Patents by Inventor Antti Ikonen

Antti Ikonen 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: 10214388
    Abstract: A rope storage unit includes a rope reel, formed by a rope wound in a spiral form and a support body provided with an inner space inside which the rope reel is positioned supported by the support body. The rope is a rod having a straight form when in rest state and elastically bendable away from the straight form, the rope being under substantial bending tension in the spiral form. The support body includes one or more support members delimiting the inner space and surrounding radially the rope reel. The outer rim of the rope reel radially compresses against the one or more support members as an effect of the bending tension. A method is provided for installing an elevator rope implementing the rope storage unit, as well as to a method for fabricating the rope storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hannu Lehtinen, Antti Ikonen, Riku Lampinen, Toma Cornea, Antti Koskinen
  • Patent number: 9902595
    Abstract: A rope clamp for clamping one or more ropes includes a first clamping member having a first clamping face for being set against one or more ropes to be clamped and a second clamping member having a second clamping face for being set against one or more ropes to be clamped. The clamping faces defining a gap (between them) for receiving one or more ropes. The clamping members are relatively movable towards each other such that the gap is narrowed. The first clamping member and/or the second clamping member includes a metallic face part forming the clamping face of the clamping member, a metallic body part on the back side of the face part, and an elastic intermediate part made of elastic material between the body part and the face part for elastically transmitting force between the body part and the face part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku Lampinen, Hannu Lehtinen, Pekka Leppäaho, Antti Ikonen, Jarmo Reijonen, Lasse Nyman
  • Patent number: 9422134
    Abstract: A rope terminal assembly of an elevator fixing an elevator rope to a fixing base such as an elevator unit, the elevator being suitable for transporting passengers and/or goods, includes an elevator rope, whose width is larger than its thickness in a rope transverse direction, with at least one end having an end face, a rope end block attached to the rope end, one or more wedge elements, a wedge housing, where the terminal assembly includes a rope gap through which the elevator rope passes and the wedge element is arranged to wedge between the rope and the wedge housing thus locking the elevator rope in the gap, and the rope end block is attached on the end face side of the elevator rope with respect to the wedge element, and an elevator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Antti Ikonen, Jani Luoma, Pekka Hallikainen, Raimo Pelto-Huikko
  • Publication number: 20150232302
    Abstract: A rope clamp for clamping one or more ropes includes a first clamping member having a first clamping face for being set against one or more ropes to be clamped and a second clamping member having a second clamping face for being set against one or more ropes to be clamped. The clamping faces defining a gap (between them) for receiving one or more ropes. The clamping members are relatively movable towards each other such that the gap is narrowed. The first clamping member and/or the second clamping member includes a metallic face part forming the clamping face of the clamping member, a metallic body part on the back side of the face part, and an elastic intermediate part made of elastic material between the body part and the face part for elastically transmitting force between the body part and the face part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku Lampinen, Hannu Lehtinen, Pekka Leppäaho, Antti Ikonen, Jarmo Reijonen, Lasse Nyman
  • Publication number: 20150060588
    Abstract: A rope storage unit includes a rope reel, formed by a rope wound in a spiral form and a support body provided with an inner space inside which the rope reel is positioned supported by the support body. The rope is a rod having a straight form when in rest state and elastically bendable away from the straight form, the rope being under substantial bending tension in the spiral form. The support body includes one or more support members delimiting the inner space and surrounding radially the rope reel. The outer rim of the rope reel radially compresses against the one or more support members as an effect of the bending tension. A method is provided for installing an elevator rope implementing the rope storage unit, as well as to a method for fabricating the rope storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Hannu LEHTINEN, Antti IKONEN, Riku LAMPINEN, Toma CORNEA, Antti KOSKINEN
  • Publication number: 20140182975
    Abstract: A rope terminal assembly of an elevator fixing an elevator rope to a fixing base such as an elevator unit, the elevator being suitable for transporting passengers and/or goods, includes an elevator rope, whose width is larger than its thickness in a rope transverse direction, with at least one end having an end face, a rope end block attached to the rope end, one or more wedge elements, a wedge housing, where the terminal assembly includes a rope gap through which the elevator rope passes and the wedge element is arranged to wedge between the rope and the wedge housing thus locking the elevator rope in the gap, and the rope end block is attached on the end face side of the elevator rope with respect to the wedge element, and an elevator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: KONE Corporation
    Inventors: Antti IKONEN, Jani LUOMA, Pekka HALLIKAINEN, Raimo PELTO-HUIKKO
  • Patent number: 8540058
    Abstract: An elevator in which a first gap between a car sill and a landing sill can be maintained as small as possible except at a space of the car sill which passes over a second connecting element that drives a landing door on a landing. The structure of the elevator is simple, inexpensive and reliable, wherein a second gap of the space required for the connecting element, which gap is larger than the first gap, can be closed and opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Kone Corporation
    Inventors: Antti Ikonen, Jouni Kalm
  • Publication number: 20090229923
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a traction sheave elevator without counterweight, which comprises at least a drive machine with traction sheave, hoisting ropes, an elevator car guided on its track or the like, car guide rails on one side of the elevator car, which is supported on the hoisting ropes such that the hoisting ropes are on one side of the elevator car. The elevator contains a plurality of rope pulley modules, which comprise a plurality of diverting pulleys.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Esko Aulanko, Antti Ikonen, Pekka Leppaaho, Matti Rasanen, Teemu Tolonen, Petri Pukkila
  • Publication number: 20090114486
    Abstract: When the car of the elevator is at the landing the first gap (20) between the first front edge (9) of the car sill (7) and the second front edge (16) of the landing sill (14) is at most approx. 15 mm, preferably approx. 1-10 mm, in the area (21) of the car sill which is on the side of the space (19) into which the second connecting elements (18) in the shaft extend in the horizontal direction. The car sill contains an opening (22) and the footguard (10) can contain a corresponding vertical chute (23) at the point of the opening (22). The opening (22) and the chute (23) allow the passage of the car sill (7) and the footguard (10) over the second connecting elements (18). The second gap (24) left between the landing sill (14) and the car sill (7) at the point of the opening (22) is greater than the first gap (20). The car sill (7) comprises a closing element (25), which contains a covering surface (26) essentially the size of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Antti IKONEN, Jouni Kalm