Patents by Inventor Jorgen Hallundbaek

Jorgen Hallundbaek 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: 20210340830
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole tubing intervention tool for submerging into a casing in a wellbore and for selectively removing material from within the casing, the tool extending in a longitudinal direction, comprising a tool housing having a first housing part and a second housing part, a rotation unit, such as an electrical motor, arranged in the second housing part, and a rotatable shaft rotated by the rotation unit for rotating at least a first segment of abrasive material being connected with the first housing part and forming an abrasive edge, wherein the first segment is movable between a retracted position and a projected position in relation to the first housing part of the tool housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventor: Jørgen HALLUNDBÆK
  • Publication number: 20210301616
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole tool for removing a restriction in a well tubular metal structure having a wall and an inner diameter, the restriction partly blocking the inner diameter, creating an opening defined at least partly by a rim section of the restriction, the downhole tool having a tool axis and comprising a tool body having a first part and a second part, an electrical motor arranged in the first part for rotating a rotatable shaft, a core bit arranged in the second part and having a first end connected with the rotatable shaft and a second end having a cutting edge, wherein the second part of the downhole tool further comprises a locator for locating the rim section, a collecting means for collecting part of the restriction to be cut out by the cutting edge, the locator and the collecting means are rotating with the core bit until the locator locates the rim section and a threshold value is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventor: Jørgen HALLUNDBÆK
  • Publication number: 20210285300
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole line separation tool for submerging into a casing in a wellbore, the downhole line separation tool having a first tool end, a second tool end and a tool axis, comprising a tool housing having a first housing part and a second housing part, an electrical motor arranged within the first housing part and powered through a wireline connected to the first tool end, an annular separation element having an element end facing away from the first tool end and being rotatably connected within the second housing part, and a rotatable shaft arranged within the second housing part and rotated by the electrical motor for rotating the annular separation element, wherein the second housing part comprises a sleeve part having a sleeve end, at least part of the annular separation element projecting from the sleeve end further away from the first tool end than the sleeve, the second housing part comprising at least one projecting part extending further away from the first tool end tha
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventor: Jørgen HALLUNDBÆK
  • Patent number: 10844686
    Abstract: An annular barrier is expandable in an annulus between a well tubular structure and an inside wall of a borehole downhole for providing zone isolation between a first zone and a second zone of the borehole. The annular barrier has a tubular part for mounting as part of the well tubular structure, an expandable metal sleeve surrounding the tubular part and having an inner face facing the tubular part and an outer face facing towards the inside wall of the borehole, each end of the expandable metal sleeve being connected with a connection part which is connected with the tubular part, a space between the inner face of the expandable metal sleeve and the tubular part, and an expansion opening in the tubular part through which fluid may enter into the space in order to expand the expandable metal sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Welltec Oilfield Solutions AG
    Inventors: Jørgen Hallundbæk, Ricardo Reves Vasques
  • Publication number: 20200361367
    Abstract: A bus, notably an articulated low platform bus with an electric drive or a hybrid drive. The bus includes a vehicle detection module configured for detecting vehicle such as a car, a van or a motorbike, a height obtaining module adapted for obtaining the height of the detected vehicle, and a lighting system with a lighting surface adapted for displaying a luminous picture at least partially or totally above the height of the detected vehicle. The height of the luminous picture is adapted depending on the size of the vehicle for visibility purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20200361371
    Abstract: A vehicle, such as an articulated bus, includes a lighting system with a light emitting surface. The lighting system being configured for displaying a first lighting configuration and a second lighting configuration. The first lighting configuration and the second lighting configuration are displayed by different proportions of the light emitting surface. The vehicle further receives a monitoring device with a position monitoring module configured for monitoring the position of a road user with respect to the vehicle. The lighting system being further configured for switching from the first lighting configuration to the second lighting configuration depending on the position of the road user with respect to the vehicle. A corresponding monitoring process is further provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20200298694
    Abstract: An articulated, bus with at least two bodies or carts, adapted for carrying at least fifty or one hundred passengers in the passenger compartment. The articulated bus comprises several wheel housings, each with two longitudinally aligned wheels. Each wheel is disposed in the wheel housing and comprises an in-wheel electric engine in its rim. A cooling circuit is in communication with the in-wheel electric engine and comprises a heat exchanger outside the wheel housing in order to cool the wheels. The cooling circuit also cools the battery pack electrically connected to the electric engine. A cooling process for controlling the temperature in-wheel electric engine, and a use of a heat exchanger for heating a seat or a passenger compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20200282783
    Abstract: A bus, notably an electric bus, includes a structure with a wheel housing; at least two wheels in the wheel housing; a seat; and a suspension system connected to the wheel. The suspension system includes a lower arm pivoting about a lower upper longitudinal pivot axis; an upper arm pivoting about an upper longitudinal pivot axis; a gas actuator joined to the upper arm and to the wheel housing. The wheel housing includes a first, a second and a third longitudinal beam which are respectively joined to the lower arm, the upper arm, and the gas actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20200282789
    Abstract: A bus assembling process and an articulated low platform bus with a suspension assembly in a wheel housing. The suspension assembly includes a wheel support such as a steering knuckle, an upper link part of a parallelogram suspension and pivotably joined to the wheel support, a damping device adapted for absorbing energy and disposed in the parallelogram, a lower link including a portion of reduced thickness and two transversal branches, one of the two transversal branches being vertically thicker than the portion of reduced thickness and transversally joining the portion of reduced thickness to the damping device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20200270983
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole tool (1) for determining laterals in a borehole wall (3) or a borehole casing (4), comprising a tool housing (5) extending along a longitudinal axis (6) and having a circumference perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and adapted to be lowered into a well, and a plurality of sonic transceivers (7), each sonic transceiver transmitting sonic signals (8) from the housing and receiving sonic signals reflected from the borehole wall or borehole casing in a predefined angular segment (9), wherein the plurality of sonic transceivers are arranged along the circumference of the tool housing having a mutual distance and are capable of transmitting sonic signals radially away from the tool housing in an entire central angle of 360 degrees towards the borehole wall or borehole casing and wherein, during use, one sonic transceiver, during a pulse time, transmits a sonic signal in the predefined angular segment of that sonic transmitter, and wherein one sonic transceiver, during
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Jørgen HALLUNDBÆK, Jimmy KJÆRSGAARD-RASMUSSEN
  • Publication number: 20200239064
    Abstract: A bus with a low and thin passenger platform adapted for standing passengers, seat places are foreseen as well. The bus is an articulated bus with two or more units. It includes a passenger compartment, left steering modules and right steering modules. Each of these steering modules includes: a wheel with a rotation axis, a steering knuckle with an upper pivot joint and a lower pivot joint, a steering actuator for pivoting the corresponding steering knuckle about the upper pivot joint and the lower pivot joint. The bus further including a passenger platform delimiting the passenger compartment and transversally joining the left steering module and the right steering module, and the passenger platform being vertically disposed, at least partially, between the rotation axes of the wheels and the lower pivot joints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20200239068
    Abstract: A steering unit for a vehicle, notably a bus. The steering unit is coupled with a suspension system and comprises: a support formed by a passenger platform and a wheel housing, a longitudinal axis, a steering knuckle with an in-wheel engine defining a transversal rotation axis which is arranged transversally with respect to the longitudinal axis, an actuator mechanism adapted for pivoting the steering knuckle. The steering knuckle further comprises a lever which is linked to the actuator mechanism and which includes a transversal portion extending transversally along the in-wheel engine. The steering unit is adapted for an articulated bus with at least two bodies, said bodies each exhibits four or eight identical and independent steering units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20200114796
    Abstract: A bus structure, optionally an electric bus structure for one hundred passengers or more. The bus structure includes: a passenger compartment, a side wall with a vertical post and delimiting the passenger compartment, a horizontal support, a vertical handle—or stanchion—along the vertical post and projecting from the horizontal support, a strut projecting from the vertical post to the horizontal support, and a floor structure of reduced thickness. The strut defines a triangle with the wheel housing and the vertical post. The strut is straight or curved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20200108878
    Abstract: An articulated electric bus includes two units with: a passenger compartment including a main floor forming a low and thin platform with a planar surface extending over the majority of the width of the passenger compartment, a wheel housing adjacent to the planar surface, a longitudinal row of seat places on the wheel housing, and a driving wheel which is housed in the wheel housing under the longitudinal row of seats. The driving wheel defines a rotation axis and includes an electric engine, and a rim with a rim top above the planar surface. The driving wheel is vertically movable with respect to the planar surface, and the wheel housing actually receives a pair or a couple of driving wheels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Publication number: 20200108740
    Abstract: An electric bus exhibiting a seat arrangement. The electric bus includes a side wall, a wheel with an electric engine disposed in the rim, a seat with a seat base and a leg area. The leg area is below the seat base and vertically level with the wheel. The electric bus also includes an electric energy storing device powering the electric engine of the wheel and arranged transversally between the side wall and the leg area of the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventor: Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Patent number: 10364638
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an annular barrier to be expanded in an annulus between a well tubular structure and an inside wall of a borehole downhole. The annular barrier comprises a tubular part for mounting as part of the well tubular structure, an expandable sleeve surrounding the tubular part and having an inner face facing the tubular part, each end of the expandable sleeve being connected with a connection part which is connected with the tubular part, a space between the inner face of the sleeve and the tubular part, and an element arranged in connection with the sleeve, the element having a first part and a second part both of which extend around the inner face, the first part of the element being fastened to the inner face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Welltec Oilfield Solutions AG
    Inventors: Jørgen Hallundbæk, Paul Hazel, Thomas Sune Andersen
  • Patent number: 10344745
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole hydraulic pump for providing fluid pressure during downhole operations, comprising a pump housing, a cam shaft rotatably arranged in the pump housing and having a longitudinal spin axis, the cam shaft comprising a shaft and a cam lobe arranged on the shaft, a radially arranged piston having a housing end and a cam end, a piston housing arranged in the pump housing, an inlet valve arranged in an inlet in the piston housing, an outlet valve arranged in an outlet in the piston housing, and a piston spring arranged in the pump housing for moving the piston away from the piston housing, wherein the piston housing is rotatably connected to the pump housing enabling rotation of the piston housing around a piston housing rotation axis parallel to the longitudinal spin axis of the cam shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Welltec A/S
    Inventors: Jørgen Hallundbæk, Peter Gråbæk
  • Patent number: 10202819
    Abstract: An annular barrier system for expanding an annular barrier in an annulus between a well tubular structure and an inside wall of a borehole downhole includes an annular barrier having a tubular part for mounting as part of the well tubular structure. The annular barrier further includes an expandable sleeve surrounding the tubular part, at least one end of the expandable sleeve being fastened in a fastener of a connection part in the tubular part. The annular barrier system also has a tool for expanding the expandable sleeve by letting a pressurized fluid through a passage in the tubular part into a space between the expandable sleeve and the tubular part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Welltec Oilfield Solutions AG
    Inventors: Jørgen Hallundbæk, Paul Hazel
  • Patent number: 10174603
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of visualizing a downhole environment using a downhole visualization system. The downhole visualization system comprises a downhole tool string comprising one or more sensors, a downhole data processing means for processing the sensor signals to provide sensor data, an uphole data processing means for uphole processing and visualization, and a data communication link operable to convey the sensor data from the downhole data processing means to the uphole data processing means, the sensors being capable of generating sensor signals indicative of one or more physical parameters in the downhole environment. The downhole visualization system further comprises a downhole data buffering means capable of receiving the sensor data from the downhole data processing means and temporarily storing the sensor data in the downhole data buffering means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: WELLTEC A/S
    Inventors: Jens Barfoed, Jørgen Hallundbæk
  • Patent number: 10151168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a downhole expandable tubular to be expanded in a well downhole from a first outer diameter to a second outer diameter to abut against an inner face of a casing or borehole, the downhole expandable tubular having an outer face and a longitudinal extension and comprising at least one first circumferential edge and at least one second circumferential edge provided on the outer face and spaced apart in the longitudinal extension, wherein a sealing element and a split ring-shaped retaining element are arranged between the first and second circumferential edges, the split ring-shaped retaining element forming a back-up for the sealing element and wherein the split ring-shaped retaining element has more than one winding, so that when the expandable tubular is expanded from the first outer diameter to the second outer diameter, the split ring-shaped retaining element partly unwinds. Furthermore, the present invention relates to an annular barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Welltec Oilfield Solutions AG
    Inventors: Jørgen Hallundbæk, Lars Stæhr