Patents by Inventor Aarne Heino

Aarne Heino 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: 9975277
    Abstract: A method for performing an infrared treatment includes the steps of receiving an extruded product and feeding the extruded product to an oven including at least one lamp unit. The lamp unit includes a lamp, a reflective surface enclosing a first side of the lamp and positioned to direct radiation from the lamp, and a glass disposed between a second side of the lamp and an extruded product, wherein the glass separates the lamp and the extruded product. The method further includes the step of creating cross-linking between layers of the extruded product by directing the radiation at the extruded product. Still further, the method includes the steps of directing a first gas flow at a surface of the product and directing a second gas flow at the glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: PEXCOR MANUFACUTRING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Aarne Heino, Ilya Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20170100856
    Abstract: A method for performing an infrared treatment includes the steps of receiving an extruded product and feeding the extruded product to an oven including at least one lamp unit. The lamp unit includes a lamp, a reflective surface enclosing a first side of the lamp and positioned to direct radiation from the lamp, and a glass disposed between a second side of the lamp and an extruded product, wherein the glass separates the lamp and the extruded product. The method further includes the step of creating cross-linking between layers of the extruded product by directing the radiation at the extruded product. Still further, the method includes the steps of directing a first gas flow at a surface of the product and directing a second gas flow at the glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Inventors: Aarne Heino, Ilya Kaufman
  • Patent number: 9522496
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a method to produce plastic pipe where a pipe of two or more layers is extruded and where at least one layer has additive that by heat treatment releases free radicals. Immediately after the extrusion, the pipe is heat treated by leading it either through a hot salt bath or an infra-red radiation so that the mentioned additive decomposes. Now, the layer(s) having additive get cross-linked and additionally the crosslinked layer(s) fix with chemical bonds to at least one other layer. With this method it is possible to produce a plastic pipe where there is no need to use a separate adhesion plastic layer to fix to each other layers that reject each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Inventor: Aarne Heino
  • Patent number: 9475236
    Abstract: A method for performing an infrared treatment includes the steps of receiving an extruded product and feeding the extruded product to an oven including at least one lamp unit. The lamp unit includes a lamp, a reflective surface enclosing a first side of the lamp and positioned to direct radiation from the lamp, and a glass disposed between a second side of the lamp and an extruded product, wherein the glass separates the lamp and the extruded product. The method further includes the step of creating cross-linking between layers of the extruded product by directing the radiation at the extruded product. Still further, the method includes the steps of directing a first gas flow at a surface of the product and directing a second gas flow at the glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: PEXCOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Aarne Heino, Iiya Kaufman
  • Patent number: 9067367
    Abstract: A method for performing an infrared treatment includes the steps of receiving an extruded product and feeding the extruded product to an oven including at least one lamp unit. The lamp unit includes a lamp, a reflective surface enclosing a first side of the lamp and positioned to direct radiation from the lamp, and a glass disposed between a second side of the lamp and an extruded product, wherein the glass separates the lamp and the extruded product. The method further includes the step of creating cross-linking between layers of the extruded product by directing the radiation at the extruded product. Still further, the method includes the steps of directing a first gas flow at a surface of the product and directing a second gas flow at the glass at an intensity, direction, and temperature that prevents the glass from becoming an infrared source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Pexcor Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Aarne Heino, Iiya Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20150084241
    Abstract: A method for performing an infrared treatment includes the steps of receiving an extruded product and feeding the extruded product to an oven including at least one lamp unit. The lamp unit includes a lamp, a reflective surface enclosing a first side of the lamp and positioned to direct radiation from the lamp, and a glass disposed between a second side of the lamp and an extruded product, wherein the glass separates the lamp and the extruded product. The method further includes the step of creating cross-linking between layers of the extruded product by directing the radiation at the extruded product. Still further, the method includes the steps of directing a first gas flow at a surface of the product and directing a second gas flow at the glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Aarne Heino, Ilya Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20140151937
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a method to produce plastic pipe where a pipe of two or more layers is extruded and where at least one layer has additive that by heat treatment releases free radicals. Immediately after the extrusion, the pipe is heat treated by leading it either through a hot salt bath or an infra-red radiation so that the mentioned additive decomposes. Now, the layer(s) having additive get cross-linked and additionally the crosslinked layer(s) fix with chemical bonds to at least one other layer. With this method it is possible to produce a plastic pipe where there is no need to use a separate adhesion plastic layer to fix to each other layers that reject each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: PEXCOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY INC.
    Inventor: Aarne Heino
  • Publication number: 20130228955
    Abstract: A method for performing an infrared treatment includes the steps of receiving an extruded product and feeding the extruded product to an oven including at least one lamp unit. The lamp unit includes a lamp, a reflective surface enclosing a first side of the lamp and positioned to direct radiation from the lamp, and a glass disposed between a second side of the lamp and an extruded product, wherein the glass separates the lamp and the extruded product. The method further includes the step of creating cross-linking between layers of the extruded product by directing the radiation at the extruded product. Still further, the method includes the steps of directing a first gas flow at a surface of the product and directing a second gas flow at the glass at an intensity, direction, and temperature that prevents the glass from becoming an infrared source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Pexcor Manufacturing Company Inc.
    Inventors: Aarne Heino, Iiya Kaufman
  • Patent number: 6797741
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method in connection with processing polymer or elastomer material, wherein additive is added to the polymer or elastomer material, and the additive is subjected to the desired chemical reaction. To minimize energy consumption, infrared radiation is led to the polymer or elastomer material, the wavelength of the radiation being so chosen that the radiation penetrates optimally the polymer or elastomer material, but absorbs in the additive, producing the desired reaction in the additive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Maillefer S.A.
    Inventor: Aarne Heino
  • Patent number: 4309160
    Abstract: A method of forming a foam-skin insulation on telephone wires, wherein a homogenuous flow of basic plastic is divided into two separate flows one of which is subjected to mixing with a foam agent while the other, intended to form an outer layer of solid plastic, is bypassed directly to an extruder tool. The apparatus used for the method comprises one single extruder, the extruder head whereof is provided with a flow dividing piece guiding one flow past foam injecting nozzles and the other flow through a separate branch channel to the extruder tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Assignee: Oy Nokia AB
    Inventors: Matti J. Poutanen, Aarne Heino