Patents by Inventor Heikki Holopainen

Heikki Holopainen 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: 11499709
    Abstract: A bottom-supported boiler that includes a boiler pressure body having a rectangular horizontal cross section formed by joining four planar water tube walls pairwise together so as to form four corners with water tube walls being formed with fins welded between the water tubes, and a support construction including four vertical columns vertically supported to the ground. The vertical columns are arranged outside of the boiler pressure body so that adjacent to each of the corner corners is arranged one of the four vertical columns. Each of the vertical columns is directly connected with a rigid joint to a respective corner so that vertical loads of the boiler pressure body are balanced by the four vertical columns, and so that the water tube walls are supported from their sides by the four vertical columns so that the weight of the boiler pressure body is transferred through the vertical columns, and such that each of the four vertical columns is directly attached to a respective corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Sumitomo SHI FW Energia Oy
    Inventors: Heikki Holopainen, Jussi Pollari
  • Patent number: 11209158
    Abstract: A boiler construction includes a boiler pressure body having a bottom and a roof at a height H from the bottom and at least four planar watertube walls forming a polygonal horizontal cross section with at least four corner sections, and a rigid support steel structure, the boiler pressure body being supported to the rigid support steel structure at a height between the bottom and roof. A vertical corner column is attached exteriorly to at least four of the at least four corner sections at a height region between the bottom and roof, and the supporting of the boiler pressure body is provided by supporting each of the vertical corner columns to the rigid support steel structure at a height from 0.1 H to 0.9 H from the bottom so as to balance vertical loads of the boiler pressure body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Sumitomo SHI FW Energia Oy
    Inventors: Pentti Lankinen, Heikki Holopainen, Jussi Pollari, Martyna Poreba-Sebastjan, Slawomir Solipiwko
  • Publication number: 20200292164
    Abstract: A boiler construction includes a boiler pressure body having a bottom and a roof at a height H from the bottom and at least four planar watertube walls forming a polygonal horizontal cross section with at least four corner sections, and a rigid support steel structure, the boiler pressure body being supported to the rigid support steel structure at a height between the bottom and roof. A vertical corner column is attached exteriorly to at least four of the at least four corner sections at a height region between the bottom and roof, and the supporting of the boiler pressure body is provided by supporting each of the vertical corner columns to the rigid support steel structure at a height from 0.1 H to 0.9 H from the bottom so as to balance vertical loads of the boiler pressure body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Pentti LANKINEN, Heikki HOLOPAINEN, Jussi POLLARI, Martyna POREBA-SEBASTJAN, Slawomir SOLIPIWKO
  • Publication number: 20190154251
    Abstract: A bottom-supported boiler includes a boiler pressure body having a rectangular horizontal cross section formed by joining four planar water tube walls pairwise together so as to form four corner sections, and a support construction. The support construction includes four vertical columns vertically supported to the ground, the vertical columns being arranged outside of the boiler pressure body so that adjacent to each of the corner sections is arranged one of the four vertical columns. Each of the vertical columns is attached to the respective corner section so that vertical loads of the boiler pressure body are balanced by the four vertical columns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Heikki Holopainen, Jussi Pollari