Patents by Inventor Roope Takala
Roope Takala 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).
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Publication number: 20230151520Abstract: A device for manufacturing a weave, including a winder for reeling the manufactured weave to a rotating reel, wire spools arranged to release longitudinal wires to said winder, a wire spool carrier comprising a wheel and a slit extending through the wheel from a centre of the wire spool carrier to the circumference, an additional wire spool releasably attached to the wire spool carrier and arranged to release a crossing wire, and an actuator configured to move the wire spool carrier between the longitudinal wires such that the additional wire spool in turns moves to each longitudinal wire to a position where the respective longitudinal wire is located in said slit at which stage the wheel rotates around said respective longitudinal wire before moving towards a following longitudinal wire in such way that a predetermined path of the crossing wire from the additional wire spool forms the weave with the longitudinal wires from the wire spools.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Matti HELIÖ, Perttu YLI-OPAS, Jaakko LAITINEN, Roope TAKALA
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Publication number: 20230037400Abstract: A thruster assembly, including a switch connected to a power source, a thruster, a propellant tank for storing and pressurising a propellant, and a propellant channel for guiding the propellant to the thruster. The thruster includes a space for receiving the propellant from the propellant channel, an electrically controlled heating element, a thruster body having a first thermal expansion coefficient, a valve component having a second thermal expansion coefficient, which is different than the first thermal expansion coefficient, inside the thruster body, and a nozzle, wherein the valve component includes a sealing surface closing the nozzle in a first temperature, and the electrically controlled heating element in response to actuation of the switch heats said thruster to a second temperature where the thermal expansion of the thruster opens the nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Pihla PIETIKÄINEN, Jaakko LAITINEN, Perttu YLI-OPAS, Vili VILENIUS, Roope TAKALA, Pyry PEITSO, Janne SIEVINEN
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Patent number: 9317124Abstract: A method and system for invoking an operation of a communication terminal in response to registering and interpreting a predetermined motion or pattern of an object. An input is received, the image data of the object is captured and the object in the image data is identified.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Wang Kongqiao, Roope Takala, Yikai Fang, Hanqing Lu, Qingshan Liu
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Patent number: 8388346Abstract: For providing a tactile feedback to a user of a device, textual or graphical information is converted into instructions for a sequence of pulses representing the information. An actuator is then caused to move at least a part of a display according to the obtained instructions.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2008Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Jussi Rantala, Roope Raisamo, Jani Lylykangas, Toni Pakkanen, Arto Hippula, Jukka Raisamo, Veikko Surakka, Katri Salminen, Roope Takala
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Publication number: 20100055651Abstract: For providing a tactile feedback to a user of a device, textual or graphical information is converted into instructions for a sequence of pulses representing the information. An actuator is then caused to move at least a part of a display according to the obtained instructions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2008Publication date: March 4, 2010Inventors: Jussi Rantala, Roope Raisamo, Jani Lylykangas, Toni Pakkanen, Arto Hippula, Jukka Raisamo, Veikko Surakka, Katri Salminen, Roope Takala
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Publication number: 20080251364Abstract: A user input system for an electronic device including an input actuator adapted to be depressed by a user to input a signal into the electronic device; and an actuator location signaling system adapted to signal location of the input actuator to the user. The actuator location signaling system includes a textured surface proximate the input actuator for a finger of the user to contact, and a system for moving the textured surface to enhance sensory input to the user's finger while contacting the textured surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Roope Takala, Rhys Newman, Rachael Sleight, Maree Park, Andrew Gartrell
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Publication number: 20080244465Abstract: A method and system for invoking an operation of a communication terminal in response to registering and interpreting a predetermined motion or pattern of an object. An input is received, the image data of the object is captured and the object in the image data is identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2006Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Wang Kongqiao, Roope Takala, Yikai Fang, Hanqing Lu, Qingshan Liu
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Patent number: 7200009Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a electromechanical structure comprising an input device and a printed wired board (3, 4), which structure is advantageous in terms of manufacturing and offers freedom to the layout design of the printed wired board, the user interface as well as the appearance of the device itself. It is also an object of the invention to provide a electromechanical structure that is compact and facilitates the customizability and upgradability with a new electronic functionality without any need for modifications to the main electronics of the device. This is achieved by integrating the electromechanical assembly with the mechanical cover part of the electronic device by using an injection moulding process to compose an integrated combination (113) which is detachable from the electronic device. More precisely the objects of the invention are achieved by combining the injection mould technologies with the printing of electronic wired boards.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2003Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Katri Narhi, Roope Takala, Jari Nousiainen, Pentti Ahlgren, Pia Tanskanen
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Patent number: 7170428Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device and a method of managing a virtual keyboard of the electronic device. The device comprises a touch pad (106), a processing unit (600) and a feedback unit (612), which provides tactile feedback unit (612) for the user. The processing unit (600) is configured to determine a virtual keyboard (104) for the touch pad (106) and a tactile appearance of the keyboard (104), receive information generated by the pressing of a keyboard (104) key and identify the key that was pressed on the basis of the information. The processing unit (600) is further configured to collect information on the key presses and carry out an analysis of them, and re-determine the tactile appearance of the keyboard (104) on the basis of the collected information and the analysis carried out so as to make the keyboard more ergonomic for the user, which makes it easier to use the keyboard (104) and/or the pressing of a wrong key less likely.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2003Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Johan Himberg, Jani Mäntyjärvi, Jonna Häkkilä, Turo Keski-Jaskari, Roope Takala
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Publication number: 20050253816Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device and a method of managing a virtual keyboard of the electronic device. The device comprises a touch pad (106), a processing unit (600) and a feedback unit (612), which provides tactile feedback unit (612) for the user. The processing unit (600) is configured to determine a virtual keyboard (104) for the touch pad (106) and a tactile appearance of the keyboard (104), receive information generated by the pressing of a keyboard (104) key and identify the key that was pressed on the basis of the information. The processing unit (600) is further configured to collect information on the key presses and carry out an analysis of them, and re-determine the tactile appearance of the keyboard (104) on the basis of the collected information and the analysis carried out so as to make the keyboard more ergonomic for the user, which makes it easier to use the keyboard (104) and/or the pressing of a wrong key less likely.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2003Publication date: November 17, 2005Inventors: Johan Himberg, Jani Mantyjarvi, Jonna Hakkila, Turo Keski-Jaskari, Roope Takala
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Publication number: 20050002168Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a electromechanical structure comprising an input device and a printed wired board (3, 4), which structure is advantages in terms of manufacturing and offers freedom to the layout design of the printed wired board, the user interface as well as the appearance of the device itself. It is also an object of the invention to provide a electromechanical structure that is compact and facilitates the customizability and upgradability with a new electronic functionality without any need for modifications to the main electronics of the device. This is achieved by integrating the electromechanical assembly with the mechanical cover part of the electronic device by using an injection moulding process to compose an integrated combination (113) which is detachable from the electronic device. More precisely the objects of the invention are achieved by combining the injection mould technologies with the printing of electronic wired boards.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2003Publication date: January 6, 2005Inventors: Katri Narhi, Roope Takala, Jari Nousiainen, Pentti Ahlgren, Pia Tanskanen
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Patent number: 6788294Abstract: A device and method for implementing a key, in which a field applied to a layer comprising a material whose volume is responsive to the magnitude of field is altered at a specified position to create a key in said position; said field being one of the following: electric field, magnetic field, both of the above.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2001Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.Inventors: Roope Takala, Antti Kujala
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Patent number: 6494252Abstract: Electronics cabinet comprising an enclosure (1) with an interior space (2) where electronic parts, such as circuit cards and the like, can be mounted, and a cooling system (3) arranged as a substantially integral assembly with the enclosure in the immediate vicinity of its interior space for cooling the interior space. The cooling system (3) comprises means for internal air circulation within the interior space, for conveying an external air circulation separated from the internal air circulation into and out of the cooling system and for cooling the air in the internal circulation. The means for conveying the internal and/or external air circulation comprise a body (4) made from a foamed material with a flow channel (5, 6, 7) formed in it, through which at least part of the internal and/or external air circulation is passed.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2000Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: Nokia Networks OyInventors: Roope Takala, Petri Uusitalo, Malcolm Perry
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Publication number: 20010040558Abstract: A device and method for implementing a key, in which a field applied to a layer comprising a material whose volume is responsive to the magnitude of field is altered (53) at a specified position to create a key in said position; said field being one of the following: electric field, magnetic field, both of the above.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2001Publication date: November 15, 2001Inventors: Roope Takala, Antii Kujala