Patents by Inventor Pekka Salminen

Pekka Salminen 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: 10793738
    Abstract: The instant invention is a coating composition, a coated article, and method forming such coated articles. The coating composition comprises (a) a dispersion; and (b) a crosslinker. The dispersion comprises at least one or more base polymers selected from the group consisting of an ethylene-based thermoplastic polymer, a propylene-based thermoplastic polymer, and mixtures thereof; at least one or more stabilizing agents; and a fluid medium. The crosslinker may, for example, be zinc ammonium carbonate. A coated article comprises a substrate comprising cellulosic materials; and at least one or more coating layers present on at least one or more surfaces of the substrate. The one or more coating layers may be derived from a coating composition comprising (a) a dispersion; and (b) a crosslinker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jamel F. Attal, Jouko Vyorykka, Pekka Salminen
  • Patent number: 8715465
    Abstract: A process for making paper, comprising contacting an anionic binder with a cationizing agent to make a cationized binder, contacting the cationized binder with an anionic pigment to form a binder/pigment agglomerate, contacting the agglomerate with an aqueous slurry of fibers, and forming a paper product from the slurry. The agglomerate may reduce the total cost of the paper product being produced while maintaining the strength of the paper at acceptable levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Styron Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Jouko Vyorykka, Pekka Salminen, Jonathan Budd
  • Publication number: 20120028016
    Abstract: The instant invention is a multilayer structure, and a process for making a multilayer structure. The multilayer structure includes (a) a first layer comprising one or more primary layers, wherein the first layer has a thickness in the range of less than 1 cm,—(b) a second layer comprising one or more secondary layers derived from one or more polyolefin dispersions, wherein the one or more secondary layers have a thickness in the range of less than 15 ?m; and (c) a third layer comprising one or more tertiary layers having a thickness in the range of less than 150 ?m. The second layer is disposed therebetween the first layer and the third layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Karl Zuercher, Jouko Vyorykka, Bernard Fehr, Ronald Wevers, Pekka Salminen, Alexander Hipp
  • Publication number: 20110315333
    Abstract: A process for making paper, comprising contacting an anionic binder with a cationizing agent to make a cationized binder, contacting the cationized binder with an anionic pigment to form a binder/pigment agglomerate, contacting the agglomerate with an aqueous slurry of fibers, and forming a paper product from the slurry. The agglomerate may reduce the total cost of the paper product being produced while maintaining the strength of the paper at acceptable levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Jouko Vyorykka, Pekka Salminen, Jonathan Budd
  • Publication number: 20100279113
    Abstract: The instant invention is a coating composition, a coated article, and method forming such coated articles. The coating composition comprises (a) a dispersion; and (b) a crosslinker. The dispersion comprises at least one or more base polymers selected from the group consisting of an ethylene-based thermoplastic polymer, a propylene-based thermoplastic polymer, and mixtures thereof; at least one or more stabilizing agents; and a fluid medium. The crosslinker may, for example, be zinc ammonium carbonate. A coated article comprises a substrate comprising cellulosic materials; and at least one or more coating layers present on at least one or more surfaces of the substrate. The one or more coating layers may be derived from a coating composition comprising (a) a dispersion; and (b) a crosslinker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Jamel F. Attal, Jouko Vyorykka, Pekka Salminen
  • Patent number: 7231989
    Abstract: A method and a control system for controlling rock drilling. A control unit of a rock drilling apparatus is provided with one or more control modes, each determining the drilling variables to be measured, their threshold values and the operating principles according to which the operating parameters of drilling are controlled to achieve a desired control criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: Sandvik Tamrock Oy
    Inventors: Pekka Salminen, Heikki Saha
  • Patent number: 7032684
    Abstract: A rock drill includes a string of components interconnected by screw threads and connected to a shank. A percussion piston is reciprocated against the shank during a drilling operation, while a support device applies axial support to the rear of the shank, to enhance the drilling action. When the components are being unscrewed, the percussion piston is actuated to strike the rear end of the drill string, after the support device has at least partially released the axial support of the shank, to enable tensile stress to be generated in the components by the percussive impacts to facilitate unscrewing of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Timo Muuttonen, Pekka Salminen
  • Patent number: 6957707
    Abstract: A method and a computer program for controlling a drilling cycle in a rock drilling apparatus, and a rock drilling apparatus. In accordance with the invention, each drilling unit in the rock drilling apparatus is monitored during a drilling period, and a drilling sequence of a control unit in the rock drilling apparatus is updated at predetermined intervals during the drilling period. The total time of the drilling and the time elapsed for different operations can be registered. In addition, according to an embodiment, the drilling sequence is changed during updating, if changes occur in the drilling conditions during the drilling period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Sandvik Intellectual Property AB
    Inventors: Pertti Koivunen, Pekka Salminen
  • Publication number: 20050039871
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method of producing a coated paper or paperboard, but excluding photographic papers, comprising the steps of: (a) forming a free flowing curtain comprising at least one layer, whereby the composition forming at least one layer of the free flowing curtain has a high shear viscosity of at least about 50 mPa.s, and (b) contacting the curtain with a continuous web substrate of basepaper and paperboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Urscheler, Pekka Salminen, Jamel Attai, John Roper
  • Publication number: 20040216922
    Abstract: A method and a computer program for controlling a drilling cycle in a rock drilling apparatus, and a rock drilling apparatus. In accordance with the invention, each drilling unit in the rock drilling apparatus is monitored during a drilling period, and a drilling sequence of a control unit in the rock drilling apparatus is updated at predetermined intervals during the drilling period. The total time of the drilling and the time elapsed for different operations can be registered. In addition, according to an embodiment, the drilling sequence is changed during updating, if changes occur in the drilling conditions during the drilling period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Applicant: SANDVIK TAMROCK OY
    Inventors: Pertti Koivunen, Pekka Salminen
  • Publication number: 20040140112
    Abstract: A method and a control system for controlling rock drilling. A control unit (10) of a rock drilling apparatus is provided with one or more control modes (M1-M4), each determining the drilling variables to be measured, their threshold values and the operating principles according to which the operating parameters of drilling are controlled to achieve a desired control criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Applicant: Sandvik Tamrock OY
    Inventors: Pekka Salminen, Heikki Saha
  • Publication number: 20030155140
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of opening joints of drilling components attached to a rock drill, and to a rock drill which enabling this. According to the idea of the invention, in striking compression stress, which proceeds towards a drill bit (10), is generated in the drilling equipment (5) by striking with a percussion piston. When the drilling components are struck off, the axial bearing included in the drilling machine does not substantially support the drilling equipment, but the compression stress generated by striking is reflected from the drill bit (10) as stress of the opposite sign and generates the desired tensile stress in the drilling equipment. After striking the threaded joints of the drilling components can be opened easier by rotating the rotating device in the opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Timo Muuttonen, Pekka Salminen
  • Patent number: 6186246
    Abstract: A method for adjusting percussion pressure and a drilling machine. In the method the percussion power of a drilling machine is adjusted by moving a shank in the longitudinal direction of the drilling machine forwards when a smaller percussion power is to be transferred from the percussion piston to the shank. The drilling machine comprises at least two groups of pistons moving in the axial direction of the drilling machine, the pistons being connected to act on the shank by means of a pressure medium acting behind the pistons towards the front end of the drilling machine. The drilling machine comprises at least two separate groups of pistons whose travel with respect to one another is different and where pressure medium channels separate from one another lead to the cylinder spaces of both piston groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Tamrock Oy
    Inventors: Timo Muuttonen, Aimo Helin, Timo Kiikka, Jorma Mäki, Pekka Salminen