Patents by Inventor Raimo Ahola

Raimo Ahola 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: 5613442
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement and method for measuring and correcting the line of a track. The method comprises forming an optical reference beam between an emitter on an emitter bogie and a position-sensitive receiver on a measuring and correcting car, moving the measuring and correcting car for a measurement interval in sequences of a desired length towards the emitter bogie, monitoring the movement of the hitting point of the optical beam by the position-sensitive receiver, measuring lateral inclination of the track, positioning the position-sensitive receiver in relation to the track between the sequences of moving, and measuring the instantaneous values of the position of the hitting point of the optical beam and the inclination of the track, and using the measurement data for the shifting operations directed to the track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Noptel Oy
    Inventors: Raimo Ahola, Matti Tervaskanto
  • Patent number: 4640514
    Abstract: Designs of prior art art not usable in efficient dry-run target practice with hand firearms. The greatest drawbacks are, for instance, that it is not possible by the method to monitor the result of the dry-run training; that the method or means is not liable on ordinary guns without special measures or not at all or the method is so complicated that its implementation in practice causes that the means is too expensive to be in the personal possession and use of shooters. In order to eliminate said drawbacks, the invention is mainly characterized in that by a transmitter/receiver means attachable to conventional arms is emitted an optical beam towards a surface serving as the target which is set off from its surroundings due to its optic radiation reflecting properties relative to those of its surroundings, the hitting or missing of the beam being observed with the receiver on the basis of the return beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Noptel Ky
    Inventors: Risto Myllyla, Harri Kopola, Juha Kostamovaara, Raimo Ahola
  • Patent number: 4637727
    Abstract: A procedure for analyzing the reciprocating motion of a given object or its motion component transversal to the object's direction of travel, based on the passage time of electromagnetic radiation in the optical range and wherein by a light source, such as a laser or photodiode, a periodic light beam is directed on the object. The change of the passage times of light pulses that have travelled to the object and been reflected back therefrom, in relation to a given reference value, is transformed into an analog voltage proportional to the change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Inventors: Raimo Ahola, Risto Myllyla
  • Patent number: 4553943
    Abstract: An optic method for shooting practice in which a narrow light beam is used instead of a bullet. The light beam is provided by a light transmitter (2) of a visible or infrared area attachable to a gun, the ray transmitted by which transmitter is observed with a spot-sensitive optic detector (5, 6) from which is received continuous position information during aiming and discharging as well as, when desired, also the hit and the direction at the discharge instant (9). (FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1985
    Assignee: Noptel Ky
    Inventors: Raimo Ahola, Harri Kopola, Risto Myllyla