Patents by Inventor Mikko Tahkapaa

Mikko Tahkapaa 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: 7500553
    Abstract: A belt conveyor for transferring a web threading tail in a web manufacturing machine has a frame construction (15) and a belt loop (20), which is arranged around rolls (16, 17). The belt conveyor has adjustment elements (21) for changing the relative position of the rolls (16, 17). The adjustment elements (21) include transfer elements (22), which are arranged in connection with both edges of the frame construction (15). The adjustment elements (21) act in mutual co-operation for moving the roll (17) by operating the transfer elements (22) from one side of the frame construction (15). A belt loop for the belt conveyor for a web threading tail in a web manufacturing machine is readily changed from one side of the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Bob McGarrigle, Mikko Tähkäpää, Veli-Pekka Koljonen, Mikael Junttonen, Matti Lehtonen
  • Patent number: 7164958
    Abstract: A modification planning arrangement and method for a paper, board, finishing, or pulp machine, which includes as parties, a customer (10), a main supplier (11) and at least one sub-supplier (12), as well as a server linked to them over a telecommunications network. Each party has terminal equipment and software for viewing an image stored in the server and for communication in a data network. The image-viewing software has a mark-up function for attaching a mark-up to an image and for storing the mark-up in the server as its own mark-up file in connection with the image. The main supplier has a high-level CAD system to make and process an original drawing. The arrangement includes conversion and management software for the original drawings (CAD), for storing the drawings in concept form (HPGL, PDF) in a server (EDMS), and includes a mark-up data updating system, for distributing automatically to all parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorma Leino, Mikko Tähkäpää, Laura Airaksinen
  • Publication number: 20060011318
    Abstract: A belt conveyor for transferring a web threading tail in a web manufacturing machine has a frame construction (15) and a belt loop (20), which is arranged around rolls (16, 17). The belt conveyor has adjustment elements (21) for changing the relative position of the rolls (16, 17). The adjustment elements (21) include transfer elements (22), which are arranged in connection with both edges of the frame construction (15). The adjustment elements (21) act in mutual co-operation for moving the roll (17) by operating the transfer elements (22) from one side of the frame construction (15). A belt loop for the belt conveyor for a web threading tail in a web manufacturing machine is readily changed from one side of the conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Publication date: January 19, 2006
    Inventors: Bob McGarrigle, Mikko Tähkäpää, Veli-Pekka Koljonen, Mikael Junttonen, Matti Lehtonen
  • Publication number: 20050160354
    Abstract: A modification planning arrangement and method for a paper, board, finishing, or pulp machine, which includes as parties, a customer (10), a main supplier (11) and at least one sub-supplier (12), as well as a server linked to them over a telecommunications network. Each party has terminal equipment and software for viewing an image stored in the server and for communication in a data network. The image-viewing software has a mark-up function for attaching a mark-up to an image and for storing the mark-up in the server as its own mark-up file in connection with the image. The main supplier has a high-level CAD system to make and process an original drawing. The arrangement includes conversion and management software for the original drawings (CAD), for storing the drawings in concept form (HPGL, PDF) in a server (EDMS), and includes a mark-up data updating system, for distributing automatically to all parties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2003
    Publication date: July 21, 2005
    Inventors: Jorma Leino, Mikko Tahkapaa, Laura Airaksinen