Patents by Inventor Lars Gustavsson

Lars Gustavsson 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: 8274599
    Abstract: Digital miniature cameras and methods to manufacture thereof have been achieved. Said miniature cameras having an adjustable focusing device are intended to be used as a built-in modules in hand-held consumer electronic devices, such as e.g. mobile phones and PDAs. The cameras invented have a very small size and produce high-quality pictures. Glue is used to hold different parts together and to seal the joints. The lens is glued in the final stage of the manufacturing line, thus providing the focus setting and the sealing of the cavity that covers the image sensor. A glob top is used to cover and seal the image processor. Said glob top serves two different purposes, first, to distribute the heat away from the sensor and, second, to lock the frame, together with the lens house, into a printed circuit board. In one embodiment a cavity PCB is used to “bury” the sensor of the camera, thus reducing the overall height required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Digital Imaging Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Henrik Telander
  • Publication number: 20080273111
    Abstract: Digital miniature cameras and methods to manufacture thereof have been achieved. Said miniature cameras having an adjustable focusing device are intended to be used as a built-in modules in hand-held consumer electronic devices, such as e.g. mobile phones and PDAs. The cameras invented have a very small size and produce high-quality pictures. Glue is used to hold different parts together and to seal the joints. The lens is glued in the final stage of the manufacturing line, thus providing the focus setting and the sealing of the cavity that covers the image sensor. A glob top is used to cover and seal the image processor. Said glob top serves two different purposes, first, to distribute the heat away from the sensor and, second, to lock the frame, together with the lens house, into a printed circuit board. In one embodiment a cavity PCB is used to “bury” the sensor of the camera, thus reducing the overall height required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Henrik Telander
  • Patent number: 7405764
    Abstract: Digital miniature cameras and methods to manufacture thereof have been achieved. Said miniature cameras having an adjustable focusing device are intended to be used as a built-in modules in hand-held consumer electronic devices, such as e.g. mobile phones and PDAs. The cameras invented have a very small size and produce high-quality pictures. Glue is used to hold different parts together and to seal the joints. The lens is glued in the final stage of the manufacturing line, thus providing the focus setting and the sealing of the cavity that covers the image sensor. A glob top is used to cover and seal the image processor. Said glob top serves two different purposes, first, to distribute the heat away from the sensor and, second, to lock the frame, together with the lens house, into a printed circuit board. In one embodiment a cavity PCB is used to “bury” the sensor of the camera, thus reducing the overall height required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Digital Imaging Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Henrik Telander
  • Patent number: 7172679
    Abstract: A press device with an extended press nip for pressing of a continuous paper or paperboard web comprises a press shoe, a backing member, a support, and a plurality of loading cylinders with main axes in their longitudinal directions. The press shoe can be moved between different positions. A stop member is arranged downstream of the press shoe for transfer between and fixation at different stop positions in the machine direction. At least some of the loading cylinders or the support comprise members eccentrically arranged with respect to one or some of the main axes, which members can be brought into different eccentric positions with respect to the main axes. The eccentric position and the stop position controls the position of the press shoe during the pressing, and thereby the pressure curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Erik Brox
  • Patent number: 7158170
    Abstract: A test system and a related method to perform optical and electrical tests, to adjust the focus and to seal the lens of digital fixed-focus cameras have been achieved. Said test system is especially suited for miniature camera module to be built into consumer electronic devices as mobile phones, PDAs, etc. Said test system comprises three parts, a control system, an auto-focus head, and a XYZ robot. Said auto-focus head executes the adjustment of the focus, identifies hot pixels and black level, tests the saturation level, identifies cold pixels, tests dust particles and white, blue, red, and infrared color levels. As last step the auto-focus applies glue to fix the focused lens of the camera module. Said XYZ robot performs is moving the camera modules to be tested in XY direction and is approaching the lens system of the auto-focus head in Z direction. Said control system has interfaces to both, XYZ robot and auto-focus hand and is comprising interfaces and a frame grabber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Dialog Imaging Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Anders Johannesson, Henrik Telander
  • Publication number: 20060144545
    Abstract: A press device with an extended press nip for pressing of a continuous paper or paperboard web comprises a press shoe, a backing member, a support, and a plurality of loading cylinders with main axes in their longitudinal directions. The press shoe can be moved between different positions. A stop member is arranged downstream of the press shoe for transfer between and fixation at different stop positions in the machine direction. At least some of the loading cylinders or the support comprise members eccentrically arranged with respect to one or some of the main axes, which members can be brought into different eccentric positions with respect to the main axes. The eccentric position and the stop position controls the position of the press shoe during the pressing, and thereby the pressure curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Erik Brox
  • Publication number: 20040189862
    Abstract: Digital miniature cameras and methods to manufacture thereof have been achieved. Said miniature cameras having an adjustable focusing device are intended to be used as a built-in modules in hand-held consumer electronic devices, such as e.g. mobile phones and PDAs. The cameras invented have a very small size and produce high-quality pictures. Glue is used to hold different parts together and to seal the joints. The lens is glued in the final stage of the manufacturing line, thus providing the focus setting and the sealing of the cavity that covers the image sensor. A glob top is used to cover and seal the image processor. Said glob top serves two different purposes, first, to distribute the heat away from the sensor and, second, to lock the frame, together with the lens house, into a printed circuit board. In one embodiment a cavity PCB is used to “bury” the sensor of the camera, thus reducing the overall height required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: Dialog Semiconductor Gmbh
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Henrik Telander
  • Publication number: 20040189812
    Abstract: A test system and a related method to perform optical and electrical tests, to adjust the focus and to seal the lens of digital fixed-focus cameras have been achieved. Said test system is especially suited for miniature camera module to be built into consumer electronic devices as mobile phones, PDAs, etc. Said test system comprises three parts, a control system, an auto-focus head, and a XYZ robot. Said auto-focus head executes the adjustment of the focus, identifies hot pixels and black level, tests the saturation level, identifies cold pixels, tests dust particles and white, blue, red, and infrared color levels. As last step the auto-focus applies glue to fix the focused lens of the camera module. Said XYZ robot performs is moving the camera modules to be tested in XY direction and is approaching the lens system of the auto-focus head in Z direction. Said control system has interfaces to both, XYZ robot and auto-focus hand and is comprising interfaces and a frame grabber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: Dialog Semiconductor Gmbh
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Anders Johannesson, Henrik Telander
  • Patent number: 6402890
    Abstract: A shoe press unit comprises a support beam, a shoe element movably supported on the beam, a pressing unit arranged between the beam and the shoe element for urging the shoe element away from the beam and toward a counter element, and a flexible belt that is arranged to slide over the pressing surface of the shoe element. An oil evacuation arrangement is affixed to the shoe element proximate an upstream edge region thereof. The oil evacuation arrangement has an inlet opening located such that excess oil expelled from between the belt and the shoe element passes through the inlet opening. An evacuation duct is connected with the container for evacuating oil therefrom, and the duct is movably connected to an outlet pipe within the shoe press unit. In one embodiment, the duct is connected via a flexible bellows to a pipe fixed to the outlet pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Metso Paper Karlstad AB
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Mattias Alsing, Sven-Ove Andersson
  • Publication number: 20020060051
    Abstract: A shoe press unit comprises a support beam, a shoe element movably supported on the beam, a pressing unit arranged between the beam and the shoe element for urging the shoe element away from the beam and toward a counter element, and a flexible belt that is arranged to slide over the pressing surface of the shoe element. An oil evacuation arrangement is affixed to the shoe element proximate an upstream edge region thereof. The oil evacuation arrangement has an inlet opening located such that excess oil expelled from between the belt and the shoe element passes through the inlet opening. An evacuation duct is connected with the container for evacuating oil therefrom, and the duct is movably connected to an outlet pipe within the shoe press unit. In one embodiment, the duct is connected via a flexible bellows to a pipe fixed to the outlet pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Applicant: VALMET-KARLSTAD AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Mattias Alsing, Sven-Ove Andersson
  • Patent number: 6355143
    Abstract: A shoe press unit comprises a support beam, a shoe element movably supported on the beam, a pressing unit arranged between the beam and the shoe element for urging the shoe element away from the beam and toward a counter element, and a flexible belt that is arranged to slide over the pressing surface of the shoe element. An oil evacuation arrangement formed separately from the shoe element is affixed to the shoe element proximate an upstream edge region thereof. The oil evacuation arrangement has an inlet opening located such that a major portion of the excess oil expelled from between the belt and the shoe element passes through the inlet opening with a kinetic energy that is substantially undiminished from the initial kinetic energy of the oil as it exits from between the belt and the pressing surface of the shoe element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Valmet-Karlstad AB
    Inventors: Malin Kilian, Lars Gustavsson, Jonas Eriksson, Jorma Snellman, Antti Ilmarinen, Erik Brox, Christer Malmros
  • Patent number: 6159342
    Abstract: A shoe press for a paper or board machine, comprising a press shoe and a counter roll, which between themselves form an extended nip for a paper or cardboard web and a circulated flexible belt, and a plurality of hydraulic loading cylinders which are arranged between a horizontal beam included in the frame system of the shoe press and the press shoe and adapted to press the press shoe against the counter roll, the pistons of the loading cylinders being fixedly connected to the horizontal beam. The working chambers of the loading cylinders are supplied with fluid by a common duct formed in an elongate duct member which is affixed to the beam. A vertical duct is formed in the piston of each loading cylinder and is connected to the common duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Valmet-Karlstad AB
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Erik Brox
  • Patent number: 6083352
    Abstract: A shoe press for applying pressure to a moving web of paper or the like includes a press shoe extending along a full width of the web being carried through a nip defined between the shoe and a backing member, a support for the shoe, and a plurality of articulated hydraulic loading cylinders arranged between the support and the shoe for urging the shoe toward the backing member to apply pressure to the web. Each loading cylinder includes a single piston and first and second cylinders attached to the shoe and to the support, respectively. The opposite end portions of the piston are slidably received within the cylinders so as to define working chambers in the cylinders which are pressurizable by hydraulic fluid for urging the two cylinders away from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Valmet Corporation
    Inventors: Jorma Snellman, Erik Brox, Lars Gustavsson, Juha Mikko Tapani Kivimaa
  • Patent number: 5997696
    Abstract: A shoe press for a paper or board machine, comprising a press shoe and a counter roll which between themselves form an extended nip for a paper or cardboard web and a circulated flexible belt, and at least one loading cylinder which is arranged between a supporting beam included in the frame system of the shoe press and the press shoe and adapted to press the press shoe against the counter roll. The press shoe is arranged on top of the loading cylinder and there is a device for releasably securing the loading cylinder on the supporting beam. With the aid of eccentric means arranged on upstream and downstream sides of the loading cylinder or cylinders, each loading cylinder is positionable in multiple locations in the machine direction for regulating the pressure profile of the shoe press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Valmet-Karlstad AB
    Inventors: Lars Gustavsson, Erik Brox
  • Patent number: 5904813
    Abstract: A press roll intended, together with a press shoe, to cooperate with a counter roll to form a press with long nip for paper or board machines, said press roll comprising two end walls, a jacket, the edge portions of which are secured by an elastic clamping ring to peripheral parts of the end walls, a form-stable clamping ring being screwed to the inner side of the end-wall part to clamp the outwardly expandable elastic clamping ring so that the edge portion of the jacket is clamped firmly against a counter-support member. According to the invention each end wall includes guide means to provide a guided engagement relationship between the form-stable clamping ring and the end-wall part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Valmet-Karlstad AB
    Inventors: Roland Bengtsson, Lars Gustavsson, Carl-Gustaf Salomonsson, Nils-Erik Safman, Kenth Tornqvist
  • Patent number: 5027576
    Abstract: An arrangement for sealing an opening in a roof deck by mounting a baffle plate in the roof deck so as to provide a throughgoing ducting channel, the roof deck having at least one raised seam joint intersecting the opening, the baffle plate being dimensioned such that it extends beyond the periphery of the opening in substantially all directions thereby defining a zone of overlap which extends around substantially the entire periphery of the opening, the arrangement including a capping member for capping and sealing the area where the baffle plate, the raised seam joint and the opening converge, a backing and stiffening member for being positioned on the opposite surface of the roof deck from the baffle plate and at least partially within the zone of overlap, and a fastening device for extending through and securing together the capping member, the baffle plate, the roof deck and the backing and stiffening member within the zone of overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Dobel BYGG AB
    Inventor: Lars A. Gustavsson