna apparatus particularly well adapted for small form factor, metal encased applications that utilize satellite wireless links, e.g. GPS. Certain examples use electromagnetic feeding that includes one or more separate feed elements that are not galvanically connected to a radiator element of the antenna. Additionally, one radiator element of the antenna can be located on an outermost surface of a bezel of an electronic device, for example a wrist-wearable device. A low capacitance transient voltage suppressor diode is housed within an electronic device and electrically coupled to such an outer radiator element.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Suunto OyInventors: Pertti Nissinen, Heikki Puuri, Mikko Sepänniitty, Ville Mattila
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Patent number: 10079428Abstract: Antenna apparatus and methods of use and tuning. In one exemplary embodiment, the solution of the present disclosure is particularly adapted for small form-factor, metal-encased applications that utilize satellite wireless links (e.g., GPS), and uses an electromagnetic (e.g., capacitive) feeding method that includes one or more separate feed elements that are not galvanically connected to a radiating element of the antenna. In addition, certain implementations of the antenna apparatus offer the capability to carry more than one operating band for the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Pulse Finland OYInventors: Pertti Nissinen, Kimmo Koskiniemi, Prasadh Ramachandran
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Patent number: 9647338Abstract: Antenna apparatus and methods of use and tuning. In one exemplary embodiment, the solution of the present disclosure is particularly adapted for small form-factor, metal-encased applications that utilize satellite wireless links (e.g., GPS), and uses an electromagnetic (e.g., capacitive) feeding method that includes one or more separate feed elements that are not galvanically connected to a radiator element of the antenna. In addition, certain implementations of the antenna apparatus offer the capability to carry more than one operating band for the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Pulse Finland OyInventors: Pertti Nissinen, Kimmo Koskiniemi, Prasadh Ramachandran
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Patent number: 9509054Abstract: A right-hand circular polarized antenna and associated methods. In one embodiment, a quarter-wave antenna configuration is used within a small form factor portable device (e.g. wristwatch). The antenna comprises a radiator element which operates in as a linear polarized antenna while the device is operating in free space. However, when the device is attached to a user (e.g. at a user's wrist), the antenna utilizes the loading of the user's body tissue in order to suppress unwanted signals (e.g. left hand polarized signals) to permit operation in circular polarized mode (e.g. right hand polarized mode), thereby allowing for increased sensitivity to received circularly polarized signals such as those emanated from global positioning satellites.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Pulse Finland OYInventors: Kimmo Koskiniemi, Pertti Nissinen
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Patent number: 9450297Abstract: The invention concerns an electronic device for personal use and a coupled antenna apparatus for such a device, comprising a top cover and a housing with an opposing back cover configured to form a closed space between said top and back cover that is adapted to receive electronic circuitry and a display unit. A bezel made of a conductive material is forming a rim on top of said housing and is interfacing with the top cover. According to the invention, an elongate strip of a conductive material deposited on a first side of an elongate antenna feed element and is forming a first radiating element and a second elongate strip of a conductive material deposited on a second side of the antenna feed element is forming a second radiating element, whereby the first and second radiating elements are positioned in proximity against the bezel at at least one inner wall portion of the bezel that extends in a direction between the first and second radiating elements and the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Suunto OyInventors: Mikko Sepänniitty, Heikki Puuri, Ville Mattila, Panu Perko, Pertti Nissinen
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Publication number: 20160056533Abstract: An coupled antenna apparatus particularly well adapted for small form factor, metal encased applications that utilize satellite wireless links, e.g. GPS. Certain examples use electromagnetic feeding that includes one or more separate feed elements that are not galvanically connected to a radiator element of the antenna. Additionally, one radiator element of the antenna can be located on an outermost surface of a bezel of an electronic device, for example a wrist-wearable device. A low capacitance transient voltage suppressor diode is housed within an electronic device and electrically coupled to such an outer radiator element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2015Publication date: February 25, 2016Inventors: Pertti Nissinen, Heikki Puuri, Mikko Sepänniitty, Ville Mattila
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Publication number: 20160036120Abstract: The invention concerns an electronic device for personal use and a coupled antenna apparatus for such a device, comprising a top cover and a housing with an opposing back cover configured to form a closed space between said top and back cover that is adapted to receive electronic circuitry and a display unit. A bezel made of a conductive material is forming a rim on top of said housing and is interfacing with the top cover. According to the invention, an elongate strip of a conductive material deposited on a first side of an elongate antenna feed element and is forming a first radiating element and a second elongate strip of a conductive material deposited on a second side of the antenna feed element is forming a second radiating element, whereby the first and second radiating elements are positioned in proximity against the bezel at at least one inner wall portion of the bezel that extends in a direction between the first and second radiating elements and the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2015Publication date: February 4, 2016Inventors: Mikko Sepänniitty, Heikki Puuri, Ville Mattila, Panu Perko, Pertti Nissinen
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Publication number: 20150155631Abstract: A right-hand circular polarized antenna and associated methods. In one embodiment, a quarter-wave antenna configuration is used within a small form factor portable device (e.g. wristwatch). The antenna comprises a radiator element which operates in as a linear polarized antenna while the device is operating in free space. However, when the device is attached to a user (e.g. at a user's wrist), the antenna utilizes the loading of the user's body tissue in order to suppress unwanted signals (e.g. left hand polarized signals) to permit operation in circular polarized mode (e.g. right hand polarized mode), thereby allowing for increased sensitivity to received circularly polarized signals such as those emanated from global positioning satellites.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Kimmo Koskiniemi, Pertti Nissinen
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Patent number: 8988296Abstract: A right-hand circular polarized antenna and associated methods. In one embodiment, a quarter-wave antenna configuration is used within a small form factor portable device (e.g. wristwatch). The antenna comprises a radiator element which operates in as a linear polarized antenna while the device is operating in free space. However, when the device is attached to a user (e.g. at a user's wrist), the antenna utilizes the loading of the user's body tissue in order to suppress unwanted signals (e.g. left hand polarized signals) to permit operation in circular polarized mode (e.g. right hand polarized mode), thereby allowing for increased sensitivity to received circularly polarized signals such as those emanated from global positioning satellites.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Pulse Finland OyInventors: Kimmo Koskiniemi, Pertti Nissinen
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Publication number: 20140253394Abstract: Antenna apparatus and methods of use and tuning. In one exemplary embodiment, the solution of the present disclosure is particularly adapted for small form-factor, metal-encased applications that utilize satellite wireless links (e.g., GPS), and uses an electromagnetic (e.g., capacitive) feeding method that includes one or more separate feed elements that are not galvanically connected to a radiator element of the antenna. In addition, certain implementations of the antenna apparatus offer the capability to carry more than one operating band for the antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Inventors: Pertti Nissinen, Kimmo Koskiniemi, Prasadh Ramachandran
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Publication number: 20140253393Abstract: Antenna apparatus and methods of use and tuning. In one exemplary embodiment, the solution of the present disclosure is particularly adapted for small form-factor, metal-encased applications that utilize satellite wireless links (e.g., GPS), and uses an electromagnetic (e.g., capacitive) feeding method that includes one or more separate feed elements that are not galvanically connected to a radiating element of the antenna. In addition, certain implementations of the antenna apparatus offer the capability to carry more than one operating band for the antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Inventors: Pertti Nissinen, Kimmo Koskiniemi, Prasadh Ramachandran
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Patent number: 8786499Abstract: An antenna system internal to the device especially intended for small-sized mobile stations, the system having separate operating bands. The system is implemented as decentralized in a way that the device (300) has a plurality of separate antennas (310-360). Each antenna is based on (a) radiating element(s) on the surface of a dielectric substrate. The substrate can be, for example, a piece of ceramics or a part of the outer casing of the device. The antennas are located at suitable places in the device. The operating band of an individual antenna covers the frequency range used by one radio system, the frequency ranges close to each other and is used by two different radio systems or only the transmitting or receiving band of the frequency range used by a radio system. If the device has a shared transmitter and a shared receiver for the radio systems using frequency ranges close to each other, there can anyway be a separate antenna for each system or the antenna can also be shared.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2006Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Pulse Finland OyInventors: Pertti Nissinen, Antti Leskelä, Jari Perunka, Zlatoljub Milosavljevic, Petteri Annamaa, Kimmo Koskiniemi
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Publication number: 20130265199Abstract: A right-hand circular polarized antenna and associated methods. In one embodiment, a quarter-wave antenna configuration is used within a small form factor portable device (e.g. wristwatch). The antenna comprises a radiator element which operates in as a linear polarized antenna while the device is operating in free space. However, when the device is attached to a user (e.g. at a user's wrist), the antenna utilizes the loading of the user's body tissue in order to suppress unwanted signals (e.g. left hand polarized signals) to permit operation in circular polarized mode (e.g. right hand polarized mode), thereby allowing for increased sensitivity to received circularly polarized signals such as those emanated from global positioning satellites.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2012Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: Kimmo Koskiniemi, Pertti Nissinen
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Patent number: 8179322Abstract: A dielectric dual antenna apparatus intended for applications such as small-sized radio frequency devices. The dual antenna comprises a first partial antenna which implements the lower operating band of the antenna and another partial antenna implementing the upper operating band. The partial antennas have a shared substrate, which together with the radiators constitutes an integrated antenna component. The matching of the dual antenna can be improved in either operating band without degrading it in the other operating band at the same time. Methods of operating the aforementioned apparatus are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2008Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Pulse Finland OyInventor: Pertti Nissinen
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Patent number: 8098202Abstract: A dielectric dual antenna (300) intended especially for small-sized radio apparatuses, with one partial antenna (310) of which is implemented the lower operating band of the antenna and with the second partial antenna (320) the upper operating band. The partial antennas have a shared feed point (FP) in the antenna structure, e.g. at the end of a radiating element (312) of one partial antenna, in which case the other partial antenna receives its feed galvanically through said radiating element by a short intermediate conductor (332). The partial antennas are located so that their substrates (311, 321) are heads face to face, and the main directions of the radiating elements i.e. the conductive coatings of the substrates starting from the shared feed point are opposing. The tunings of the partial antennas corresponding to different operating bands are obtained independent from each other without discrete matching components.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2007Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Pulse Finland OyInventors: Petteri Annamaa, Pertti Nissinen
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Publication number: 20110199280Abstract: A dielectric antenna component (200) suitable for smallsized radio devices and an antenna based on such an antenna component. A substrate with relatively high permittivity for a radiating conductor is used in the antenna for reducing the size of the antenna. The substrate (210) is elongated, and the radiating conductive coating (220) constitutes a loop circulating via its ends. The width of one long side (221) of the loop is at most half of the width of the other long side (222). The bandwidth of a very small-sized antenna can be made large, because the phases of the electromagnetic waves in the radiator branches are nearly equal. For the same reason the efficiency of the antenna can be made relatively good in spite of the dielectric substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2009Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventor: Pertti Nissinen
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Patent number: 7903035Abstract: An internal antenna especially aimed at flat radio devices. The antenna (200) comprises a planar radiator (220) with a branch (221) for forming a lower operating band for the antenna and a second branch (222) for forming an upper operating band. The branches typically form a frame-like pattern. There remains a slot (230) between the branches, opening to the outer edge of the radiator approximately in the middle of the edge running in the direction of the end of the circuit board (205) and being outside the circuit board as seen from above. The omnidirectional radiation of the antenna on its upper operating band improves as compared to the corresponding, known antennas, and its efficiency improves, because the average antenna gain increases.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Pulse Finland OYInventors: Jyrki Mikkola, Ari Raappana, Pasi Keskitalo, Pertti Nissinen