Patents by Inventor Heikki Kankkunen

Heikki Kankkunen 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).

  • Publication number: 20200254647
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a prefabricated concrete product is disclosed, in which method, a concrete slab with a recess at its upper surface is cast with slipform casting on a casting bed, and after the slipform casting of the slab the recess of the fresh cast slab is equipped with ducts, piping and/or wiring components, after which the recess is covered with concrete mass, and the concrete product is left to cure. The invention also relates to such a prefabricated concrete product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Elematic Oyj
    Inventor: Heikki Kankkunen
  • Patent number: 10022892
    Abstract: Method and facility or apparatus for cutting a slipform cast hollow-core concrete product with water jet cutting, wherein in the outer surface of the fresh cast hollow-core concrete product is formed depressions or grooves in the areas to be cut with water jet cutting before curing of the hollow-core concrete product, which depressions or grooves extend in the area of the hollow-cores of the concrete product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Elematic Oyj
    Inventor: Heikki Kankkunen
  • Publication number: 20150298350
    Abstract: Method and facility or apparatus for cutting a slipform cast hollow-core concrete product with water jet cutting, wherein in the outer surface of the fresh cast hollow-core concrete product is formed depressions or grooves in the areas to be cut with water jet cutting before curing of the hollow-core concrete product, which depressions or grooves extend in the area of the hollow-cores of the concrete product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Elematic Oy Ab
    Inventor: Heikki KANKKUNEN
  • Patent number: 6841110
    Abstract: A method for the production of prestressed concrete products and a plant for implementing the method. Moulds provided with pretensioned wires are moved through fixed casting machines into a hardening space. In the hardening space, the combination of mould and product is lifted sideways from the casting line before hardening, using synchronised lifting equipment. The combination may be stacked for space economy. After hardening, the product is removed from the mould using the same lifting equipment. The moulds are returned to the beginning of the casting line, during which stage they are cleaned and refurbished. The products are transferred to cutting and finishing stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Addtek Research Development OY AB
    Inventors: Aimo Seppänen, Heikki Kankkunen
  • Publication number: 20030057597
    Abstract: A method for the production of prestressed concrete products and a plant for implementing the method. Moulds provided with pretensioned wires are moved through fixed casting machines into a hardening space. In the hardening space, the combination of mould and product is lifted sideways from the casting line before hardening, using synchronised lifting equipment. The combinations may be stacked for space economy. After hardening, the product is removed from the mould using the same lifting equipment. The moulds are returned to the beginning of the casting line, during which stage they are cleaned and refurnished. The products are transferred to cutting and finishing stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Inventors: Aimo Seppanen, Heikki Kankkunen
  • Patent number: 4751033
    Abstract: A method for compacting a concrete mix in a casting mold into which the concrete mix is poured between at least two opposite and approximately parallel mold walls. The opposite mold walls are moved in a push-pull manner and essentially on the plane of the walls so that the concrete mix is subjected by the frictional action from the mold walls to an internal compacting shear produced by contradirectional movement of the opposite mold walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: Rakennusvalmiste Oy
    Inventor: Heikki Kankkunen