Patents by Inventor Chad Eric Yates
Chad Eric Yates 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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Patent number: 11840453Abstract: A coating that is configured for use on parts of a control valve. The configurations may incorporate various material layers, preferably that form a layered structure on a base or substrate (for example, an Inconel body). In one implementation, the layered structure can be arranged as “stacked” individual layers that exhibit different concentrations or ratios of materials, including by example tungsten carbide and nickel alloy. The concentration of tungsten carbide may increase from an innermost layer to an outer most layer. This feature can extend service life of the parts, particularly when in use with highly-erosive process fluids, like particle-entrained fluids commonly found in hydrocracking or refining operations. Manufacture of the layered structure on the parts may require use of additive manufacturing technology in order to deposit layers of material of varying composition and thickness on the unique fluted design contemplated herein.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Dresser, LLCInventors: Cyril Nicolas Vlassoff, Chad Eric Yates, Gheorghe Dodan, Mikhail Anisimov, Wei Chen, Alexandre Serra Cachinhasky
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Patent number: 11796083Abstract: A valve trim that is configured to abate noise in a control valve. These configurations may include a cage with a flow path that has a spiral design or layout. This flow path can direct flow around a central bore. A plug may reside in this bore. This plug can travel longitudinally to change parameters of flow through the control valve. In one implementation, the spiral design can split flow inside of the cage. This feature can elongate travel of flow without any increase in dimensions of the cage (or the valve trim itself).Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Dresser, LLCInventors: Chad Eric Yates, Rohan N. Buntval, Stephen Randall Farmer, Donald Stroman Sanders, Jeremy Asher Glaun, Mikhail Anisimov
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Publication number: 20220185678Abstract: A coating that is configured for use on parts of a control valve. The configurations may incorporate various material layers, preferably that form a layered structure on a base or substrate (for example, an Inconel body). In one implementation, the layered structure can be arranged as “stacked” individual layers that exhibit different concentrations or ratios of materials, including by example tungsten carbide and nickel alloy. The concentration of tungsten carbide may increase from an innermost layer to an outer most layer. This feature can extend service life of the parts, particularly when in use with highly-erosive process fluids, like particle-entrained fluids commonly found in hydrocracking or refining operations. Manufacture of the layered structure on the parts may require use of additive manufacturing technology in order to deposit layers of material of varying composition and thickness on the unique fluted design contemplated herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Cyril Nicolas Vlassoff, Chad Eric Yates, Gheorge Dodan, Mikhail Anisimov, Wei Chen, Alexandre Serra Cachinhasky
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Patent number: 10731762Abstract: An elastomeric sealing device operable at an operating temperature above an installation temperature. The sealing device includes a body fabricated from an elastomeric material. A channel is formed within the body. A mesh is disposed within the channel. The mesh includes a plurality of interwoven fibers forming an inner volume. A filler is disposed within the inner volume. At least a portion of the filler is a liquid at the installation temperature. The at least a portion of the filler is a gas at the operating temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLCInventors: Deepak Trivedi, Chad Eric Yates, Binoy Milan Shah
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Publication number: 20200018403Abstract: A valve assembly for managing a flow of fluids in hydrocarbon development and production operations includes a valve body having an internal body cavity and a body bore intersecting the body cavity. A valve plug is located within the body cavity and is rotatable between an open position and a closed position. A sleeve is located between the valve plug and the valve body and is rotationally fixed to the valve body and remains rotationally static relative to the valve body as the valve plug rotates. A seal groove is located on a sidewall surface of the sleeve and circumscribes one of the sleeve openings. A seal assembly has a seal ring that is U shaped in cross section with an inner leg that engages the seal groove and an outer leg that extends out of the seal groove and engages one of the valve body and the valve plug.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LPInventors: Rick C. Hunter, Robert S. Mckee, Manuel Garibay, Chad Eric Yates
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Patent number: 10203037Abstract: A valve assembly for managing a flow of fluids in hydrocarbon development and production operations includes a valve body having an internal body cavity and a body bore intersecting the body cavity. A valve plug is located within the body cavity and is rotatable between an open position and a closed position. A sleeve is located between the valve plug and the valve body and is rotationally fixed to the valve body and remains rotationally static relative to the valve body as the valve plug rotates. A seal groove is located on a sidewall surface of the sleeve and circumscribes one of the sleeve openings. A seal assembly has a seal ring that is U shaped in cross section with an inner leg that engages the seal groove and an outer leg that extends out of the seal groove and engages one of the valve body and the valve plug.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LPInventors: Rick C. Hunter, Robert S. McKee, Manuel Garibay, Chad Eric Yates
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Publication number: 20180283162Abstract: A system includes a wellhead monitoring system. The wellhead monitoring system includes a processor configured to receive from a sensor a detection of one or more operating parameters associated with a wellhead disposed within a subsea environment. The sensor is coupled to the wellhead, and is configured to detect the one or more operating parameters within the subsea environment. The processor is configured to store the detection of the one or more operating parameters, and to generate an output based at least in part on the detection of the one or more operating parameters. The output includes an indication of an operational fatigue or an operational health of the wellhead.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.Inventors: Derrell Wade Bird, Chad Eric Yates
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Patent number: 9903525Abstract: The present invention provides an insulated fluid conduit useful in facilities in which a hot fluid susceptible to one or more deleterious phase changes in response to heat loss to a cold environment is transported. Such conduits may be particularly well suited to improve thermal control in subsea hydrocarbon production operations. The fluid conduit includes an inner first insulating layer containing a first polymer matrix, and a first phase change material undergoing a phase change at T1. The fluid conduit includes an outer second insulating layer containing a second polymer matrix, and a second phase change material undergoing a phase change at T2, wherein T1 is greater than T2. One or more barrier layers inhibit migration of the phase change material from the insulation layers and into the environment. In one or more embodiments, the phase change material is present as a microencapsulated phase change material.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: General Electronic CompanyInventors: Huabing Zheng, Donald Joseph Buckley, Jr., Scott Michael Miller, Chad Eric Yates, Juan Alberto Rivas Cardona
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Patent number: 9869174Abstract: A system for monitoring the orientation and position of components in an oil well. The system includes a first well component, a second well component, and a transducer attached to the first well component, for generating a pulse. The system also includes a transceiver attached to the second well component for measuring the parameters of the pulse generated by the transducer, and a processor in communication with the transceiver that receives information about the parameters of the pulse as measured by the transceiver, and that calculates the position of the transceiver relative to the transducer.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: VETCO GRAY INC.Inventors: Stephen Jude Szpunar, Daniel W. Sexton, Chad Eric Yates, Oladapo Akinyede, Samved Bhatnagar
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Publication number: 20170138147Abstract: An elastomeric sealing device operable at an operating temperature above an installation temperature. The sealing device includes a body fabricated from an elastomeric material. A channel is formed within the body. A mesh is disposed within the channel. The mesh includes a plurality of interwoven fibers forming an inner volume. A filler is disposed within the inner volume. At least a portion of the filler is a liquid at the installation temperature. The at least a portion of the filler is a gas at the operating temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Deepak TRIVEDI, Chad Eric YATES, Binoy Milan SHAH
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Publication number: 20170059080Abstract: The present invention provides an insulated fluid conduit useful in facilities in which a hot fluid susceptible to one or more deleterious phase changes in response to heat loss to a cold environment is transported. Such conduits may be particularly well suited to improve thermal control in subsea hydrocarbon production operations. The fluid conduit includes an inner first insulating layer containing a first polymer matrix, and a first phase change material undergoing a phase change at T1. The fluid conduit includes an outer second insulating layer containing a second polymer matrix, and a second phase change material undergoing a phase change at T2, wherein T1 is greater than T2. One or more barrier layers inhibit migration of the phase change material from the insulation layers and into the environment. In one or more embodiments, the phase change material is present as a microencapsulated phase change material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Huabing Zheng, Donald Joseph Buckley, JR., Scott Michael Miller, Chad Eric Yates, Juan Alberto Rivas Cardona
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Publication number: 20160319657Abstract: A system for monitoring the orientation and position of components in an oil well The system includes a first well component a second well component, and a transducer attached to the first well component, for generating a pulse. The system also includes a transceiver attached to the second well component for measuring the parameters of the pulse generated by the transducer, and a processor in communication with the transceiver that receives information about the parameters of the pulse as measured by the transceiver, and that calculates the position of the transceiver relative to the transducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2015Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Stephen Jude Szpunar, Daniel W. Sexton, Chad Eric Yates, Oladapo Akinyede, Samved Bhatnagar
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Publication number: 20160305232Abstract: A system for monitoring equipment in an oil well, the system including a first sensor attached to a first well component, a second sensor attached to a second well component, a transducer attached to one of the first or the second sensors, for generating a pulse, a transceiver for measuring parameters of the pulse generated by the transducer, and a processor in communication with the transceiver that receives information about parameters of the pulse as measured by the transceiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: Derrell Wade Bird, Chad Eric Yates
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Patent number: 9416652Abstract: A wellhead assembly having a tubular magnetized in at least one selected location, and a sensor proximate the magnetized location that monitors a magnetic field from the magnetized location. The magnetic field changes in response to changes in mechanical stress of the magnetized location, so that signals from the sensor represent loads applied to the tubular. Analyzing the signals over time provides fatigue loading data useful for estimating structural integrity of the tubular and its fatigue life. Example tubulars include a low pressure housing, a high pressure housing, conductor pipes respectively coupled with the housings, a string of tubing, a string of casing, housing and tubing connections, housing and tubing seals, tubing hangers, tubing risers, and other underwater structural components that require fatigue monitoring, or can be monitored for fatigue.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.Inventors: Yuri Alexeyevich Plotnikov, Teresa Chen-Keat, Yanyan Wu, Chad Eric Yates, Xichang Zhang, Li Zheng, Pinghai Yang
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Publication number: 20160201811Abstract: A valve assembly for managing a flow of fluids in hydrocarbon development and production operations includes a valve body having an internal body cavity and a body bore intersecting the body cavity. A valve plug is located within the body cavity and is rotatable between an open position and a closed position. A sleeve is located between the valve plug and the valve body and is rotationally fixed to the valve body and remains rotationally static relative to the valve body as the valve plug rotates. A seal groove is located on a sidewall surface of the sleeve and circumscribes one of the sleeve openings. A seal assembly has a seal ring that is U shaped in cross section with an inner leg that engages the seal groove and an outer leg that extends out of the seal groove and engages one of the valve body and the valve plug.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LPInventors: Rick C. Hunter, Robert S. Mckee, Manuel Garibay, Chad Eric Yates
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Publication number: 20160076331Abstract: Retrievable sub-pods for use in a blowout preventer (BOP) stack, including systems of sub-pods and methods for use, are disclosed. The sub-pod includes a valve assembly, wherein the valve assembly includes a solenoid, an electronics interface, and a directional control valve. The sub-pod further includes a modular valve pack and a controller, wherein the modular valve pack comprises a manifold, and wherein the manifold is operable to support the valve assembly within the manifold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: HYDRIL USA DISTRIBUTION, LLCInventors: Christopher Lance Kalinec, Chad Eric Yates
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Publication number: 20150361728Abstract: A method for forming an elongated tubular member for use with hydrocarbon production includes forming a blank member of a steel material having an outer diameter equal to a first outer diameter. The blank member is mounted on a rotating mandrel. A tubular member is formed by engaging a rotary disk with an outer surface of the blank member and moving the rotary disk in a first axial direction, lengthening the blank member in a second axial direction and reducing the outer diameter of the blank member until the outer diameter of a central portion of the blank member is equal to a second outer diameter and the outer diameter of end portions of the blank member is equal to a third outer diameter. The tubular member is heat treated to reduce a residual stress. A mechanical connection is formed in each of the end portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.Inventors: Jianqiang Chen, Chad Eric Yates
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Patent number: 9103204Abstract: An acoustic modem located on a blowout preventer stack communicates with a running tool acoustic modem located on a subsea running tool disposed within a subsea wellhead, tree or tubing spool. The acoustic modem and the running tool acoustic modern transmit and receive acoustic signals through a column of fluid in the blowout preventer stack. The acoustic modem is communicatively coupled to a subsea electronics module located on the blowout preventer stack and further communicatively coupled to a central control unit located on a platform at the surface. The running tool acoustic modem is communicatively coupled to a controller that receives data from sensors on the running tool and sends operational signals to functions of the running tool. An operator at the surface may control the running tool through the acoustic modems, and the running tool may communicate the running tool status to the operator through the acoustic modems.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.Inventor: Chad Eric Yates
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Patent number: 8978772Abstract: A seal seals an annulus in a subsea assembly between a wellhead and a casing hanger landed on a shoulder within a bore of the wellhead. The seal includes a casing hanger seal ring disposed within the annulus. The seal ring engaged with an inner diameter surface of the wellhead, and engaged with an outer diameter surface of the casing hanger so that the seal ring prevents flow through the annulus. A nose ring is secured to a lower end of the seal ring so that, when the seal ring is energized, a conical surface of the nose ring engages a mating conical profile formed in the inner diameter surface portion of the wellhead and the nose ring engages a surface opposite the conical surface with a substantially smooth outer diameter surface portion of the casing hanger to limit upwards axial movement of the casing hanger.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.Inventors: Chad Eric Yates, David L. Ford, Daniel Caleb Benson
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Patent number: 8973664Abstract: A wellhead assembly for use subsea includes a high pressure housing landed within a low pressure housing. The low pressure housing is an annular member that mounts into the sea floor and having an inner surface engaging the high pressure housing along a loading interface. Upper and lower sockets are formed along axially spaced apart portions of the outer surface of the high pressure housing. As the high pressure housing inserts into the low pressure housing, the high pressure housing sockets engage corresponding sockets formed along axially spaced apart sockets on portions of the inner surface of the low pressure housing. The sockets each have cylindrically shaped outer surfaces, and when engaged with one another define the loading interface. The sockets are strategically located on the upper and lower portions of the housings to maximize their distance apart.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.Inventors: Chad Eric Yates, Philip John Potter