Patents by Inventor Jorma K. Miettinen

Jorma K. Miettinen 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: 4632778
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a procedure for transforming radioactive wastes into ceramics. From the radioactive waste solution, the waste is bound to an inorganic ion exchanger either with batch equilibration or in columns. After the waste has been bound to the ion exchanger, it is transformed into ceramics by admixing it to tile clay or to another ceramizing material and by firing the mixture to a tile. This yields an extremely low soluble and mechanically durable ultimate disposal product of the nuclear waste. The ceramizing procedure is applicable with any inorganic ion exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Assignee: Imatran Voima Oy
    Inventors: Jukka K. Lehto, Jorma K. Miettinen, Olli Heinonen
  • Patent number: 4518550
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing rigid frame building elements filled with hard foam plastic, said method comprising the use of prefabricated, rigid, dimensionally stable, hollow skeleton frames, the hollow interior spaces of said skeleton frames are foamed and filled with closed cell hard foam plastic serving as heat insulation, and the elements are subjected in a press to compression pressure which overrules the foaming pressured exerted on the frame of an element from inside. For continuous-action manufacture, the used press is a (known as such on the basis of size presses) continuous-action press machine whose lower frame is equipped with lower conveyor means (4) and upper frame with upper conveyor means (5), said conveyor means confining between themselves a conveying gap, in which the passing elements are maintained subjected to compression pressure by means of pressure members (7) carried by said conveyor means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Makrotalo Oy
    Inventors: Jorma K. Miettinen, Eero J. Virtanen