Patents by Inventor Johan Engstrom
Johan Engstrom 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).
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Publication number: 20050277195Abstract: A method for characterizing n components An of n catalytic systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2003Publication date: December 15, 2005Applicant: Gyros ABInventors: Mats Holmquist, Johan Engstrom, Anders Palm, Per Andersson, Gunnar Ekstrand
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Patent number: 6965074Abstract: A pole-top insulator for carrying overhead electrical cables on pole legs or similar supporting structures located along power lines. One or more self-supporting tubular supporting arms made of electrically insulating composite material to which supporting cables are fixed are arranged on the top end of the supporting structures. The tubular supporting arms are joined to the supporting structure via an intermediate center part that can be attached to the supporting structure from which the tubular supporting arms extend outwards.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2002Date of Patent: November 15, 2005Assignee: ABB ABInventors: Björn Lindberg, Johan Engström
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Publication number: 20050186685Abstract: A method for transporting in a microfluidic conduit an aliquot of a liquid, possibly containing a substance I, which is dissolved in the liquid and typically exhibits charged groups and/or hydrophobic groups. The method is characterized in that the liquid contains an amphiphilic macromolecular substance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Inventors: Rickard Kange, Mats Inganas, Magnus Gustafsson, Johan Engstrom, Bo Ek, Helene Derand, Ann-Kristin Honerud
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Publication number: 20050159851Abstract: System and method for real-time, automatic, recognition of large time-scale driving patterns employs a statistical pattern recognition framework, implemented by means of feed-forward neural network utilizing models developed for recognizing, for example, four classes of driving environments, namely highway, main road, suburban traffic and city traffic, from vehicle performance data. A vehicle control application effects changes in vehicle performance aspects based on the recognized driving environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2005Publication date: July 21, 2005Applicant: VOLVO TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Johan ENGSTROM, Trent VICTOR
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Patent number: 6879969Abstract: System and method for real-time, automatic, recognition of large time-scale driving patterns employs a statistical pattern recognition framework, implemented by means of feed-forward neural network utilizing models developed for recognizing, for example, four classes of driving environments, namely highway, main road, suburban traffic and city traffic, from vehicle performance data. A vehicle control application effects changes in vehicle performance aspects based on the recognized driving environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2002Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Volvo Technological Development CorporationInventors: Johan Engström, Trent Victor
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Publication number: 20040251385Abstract: The invention concerns a pole-top insulator for carrying overhead electrical cables (7) on pole legs or similar supporting structures (4) located along power lines and that includes one or more self-supporting tubular supporting arms (1, 2, 2′) made of electrically insulating composite material to which supporting cables are fixed on the top end of the said supporting structures. In order to make a pole-top insulator that is both insulating and self-supporting and can be prefabricated and mounted as oine unit onto an existing pole leg, the tubular supporting arms (1, 2, 2′) are joined to the supporting structure (4) via an intermediate centre part (3) that can be attached to the supporting structure from which the said tubular supporting arms extend outwards.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Bjorn Lindberg, Johan Engstrom
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Publication number: 20020128751Abstract: System and method for real-time, automatic, recognition of large time-scale driving patterns employs a statistical pattern recognition framework, implemented by means of feed-forward neural network utilizing models developed for recognizing, for example, four classes of driving environments, namely highway, main road, suburban traffic and city traffic, from vehicle performance data. A vehicle control application effects changes in vehicle performance aspects based on the recognized driving environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2002Publication date: September 12, 2002Inventors: Johan Engstrom, Trent Victor
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Patent number: 6351510Abstract: A nuclear power plant comprising a casing which encloses a primary space, a reactor vessel arranged in the primary space, and a reactor core provided in the reactor vessel. The plant further comprises an upper space provided above the casing. The reactor core is separated from the upper space by means of an openable cover arrangement. The casing is designed in such a manner that the primary space is completely closed against the environment to at least the level corresponding to the most highly located part of the reactor core. The upper space is arranged to house a volume of a liquid sufficiently large to permit the filling of the primary space with the liquid to a level located above the most highly located part of the reactor core.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1999Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: ABB Atom ABInventors: Ulf Bredolt, Johan Engström, Bengt Ivung
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Patent number: 6325889Abstract: A new and improved way of continuously cooking fiber material, wherein temperatures and alkaline levels are controlled to be maintained within specific levels in different zones of the digesting process in order to optimize chemical consumption and heat-economy and at the same time achieve very good pulp properties. The digesting process includes a top separator that separates the transport liquid from the fiber material and permits the fiber material to be exposed to the cooking liquid.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2000Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Kvaerner Pulping ABInventors: Vidar Snekkenes, Johan Engström, Sven-Erik Ohlsson, Per Nyström, Sören Söderqvist, Björn Karlsson
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Publication number: 20010037865Abstract: A new and improved way of continuously cooking fiber material, wherein temperatures and alkaline levels are controlled to be maintained within specific levels in different zones of the digesting process in order to optimize chemical consumption and heat-economy and at the same time achieve very good pulp properties. The digesting process includes a top separator that separates the transport liquid from the fiber material and permits the fiber material to be exposed to the cooking liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2000Publication date: November 8, 2001Applicant: Kvaerner Pulping ABInventors: Vidar Snekkenes, Johan Engstrom, Sven-Erik Ohlsson, Per Nystrom, Soren Soderqvist, Bjorn Karlsson
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Patent number: 6285727Abstract: A nuclear reactor plant with a light water reactor comprises a containment (1) having an upper space (2) and a lower space (3). The lower space is separated from the upper space by a separating member (4) and arranged to house a cooling medium (16). Furthermore, the plant comprises a reactor vessel (9) housing a reactor core (10) and provided in the upper space (2). The separating member (4) comprises a portion (7) which is arranged to be located at such a position that the surface portion (7) facing the lower space (3) is in contact with the cooling medium (16). The reactor vessel is provided above the portion (7).Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1999Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: ABB Atom ABInventors: Ulf Bredolt, Johan Engström, Bengt Ivung
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Patent number: 6280567Abstract: The invention relates to a process system and a method for preliminary treatment of disintegrated cellulose-containing material, preferably wood chips, prior to pulp digestion. The process system and the method according to the invention make use of a process vessel intended to function both as a so-called chip bin and as a pre-impregnation vessel. The characteristics of the invention are that a sloping steaming vessel is arranged downstream of the process vessel for the purpose of separating an excess of pre-impregnation liquid from the pre-impregnated cellulose-containing material, that the sloping steaming vessel is arranged for supplying steaming vapor which preferably has been generated by flashing of extraction liquor from a pulp digester, and that the sloping steaming vessel is connected to a chip chute communicating with a condenser for connection to a system for managing foul-smelling process gases.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2000Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Kvaerner Pulping ABInventors: Lennart Gustavsson, Johan Engstrom, Vidar Snekkenes
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Patent number: 6203662Abstract: This invention relates to a new and improved way of continuously cooking fiber material, wherein temperatures and alkaline levels are controlled to be maintained within specific levels in different zones of the digesting process in order to optimize chemical consumption and heat-economy, and, at the same time, achieving very good pulp properties.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1998Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Kvaerner Pulping ABInventors: Vidar Snekkenes, Johan Engström, Krister Olsson, Mikael Lindström, Christofer Lindgren, Sören Gustavsson
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Patent number: 6171494Abstract: A new and improved way of continuously cooking fiber material, wherein temperatures and alkaline levels are controlled to be maintained within specific levels in different zones of the digesting process in order to optimize chemical consumption and heat-economy and at the same time achieve very good pulp properties. The digesting process includes a top separator that separates the transport liquid from the fiber material and permits the fiber material to be exposed to the cooking liquid.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1998Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: Kvaener Pulping ABInventors: Vidar Snekkenes, Johan Engström, Sven-Erik Ohlsson, Per Nyström, Sören Söderqvist, Björn Karlsson
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Patent number: 6159336Abstract: This invention relates to a new and improved way of continuously cooking fiber material, wherein temperatures and alkaline levels are controlled to be maintained within specific levels in different zones of the digesting process in order to optimize chemical consumption and heat-economy, and, at the same time, achieving very good pulp properties.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1997Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Kvaerner Pulping ABInventors: Johan Engstrom, Vidar Snekkenes, Krister Olsson, Mikael Lindstrom, Christofer Lindgren, Soren Gustavsson
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Patent number: 6123807Abstract: This invention relates to a new and improved way of continuously cooking fiber material, wherein temperatures and alkaline levels are controlled to be maintained within specific levels in different zones of the digesting process in order to optimize chemical consumption and heat-economy and at the same time achieve very good pulp properties.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1997Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Kvaerner Pulping ABInventors: Johan Engstrom, Vidar Snekkenes, Krister Olsson, Soren Gustavsson, Christofer Lindgren, Mikael Lindstrom
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Patent number: 6103058Abstract: This invention relates to a new and improved way of continuously cooking fiber material in an over loaded digester, wherein temperatures and alkaline levels are controlled to be maintained within specific levels in different zones of the digesting process in order to optimize chemical consumption and heat economy and, at the same time, to achieve very good pulp properties.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1998Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Kvaerner Pulping ABInventor: Johan Engstrom
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Patent number: 6063238Abstract: The present invention relates to a digester and a method for continuously cooking kraft pulp in a single-vessel system (1), preferably a single-vessel hydraulic digester, with chips (2) being fed in at a first end (3) of the digester (1), white liquor (4) being added at at least one position at or near the said first end (3), the chips being impregnated in a cocurrent impregnation zone (5), the chips being cooked in a cooking zone (6) downstream of the impregnation zone, hot black liquor (7) being extracted from at least one extraction strainer section (8), and cooked pulp being discharged (9) at the other end of the digester, and hot black liquor (7) being added (11), (12) to the said impregnation zone (5), and the extract (13) from the first strainer section (14), which is arranged downstream of the position of addition (11a) of the said hot black liquor (7), being largely removed from the digester.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1998Date of Patent: May 16, 2000Assignee: Kvaerner Pulping ABInventors: Anders Bergqvist, Johan Engstrom
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Patent number: 6054019Abstract: A method for cooking chips which are impregnated, in a vessel (3), with liquid in first and second concurrent impregnation zones (A, B), impregnation liquid being supplied, in a mixture with steamed chips, through a feeding system to the first impregnation zone, and liquid for recovery being extracted at a first point (41) at the end of the first impregnation zone, and further liquid being supplied to the second impregnation zone (B). According to the invention, liquid is extracted at a second point (43) at the start of the second impregnation zone (B) and is circulated in an impregnation circulation (44, 45) which empties out at the center of the vessel at a point between the first and second points (41, 43) for extraction of liquid so that a flow of liquid is established from the center of the vessel in a radial direction. The further liquid is supplied to the impregnation circulation for continued impregnation of the chips in the second impregnation zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1997Date of Patent: April 25, 2000Assignee: Kvaerner Pulping ABInventors: Johan Engstrom, Olav Hoglund
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Patent number: 5925216Abstract: The present invention provides a method for continuously cooking kraft pulp in a digester having the steps of:feeding chips into an inlet of a digester;supplying black liquor to an impregnation zone of the digester in an amount such that the black liquor makes up greater than 40% by volume of the total volume of liquid present in the impregnation zone;extracting liquor from a screen girdle downstream of where the black liquor is added to the digester, in the direction the wood chips flow through the digester, in an amount greater than 50% by volume of the total volume of liquor present at the location of the screen girdle;maintaining a liquor:wood ratio in the impregnation zone of greater than 3:1; anddischarging cooked pulp from the digester.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1997Date of Patent: July 20, 1999Assignee: Kvaerner Pulping ABInventors: Anders Bergqvist, Johan Engstrom