Patents by Inventor Juha S. Kinnunen

Juha S. Kinnunen 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: 7045036
    Abstract: A method and assembly is disclosed for manufacturing a sized web of paper or paperboard, the method comprising the steps of first forming the web at a headbox (1) from a stock comprising at least water and fiber, then pressing the web for water drainage, and finally drying the web by heating. Size furnish is added to the web so that at least a portion of the overall amount of size is added to the web prior to initiating the drying of the web by heating, and at least a portion of the overall amount of size is applied to the web after initiating the drying of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Juha Lipponen, Johan Grön, Sami Anttilainen, Juha S. Kinnunen
  • Publication number: 20040177939
    Abstract: A method and assembly is disclosed for manufacturing a sized web of paper or paperboard, the method comprising the steps of first forming the web at a headbox (1) from a stock comprising at least water and fiber, then pressing the web for water drainage, and finally drying the web by heating. Size furnish is added to the web so that at least a portion of the overall amount of size is added to the web prior to initiating the drying of the web by heating, and at least a portion of the overall amount of size is applied to the web after initiating the drying of the web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Juha Lipponen, Johan Gron, Sami Anttilainen, Juha S. Kinnunen
  • Publication number: 20040026054
    Abstract: A surface-sized paper web is made by supplying pulp from a headbox (100) where additives and/or fillers and/or fines are admixed into the pulp, to the wire section (200), where water is removed. The web is guided from the wire section (200), to the press section (300), the front drying section (400), is surface-coated in the coating section (500) dried in the post-drying section (600), and reeled by a reeler (800). In the headbox (100) starch and optionally hydrofobic size are admixed or layered into the pulp, so that on at least one side of the web an essentially dense surface is formed, on which in surface-coating a coating paste is spread out, which has a high dry matter content, whereby a bond is achieved in direction z inside the web in between the base paper and the surface-coating layer spread out on the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Erkki Ilmoniemi, Juha S Kinnunen, Juha Lipponen
  • Patent number: 6562196
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for optimizing the degree of flocculation in a headbox. The degree of flocculation is measured continuously from a stock flow (M1)/stock flows by means of a detector (R1) of flocculation, and the detector (R1) transmits a signal to a regulator (H1), which regulates the metering of retention agent (10) and/or fillers (11) and/or auxiliary chemicals (12) into the stock flow (M1)/stock flows continuously on the basis of the signal to an optimal level, which stock flow/flows is/are passed into the headbox (P1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Jyrki Huovila, Juha S. Kinnunen, Hannu Korhonen, Mari Taipale, Ari Puurtinen, Pekka Pakarinen
  • Patent number: 6413371
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for manufacture of paper, most appropriately for porous paper for color powder printing. In the method paper is manufactured by means of a paper machine. In the method the paper stock is fed out of the headbox (100) into the wire part (200), in which wire part (200) water is drained out of the paper web in both directions. In the method the paper web (W) is passed from the wire part (200) into the press section (300) in order to press water out of the paper web (W), and after the press section (300), the paper web (W) is dried in the dryer section (400) and coated/pigmented in the coating section (500), dried in an after-dryer section (600) and calendered in a calender (600), and reeled in a reel-up (800).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Pasi Ahonen, Juha S. Kinnunen, Mari Taipale, Pirkko-Leena Aarnikoivu