Patents by Inventor Mari Taipale

Mari Taipale 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: 6712931
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a paper or board web in which stock is fed from a headbox (100) to a wire section (200), in which water is removed from the web (W) and from which the web (W) is passed to a press section (300), in which water is pressed out of the web (W) and after which the web (W) is dried in a dryer section (400) and reeled by means of a reel-up (800). According to the invention, additives, fillers and/or fines are fed into the stock of the surface layers of the web (W) in order to reduce the pore size distribution of the web in the surface layers so as to substantially correspond to a precoated web. The invention also relates to a paper or board machine which is characterized in that it is structured for enabling the feeding of additives, fillers and/or fines into a fiber stock such that an uncoated web substantially corresponds in its properties to a precoated web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Johan Grön, Pasi Ahonen, Juha Kinnunen, Pentti Rautiainen, Mari Taipale
  • 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