Patents by Inventor Markus Samuli Nuopponen

Markus Samuli Nuopponen 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).

  • Method for fabricating fiber products and composites
    Patent number: 9534320
    Abstract: Method for fabricating fiber and film products and composites includes: introducing an aqueous gel of nanofibrillar cellulose into a volume of organic extraction agent miscible with water so that the aqueous gel is kept as a separate phase and forms one or several discrete physical entities containing the nanofibrillar cellulose within the phase; changing water with the organic extraction agent in said one or several discrete physical entities of nanofibrillar cellulose; and drying the nanofibrillar cellulose by removing the organic extraction agent from the one or several discrete physical entities of nanofibrillar cellulose. In the method the aqueous gel of nanofibrillar cellulose is introduced into the volume of organic extraction agent in the form of one or several elongated elements which form a fiber-like or ribbon-like or film-like product after drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: UPM-KYMMENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Antti Laukkanen, Jan-Erik Teirfolk, Markus Samuli Nuopponen, Andreas Walther, Olli Ikkala
  • METHOD FOR FABRICATING FIBER PRODUCTS AND COMPOSITES
    Publication number: 20140058077
    Abstract: Method for fabricating fiber and film products and composites includes: introducing an aqueous gel of nanofibrillar cellulose into a volume of organic extraction agent miscible with water so that the aqueous gel is kept as a separate phase and forms one or several discrete physical entities containing the nanofibrillar cellulose within the phase; changing water with the organic extraction agent in said one or several discrete physical entities of nanofibrillar cellulose; and drying the nanofibrillar cellulose by removing the organic extraction agent from the one or several discrete physical entities of nanofibrillar cellulose. In the method the aqueous gel of nanofibrillar cellulose is introduced into the volume of organic extraction agent in the form of one or several elongated elements which form a fiber-like or ribbon-like or film-like product after drying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: UPM-KYMMENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Antti Laukkanen, Jan-Erik Teirfolk, Markus Samuli Nuopponen, Andreas Walther, Olli Ikkala