Patents by Inventor Peter TUULIAINEN

Peter TUULIAINEN 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).

  • Publication number: 20240246652
    Abstract: A drive unit for propulsion and trim control of a marine vessel. The drive unit extends in use from the vessel along a vertical axis to a base plane normal to the vertical axis, and spanned by orthogonal longitudinal and lateral axes. The drive unit includes a first propulsion unit and a second propulsion unit arranged separated along the lateral axis and intersected by the base plane. The first propulsion unit and the second propulsion unit are jointly rotatable about the vertical axis, where the first propulsion unit and the second propulsion unit are individually rotatable about the lateral axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Volvo Penta Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Tuuliainen, Anders Bergkvist
  • Publication number: 20240246645
    Abstract: A marine vessel comprising a hull, a control unit, a hydrofoiling arrangement, and a motion sensor system. The motion sensor system includes a radar transceiver control unit and at least one radar transceiver arranged to transmit a radar signal in a boresight direction pointing at the sea surface, where the radar transceiver control unit is arranged to determine at least a current heave of the hull relative to the water surface based on radar backscatter from the sea surface. The control unit is arranged to control the hydrofoiling arrangement to reduce a difference between the current heave of the hull and a desired heave of the hull.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: VOLVO PENTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mats RYDSTRÖM, Peter TUULIAINEN
  • Publication number: 20240248487
    Abstract: A marine vessel includes a hull, a propulsion system, a control unit and a motion sensor system. The propulsion system comprises a first drive unit and a second drive unit separated by a longitudinal midship line of the hull, where each drive unit is arranged to generate thrust in a controllable thrust elevation angle and in a controllable thrust azimuth angle, where at least the thrust elevation angles are individually controllable The control unit is arranged to estimate a pitch motion and a roll motion of the hull based on input from the motion sensor system. The control unit is arranged to suppress pitch motion and roll motion by the hull by controlling the thrust elevation angles and the thrust azimuth angles of the first and second drive units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: VOLVO PENTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mats RYDSTRÖM, Björn WESSMAN, Dennis KÖHLBERG, Peter TUULIAINEN
  • Patent number: 10919609
    Abstract: A propeller drive assembly includes a driveshaft for transferring a torque between an engine and a propeller of a water surface vessel, and a housing enclosing the driveshaft. The assembly includes, separately from the driveshaft, a first element and a second element, the first element extending through a first bore of the second element, wherein one of the first and second elements is fixed to the driveshaft and the other of the first and second elements is arranged to be stationary in relation to the housing, and the one of the first and second elements which is fixed to the driveshaft presents in the first bore a first elongated cavity forming a first helix along the first bore, so as to form with the other of the first and second elements a screw pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: AB VOLVO PENTA
    Inventor: Peter Tuuliainen
  • Publication number: 20190054991
    Abstract: A propeller drive assembly includes a driveshaft for transferring a torque between an engine and a propeller of a water surface vessel, and a housing enclosing the driveshaft. The assembly includes, separately from the driveshaft, a first element and a second element, the first element extending through a first bore of the second element, wherein one of the first and second elements is fixed to the driveshaft and the other of the first and second elements is arranged to be stationary in relation to the housing, and the one of the first and second elements which is fixed to the driveshaft presents in the first bore a first elongated cavity forming a first helix along the first bore, so as to form with the other of the first and second elements a screw pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: AB VOLVO PENTA
    Inventor: Peter TUULIAINEN