Patents by Inventor Joseph Bernard Suprick

Joseph Bernard Suprick 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).

  • Method for monitoring and optimizing the performance of a well pumping system
    Patent number: 9938805
    Abstract: A system for controlling a speed of a pump jack system having a variable speed prime mover includes a sensor attached to the pump jack system. The sensor is capable of detecting an absolute position of a first component of the pump jack system relative to a second component of the pump jack system and configured to send a signal proportional to the sensed absolute position and/or velocity and/or acceleration. The system includes process circuitry configured to accept the signal and perform a calculation related to absolute position and/or velocity and/or acceleration of the first component relative to the second component. The system includes a controller that is configured to receive the signal from the process circuitry and configured to send a signal to the prime mover to adjust a rotational speed of the prime mover and the position of the first component relative to the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: MTS SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Bernard Suprick, John Matthew Hankinson, John William Balding, Michael Stephen Wardle
  • METHOD FOR MONITORING AND OPTIMIZING THE PERFORMANCE OF A WELL PUMPING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150308242
    Abstract: A system for controlling a speed of a pump jack system having a variable speed prime mover includes a sensor attached to the pump jack system. The sensor is capable of detecting an absolute position of a first component of the pump jack system relative to a second component of the pump jack system and configured to send a signal proportional to the sensed absolute position and/or velocity and/or acceleration. The system includes process circuitry configured to accept the signal and perform a calculation related to absolute position and/or velocity and/or acceleration of the first component relative to the second component. The system includes a controller that is configured to receive the signal from the process circuitry and configured to send a signal to the prime mover to adjust a rotational speed of the prime mover and the position of the first component relative to the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Joseph Bernard Suprick, John Matthew Hankinson, John William Balding, Michael Stephen Wardle