Patents by Inventor Daniel Walton

Daniel Walton 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: 11942719
    Abstract: An ROV, diver, or stab, wet mateable connector plug front end housing includes a housing front section; a locator mount section; and a seal section axially in series with one another. The housing front section includes a plug coarse alignment feature on an outer surface of the housing front section, adjacent to a front surface of the housing front section and radially outward of a central axis of the housing. There is a circumferential groove on the outer surface of the housing front section, axially displaced from and rearward of the coarse alignment feature, the groove being adapted to receive a latch of a wet-mateable connector receptacle front end housing. The plug coarse alignment feature includes a bullnose feature. A plug fine alignment feature is formed in the outer surface of the housing front section, aligned with and located radially outward of the central axis of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christopher Burrow, Kelly Turner, Daniel Walton
  • Patent number: 11942720
    Abstract: A dry mate cable connection includes a data cable. The data cable includes a plurality of electrical conductors and at least one electrically insulating outer layer surrounding each data conductor, whereby the data conductors are electrically insulated from one another. The cable includes a termination end. The outer layer of each conductor is physically in contact with an outer layer of an adjacent conductor, except at the termination end. The plurality of electrical conductors at the termination end are physically separated from one another by a single electrically insulating overmoulded cable termination housing. The housing is in contact with at least part of the electrically insulating layers of each of the electrical conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jordan Buchanan, Christopher Burrow, Daniel Walton
  • Publication number: 20230344153
    Abstract: A subsea connector cable termination system for terminating a cable comprises a cable core (12) and a cable sheath (11). The termination system comprises a crimp component, the crimp component comprising a crimp body and further comprising two or more integral conductive resilient members (14) adapted to be mounted radially outwardly of the cable core. The termination system further comprises a retainer (18) or one of the crimp body, or the conductive resilient members, are adapted to latch the crimp body. A method of terminating a cable to a connector in a subsea cable connection system is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Jordan Buchanan, Christopher Burrow, Daniel Walton
  • Publication number: 20230344166
    Abstract: An electrical connector for supplying power to electrical equipment includes a first connector part with an electrically conductive pin and an insulating layer, and a second connector part with a socket. The electrically conductive pin in the first connector part is configured for engagement with the socket of the second connector part and for transmitting power or data or both through the electrically conductive pin to the socket part. The insulating layer is in intimate contact with and at least partially covering the electrically conductive pin and electrically insulates the pin from a body of the first connector part of the connector. The insulating layer includes a polymeric material having a repeat unit of formula: —O-Ph-Ph-O-Ph-CO-Ph- (I) and a repeat unit of formula —O-Ph-Ph-O-Ph-SO2-Ph-Ph-SO2-Ph- (II) wherein Ph represents a phenylene moiety; and wherein the repeat units I and II are in the relative molar proportions 95:5 to 80:20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Limited
    Inventors: Michael Jeschke, Daniel Walton, Chantelle Duckworth, Nigel Slater
  • Patent number: 11782943
    Abstract: A method and a case management system are described. The case management system enables the user to generate and update a case plan for a client of an organization. The case plan includes a set of goals and a set of action items for each one of the goals that are defined based on goal templates and action item templates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Claire Markham, Daniel Walton Venor, Sophia Dias, Ashwin Nitin Mogral, Gagan Puneet Kaur Sandhu, Monica Ramachandran, Tarren James Anderson, Bethany Breisnes, Scott Thomas Pelak, Willi Watkins, Bharathi Muniswamy, Kelley A. Bevans
  • Publication number: 20220336996
    Abstract: A configurable subsea wet-mateable connector includes a receptacle connector body and a plug connector body. The subsea receptacle connector unit includes at least two receptacle inserts chosen from at least one of a power connector unit, a data connector unit, an optical fibre connector unit, a pneumatic connector unit or a fluid connector unit. The subsea plug connector unit includes at least two plug inserts having the same two of a power connector unit, a data connector unit, an optical fibre connector unit, a pneumatic connector unit or a fluid connector unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christopher Burrow, Scott Spencer, Daniel Walton
  • Publication number: 20220302636
    Abstract: A plug part for a subsea connector, the connector includes a plug and a receptacle. The plug part includes one or more female conducting contact assemblies each female conducting contact assembly including a female contact including inner and outer conducting surfaces, the inner conducting surface defining a cavity of the one or more female conducting contact assemblies and each female contact unit further including a shuttle pin adapted to receive a male contact pin of a receptacle. The female contact assembly further includes a solid insulator mounted radially outward of the external surface and forming an annulus between the outer surface of the female contact and an inner surface of the solid insulator and an orifice between the cavity and the annulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christopher Burrow, Scott Spencer, Daniel Walton
  • Publication number: 20220302637
    Abstract: A subsea wet mateable connector plug part includes a plug body, a plurality of data conductor contacts arranged in the plug body and a plurality of power conductor contacts arranged in the plug body. The data conductor contacts include an even number of pairs of data conductor contacts, each pair being aligned orthogonally with respect to an adjacent pair of data conductor contacts. The pairs of data conductor contacts are so arranged as to form a data cluster. The data cluster includes an outer earth screen adapted to maintain an electrical contact with an earth screen of a cable. The power conductor contacts are spaced from one another in the plug body, outside of and remote from the outer earth screen of the data cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christopher Burrow, Daniel Walton
  • Publication number: 20220302635
    Abstract: A subsea wet mateable connector includes a plug and a receptacle. The plug includes a plug body and a shuttle pin moveably mounted in a socket contact. The receptacle includes a receptacle body and a receptacle pin. The connector further including a secondary diaphragm mounted to the plug body and a primary diaphragm mounted to the plug body outside the secondary diaphragm. The primary diaphragm and secondary diaphragm are spaced from one another in a demated state, allowing fluid flow in the space formed therebetween. The primary diaphragm and secondary diaphragm are sealingly engaged in a mated state, forming a continuous protective layer over the receptacle pin in a mated state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christopher Burrow, Daniel Walton
  • Publication number: 20220302633
    Abstract: An ROV, diver, or stab, wet mateable connector plug front end housing includes a housing front section; a locator mount section; and a seal section axially in series with one another. The housing front section includes a plug coarse alignment feature on an outer surface of the housing front section, adjacent to a front surface of the housing front section and radially outward of a central axis of the housing. There is a circumferential groove on the outer surface of the housing front section, axially displaced from and rearward of the coarse alignment feature, the groove being adapted to receive a latch of a wet-mateable connector receptacle front end housing. The plug coarse alignment feature includes a bullnose feature. A plug fine alignment feature is formed in the outer surface of the housing front section, aligned with and located radially outward of the central axis of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christopher Burrow, Kelly Turner, Daniel Walton
  • Publication number: 20220302634
    Abstract: A dry mate cable connection includes a data cable. The data cable includes a plurality of electrical conductors and at least one electrically insulating outer layer surrounding each data conductor, whereby the data conductors are electrically insulated from one another. The cable includes a termination end. The outer layer of each conductor is physically in contact with an outer layer of an adjacent conductor, except at the termination end. The plurality of electrical conductors at the termination end are physically separated from one another by a single electrically insulating overmoulded cable termination housing. The housing is in contact with at least part of the electrically insulating layers of each of the electrical conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jordan Buchanan, Christopher Burrow, Daniel Walton
  • Publication number: 20210296022
    Abstract: A subsea electrical connector or electrical cable having a conductor, an insulator coaxial with the conductor; and at least one of a volumetric compensating diaphragm located radially outwardly of the insulator, or a termination boot. The diaphragm or termination boot has a compound layer, the compound layer includes a graphene nano-platelet additive incorporated into a cross-linked polymer matrix to produce a polymer composite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Daniel Walton
  • Publication number: 20210149908
    Abstract: A method and a case management system are described. The case management system enables a user to enter client notes for a client with associated tags and a draft indicator. A first identifier of a first client and a first draft indicator are stored as first field values of a first record of a client note object in a case management datastore. First tags are stored in second field values of a second record. Upon receipt of a search request for client notes that includes search criteria, the first field values are retrieved from the case management datastore based on the search criteria and transmitted to the computing device in response to the search request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Claire Markham, Daniel Walton Venor, Sophia Dias, Ashwin Nitin Mogral, Gagan Puneet Kaur Sandhu, Monica Ramachandran, Tarren James Anderson, Bethany Breisnes, Scott Thomas Pelak, Willi Watkins, Bharathi Muniswamy, Kelley A. Bevans
  • Publication number: 20210150439
    Abstract: A method and a case management system are described. The case management system enables the user to generate and update a case plan for a client of an organization. The case plan includes a set of goals and a set of action items for each one of the goals that are defined based on goal templates and action item templates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Claire Markham, Daniel Walton Venor, Sophia Dias, Ashwin Nitin Mogral, Gagan Puneet Kaur Sandhu, Monica Ramachandran, Tarren James Anderson, Bethany Breisnes, Scott Thomas Pelak, Willi Watkins, Bharathi Muniswamy, Kelley A. Bevans
  • Publication number: 20210150448
    Abstract: A method and a program management system are described. The program management system enables a user to enter data related to the services and programs offered to a client based on a standardized program management data model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Margaret Elizabeth Gray, Daniel Walton Venor, Tarren James Anderson, Claire Markham, Bethany Breisnes, Scott Thomas Pelak, Willi Watkins, Bharathi Muniswamy, Kelley A. Bevans, Sophia Dias, Ashwin Nitin Mogral, Gagan Puneet Kaur Sandhu, Monica Ramachandran, Jaclene Roshan
  • Patent number: 10594091
    Abstract: A method for determining an operational state of a subsea connector unit, wherein the method includes: providing at least one operational value and/or a plurality of operational values of at least one operational parameter describing a specific operational condition at at least one selected location of the subsea connector unit and comparing the at least one provided operational value and/or the plurality of provided operational values and/or at least one derivative derived from the at least one provided operational value and/or at least one derivative derived from the plurality of provided operational values with at least one predefined reference and thus determining an operational state of the subsea connector unit on the basis of the comparison. An assembly monitors an operational state of a subsea connector unit and a subsea connector unit has the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Daniel Walton
  • Patent number: 10153580
    Abstract: A connector part of a connector unit, wherein the connector unit has a male part and a female part, including at least one volume compensating arrangement with at least a first flexible layer and at least a first chamber. The at least first flexible layer at least partially encases the at least first chamber. The at least one flexible layer includes at least one thermoplastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mark Simmonds, Antonella Simpson, Daniel Walton
  • Publication number: 20180076573
    Abstract: A method for determining an operational state of a subsea connector unit, wherein the method includes: providing at least one operational value and/or a plurality of operational values of at least one operational parameter describing a specific operational condition at at least one selected location of the subsea connector unit and comparing the at least one provided operational value and/or the plurality of provided operational values and/or at least one derivative derived from the at least one provided operational value and/or at least one derivative derived from the plurality of provided operational values with at least one predefined reference and thus determining an operational state of the subsea connector unit on the basis of the comparison. An assembly monitors an operational state of a subsea connector unit and a subsea connector unit has the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Daniel Walton
  • Patent number: 9899816
    Abstract: A pressure compensator for compensating volume variations of a medium. The pressure compensator has a first compensator part and a second compensator part. The first compensator part encloses a first volume and the second compensator part encloses a second volume. The first and second volumes are in flow communication. The first compensator part includes a first bellows portion and the second compensator part includes a second bellows portion. A moveable element, to which the first bellows portion and the second bellows portion are mechanically coupled such that movement of the moveably element along a predetermined axis results in the compression of one of the bellows portions and in the expansion of the other of the bellows portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christopher Burrow, Richard Lewin, Christopher Plant, Antonella Simpson, Daniel Walton
  • Patent number: 9791569
    Abstract: A position detection system is able to detect the three dimensional position of at least one target (10). Each target (10) is configured to act as a retro-reflector for light incident from any direction. At least one light emitter illuminates the at least one target (10) and at least one detector (24) is provided for detecting and taking measurements of light retro-reflected from a target (10). There is also provided a processor for processing measurements taken by each detector (24) to determine the three dimensional position of the at least one target (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills
    Inventors: Edward Benjamin Hughes, Matthew Stuard Warden, Daniel Walton Veal