Patents by Inventor VESA SILTANEN

VESA SILTANEN 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: 20240074365
    Abstract: There is provided maintaining, at a network service operatively connected to a logging machine, master forest resource information, wherein the master forest resource information comprises prediction cells for product yield over a work area or a set of work areas, receiving, at the network service from the logging machine, logging machine measurements associated with the work area or the set of work areas, associating, at the network service, the received logging machine measurements to at least one prediction cell of the master forest resource information, determining, at the network service, based on the received logging machine measurements, a logging machine product yield for the work area or the set of work areas, modeling, at the network service, a difference between the logging machine product yield and a product yield of the at least one prediction cell, and compensating, at the network service, product yields of prediction cells based on the modeled difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Aki PUTKONEN, Johannes KAARNAMETSÄ, Vesa SILTANEN, Vesa LEPPÄNEN
  • Publication number: 20230305589
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiment is a control surface for use in a forest machine. The control surface includes a base panel, wherein the base panel comprises multiple buttons and/or switches to be used with an operators hand. A joystick protruding from the base panel. The joystick includes a handle part. The handle part has multiple buttons and/or switches to be used with an operator's hand. The handle part has a thumb button/switch to be used by an operator's thumb. The thumb button is adjustable in the height position in relation to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Ulla Björninen, Vesa Siltanen, Sami Hörkkö
  • Patent number: 10414634
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for controlling the crane of a working machine by using boom tip control, in which method the crane comprises at least two booms connected to the working machine and each other in an articulated manner, which booms are moved in relation to the working machine and to each other by means of actuators controlled by a control system of the working machine, and in which method the direction and speed of motion of the head of the crane, controlled by the driver applying controls in the working machine, is implemented by applying speeds of the different booms of the crane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: John Deere Forestry Oy
    Inventors: Mikko Palmroth, Simo Laitinen, Vesa Siltanen, Timo Käppi
  • Publication number: 20190213691
    Abstract: A method for operating forestry machinery includes providing timber units with forestry machines and an operation processor. The method also includes detecting or receiving data from an information source, where the data includes worksite preparation data, navigation data, or worksite situation data. The data is processed by the operation processor and operation parameters of the forestry machine are set based on the processing of the data. The method further includes communicating instructions to the forestry machine by the operation processor, where the instructions include the operation parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: JOHANNES KAARNAMETSÄ, AKI PUTKONEN, Vesa Siltanen
  • Patent number: 9880559
    Abstract: A method of and arrangement for monitoring the collection of plant material includes the following steps and apparatus for executing these steps, respectively: collecting plant location and attribute data with respect to plant material, before and/or during and/or after harvesting the plant material, providing the plant location and attribute data on a collecting vehicle adapted to collect the harvested plant material, moving the collecting vehicle to the harvested plant material based on the plant location data, collecting the harvested plant material, sensing attribute data of the harvested plant material before and/or during and/or after the collecting, and comparing the sensed attribute data with the plant attribute data and generating an output dependent on the result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Aki Juha Antero Putkonen, Johannes Kaarnametsä, Vesa Siltanen
  • Patent number: 9618941
    Abstract: A system and a method for controlling a tool pivotably mounted to an articulated boom connected to a work machine having a control unit. The solution: 1) determining the direction a predetermined point of the boom or the tool is moving to, i.e. the moving direction, and 2) controlling orientation of the tool as a function of one or several predetermined dependencies, the predetermined dependencies defining at least the orientation of the tool in relation to the moving direction. According to an example the work machine is a forest machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Mikko Palmroth, Marko Paakkunainen, Vesa Siltanen
  • Publication number: 20170075354
    Abstract: A method of and arrangement for monitoring the collection of plant material includes the following steps and apparatus for executing these steps, respectively: collecting plant location and attribute data with respect to plant material, before and/or during and/or after harvesting the plant material, providing the plant location and attribute data on a collecting vehicle adapted to collect the harvested plant material, moving the collecting vehicle to the harvested plant material based on the plant location data, collecting the harvested plant material, sensing attribute data of the harvested plant material before and/or during and/or after the collecting, and comparing the sensed attribute data with the plant attribute data and generating an output dependent on the result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Aki Juha Antero Putkonen, Johannes Kaarnametsä, Vesa Siltanen
  • Publication number: 20160054739
    Abstract: A system and a method for controlling a tool pivotably mounted to an articulated boom connected to a work machine having a control unit. The solution: 1) determining the direction a predetermined point of the boom or the tool is moving to, i.e. the moving direction, and 2) controlling orientation of the tool as a function of one or several predetermined dependencies, the predetermined dependencies defining at least the orientation of the tool in relation to the moving direction. According to an example the work machine is a forest machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Mikko Palmroth, Marko Paakkunainen,, Vesa Siltanen
  • Publication number: 20150353328
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for controlling the crane of a working machine by using boom tip control, in which method the crane comprises at least two booms connected to the working machine and each other in an articulated manner, which booms are moved in relation to the working machine and to each other by means of actuators controlled by a control system of the working machine, and in which method the direction and speed of motion of the head of the crane, controlled by the driver applying controls in the working machine, is implemented by applying speeds of the different booms of the crane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Mikko PALMROTH, SIMO LAITINEN, VESA SILTANEN, TIMO KÄPPI