Patents by Inventor Eero Suomi

Eero Suomi 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: 9016661
    Abstract: A booster for a digital hydraulic controller which has at least one digital valve (40). The booster is connected to a magnetic coil (41) of a valve stem (42) of the digital valve (40) by at least two voltages (21, 22) wherein one voltage (21) is higher than the other voltage (22). The invention also relates to a method for using a booster in connection with a digital hydraulic controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Juhani Toppari, Eero Suomi
  • Publication number: 20120073431
    Abstract: A digital hydraulic controller has at least two rows of valve elements: one can connect a supply line to a controller output, the other can connect the controller output to an outlet line. The valve elements of each row are connected in parallel and are switchable individually or simultaneously in different combinations with each other and have different flow cross sections. The valve element with the smallest flow cross section is present twice in the row. A system unit has a differential cylinder and a digital hydraulic controller with four rows of valve elements, two of which are, with their common controller output, connected to the one pressure chamber of the differential cylinder, while the other two rows of valve elements are, with their common controller output, connected to the other pressure chamber of the differential cylinder. The differential cylinder can be used as a precisely adjustable linear actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: METSO PAPER, INC.
    Inventors: Arto Ikonen, Eero Suomi, Ville Hopponen
  • Patent number: 7704351
    Abstract: A processing device and method applying the same for processing a coated or uncoated fibrous web is provided. The device comprises a belt configured to extend around a guiding element, at least one counter-element being disposed outside said belt to provide a contact area with the belt, such that the belt and the counter-element establish therebetween a web processing zone for passing a web to be processed therethrough. The processing zone length is defined by the disposition of the belt's guiding element and/or by the configuration of the counter-elements. The contact pressure applied to a web in the processing zone is within the range of between about 0.01 MPa and about 200 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Juha Lipponen, Vilho Nissinen, Pekka Koivukunnas, Mika Viljanmaa, Henri Vaittinen, Reijo Pietikäinen, Kari Hasanen, Risto Sutti, Eero Suomi, Pekka Linnonmaa, Markku Kyytsönen, Matti Tervonen, Heikki Kettunen, Kari Holopainen
  • Publication number: 20080289784
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for treating a fibrous web downstream of slitting. In the method, the finishing of a fibrous web for providing desired properties is performed by using one or more finishing units, at least one of which comprises a web processing apparatus provided with a metal belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: METSO PAPER, INC.
    Inventors: Reijo Pietikainen, Eero Suomi, Pekka Taskinen, Mika Viljanmaa, Henri Vaittinen, Risto Talja, Vilho Nissinen, Jorma Laapotti, Jari Ilomaki, Maria Lepola, Juha Lipponen
  • Publication number: 20060276317
    Abstract: A heatable and/or coolable roll, i.e. a thermo roll, of a fibrous web machine for the treatment of a fibrous web, is, for example, for pressing and/or calendering the fibrous web in contact, i.e. in a nip, between the thermo roll and a backing member which is in contact with the thermo roll or for drying or cooling the fibrous web on the shell surface of the thermo roll. A semi-finished product of a thermo roll is manufactured using a thermo roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2004
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Reijo Pietikainen, Teemu Saarikoski, Mika Korhonen, Matti Tervonen, Timo Torvi, Jari Liimatainen, Kari Salminen, Eero Suomi, Mari Laakso
  • Publication number: 20060032597
    Abstract: The object of the invention is a control and an adjustment method for the fibre web machine. According to the invention—an emitting voice is measured continuously at least from one section of the fibre web machine and frequency bands (df) and/or the combinations of the frequency bands and amplitudes of the same, which correlate state and change of different process values, are separated measuring signals (fm);—the measuring signals are compared with reference signals (fref), which correlate an ideal state or a desired state; and—control signals are generated from deviations of the measuring signals and reference signal (fA), by which control signals the measured process values are returned closer to the ideal state or the desired state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicant: Metso Paper Inc.
    Inventors: Eero Suomi, Matti Tervonen
  • Publication number: 20050251977
    Abstract: A processing device and method applying the same for processing a coated or uncoated fibrous web is provided. The device comprises a belt configured to extend around a guiding element, at least one counter-element being disposed outside said belt to provide a contact area with the belt, such that the belt and the counter-element establish therebetween a web processing zone for passing a web to be processed therethrough. The processing zone length is defined by the disposition of the belt's guiding element and/or by the configuration of the counter-elements. The contact pressure applied to a web in the processing zone is within the range of between about 0.01 MPa and about 200 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Juha Lipponen, Vilho Nissinen, Pekka Koivukunnas, Mika Viljanmaa, Henri Vaittinen, Reijo Pietikainen, Kari Hasanen, Risto Sutti, Eero Suomi, Pekka Linnonmaa, Markku Kyytsonen, Matti Tervonen, Heikki Kettunen, Kari Holopainen
  • Publication number: 20050113231
    Abstract: A nip roll of a paper or board machine is a heatable roll manufactured of steel. The thermal shock resistance of the roll is over 6,000 W/m2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Eero Suomi, Markus Laitila, Timo Torvi, Hannu Vuorikari
  • Patent number: 6863919
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method by means of which the machine-direction moisture of a web being coated can be controlled in an optimal manner that takes into account moisture content changes along the entire path of the coating and drying process. Advantageously, all the dryers the coater section are controlled in an integrated manner in order to obtain a controlledly processed product which is optimized in regard to energy consumption and product quality. Each process section and unit contributing to the drying of the web is identified by means of a mathematical submodel describing the specific evaporation rate in the respective process section/unit and, by chaining these submodels, a composite model is compiled for the entire process, whereby the composite model makes it possible to manage the drying operation in the process so that the individual units are controlled as a portion of the overall process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Tapio Mäenpää, Eero Suomi, Vilho Nissinen
  • Patent number: 6615709
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for detecting a contamination and damaging of a face (10) that runs through a nip or nips (N1 . . . N10) in a calendar for paper. In the method vibrations occurring in connection with the constructions (18, 100) of a calendar are detected and processed. The vibrations are detected by at least one vibration detector (40; 41 . . . 46; 41a. . . 46a, 41b. . . 46b) fitted in connection with the bearing supports of calendar rolls (11 . . . 16) or in connection with constructions (18, 100) related to said bearing supports. By the way of these vibration detectors the calendar roll(s) (11 . . . 16) is/are identified from which the vibration derives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Eero Suomi, Tapio Mäenpää, Arto Karjalainen
  • Patent number: 6270628
    Abstract: A method for detecting contamination on or damage to a web-contacting face in a paper machine or a paper finishing machine, including the steps of detecting vibrations of the web-contacting face over a period of time by means of a plurality of detectors arranged in association with the machine and determining the location of the contamination on or damage to the web-contacting face based on the time the vibrations were detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Valmet Corporation
    Inventors: Eero Suomi, Tapio Mäenp{umlaut over (aa)}, Arto Karjalainen
  • Patent number: 6264792
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing calendered paper by an on-line manufacturing system comprising at least a paper machine and a multi-nip calender. The method comprises following steps: removing water from a formed paper web by pressing, drying the pressed paper web by at least one dryer, calendering the dried web by the multi-nip calender, measuring a cross-machine moisture profile or a variable relative thereto, and altering the moisture of the web so that the moisture profile of the web in the cross-direction is even when the web enters the first nip of the calender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Valmet Corporation
    Inventors: Harri Kuosa, Markku Kyytsönen, Juhani Partanen, Kari Sipi, Eero Suomi, Antti Heikkinen, Mikko Tani, Juha Lipponen, Mika Tammenoja, Kari Juppi