Patents by Inventor Vesa Markkanen

Vesa Markkanen 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: 7168651
    Abstract: A continuous web (W) is reeled up on a center-drive assisted reeling core (C2, C3) to form a machine reel (R), and the reeling core (C2, C3) moves when the center drive (PD, SD) is coupled to the end of the reeling core. The rotating movement and torque necessary in the center drive (PD, SD) are transmitted from a stationary drive motor (PM, DM) to the end of the reeling core (C2, C3) by a power transmission (T) equipped with one or more joints, wherein the need to move the drive motor (PM, DM) along with the movement of the reeling core (C2, C3) is avoided. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the power transmission (T) is implemented by a belt drive, wherein by selecting the belt transmission in a suitable manner, it is also possible to avoid the need to use a separate gear system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Vesa Markkanen, Kalevi Vesterinen
  • Publication number: 20040238681
    Abstract: A continuous web (W) is reeled up on a center-drive assisted reeling core (C2, C3) to form a machine reel (R), and the reeling core (C2, C3) moves when the center drive (PD, SD) is coupled to the end of the reeling core. The rotating movement and torque necessary in the center drive (PD, SD) are transmitted from a stationary drive motor (PM, SM) to the end of the reeling core (C2, C3) by a power transmission (T) equipped with one or more joints, wherein the need to move the drive motor (PM, SM) along with the movement of the reeling core (C2, C3) is avoided. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the power transmission (T) is implemented by a belt drive, wherein by selecting the belt transmission in a suitable manner, it is also possible to avoid the need to use a separate gear system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Vesa Markkanen, Kalevi Vesterinen
  • Patent number: 6145778
    Abstract: A reel-up for reeling a paper web onto reeling drums (2), comprising stand parts (5) with rails (9), along which the reeling drums (2), rotatably carried by their bearing housings (4), are displaced, a surface winding drum, over which the paper web runs and which is rotatably journalled in bearing housings (13) on the stand parts, a secondary system, and a primary system, having primary arms (24) with gripping members (33) for retaining a reeling drum (2), which primary arms have actuators (28) for moving the reeling drum (2) along the envelope surface of the surface winding drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Valmet-Karlstad AB
    Inventors: Olli Matti Tuominen, Vesa Markkanen, Raimo Pesonen, Kauko Patari, Tommy Goran Andersson, Lars-Erik Roland Onnerlov