Patents by Inventor LEONARDO GONÇALVES CANDIDO GOMES

LEONARDO GONÇALVES CANDIDO GOMES 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: 20240141762
    Abstract: An electric drive valve control and safety system for application in gas injection gas lift valve in oil production column, which guarantees the gas lift (GL) operation and provides fail-safe-close, with greater reliability in the safety conditions of the joint sets of safety barriers (JSB), further enabling the integration of sensors for monitoring the conditions of the gas lift valve (GLV), the gas lift (GL) operation and the safety of the joint set of safety barriers (JSB).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Auderi Vicente Santos, Leonardo Goncalves Candido Gomes
  • Patent number: 11927072
    Abstract: A valve for downhole chemical injection control, having a single chemical injection fluid line (2) to feed all the injection points, regardless of the number of zones, exclusively electrically-driven by a single electric cable (3), with embedded sensing electronics (7), which communicate and activate an electric motor (4), coupled to a multi-position sphere (5) for dosing the chemical injection fluid, which, according to the electric motor rotation, is moved, altering its position, to enable the passage of interest to be selected, according to the volume of chemical fluid to be injected, a single turn of the sphere being required to commute all the possible positions, the performance of which is low in power consumption, and for a short period of time, having after its positioning in the desired passage zero consumption to maintain this position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: OURO NEGRO TECNOLOGIAS EM EQUIPAMENTOS INDUSTRIAIS S/A
    Inventor: Leonardo Goncalves Candido Gomes
  • Publication number: 20230332483
    Abstract: An electromagnetic-mechanical locking device applied to a subsurface safety valve comprising an electromagnetic-mechanical coupler formed electromagnet (4), ferromagnetic bulkhead (5) in solidarity to the mobile part (6), actuated by spring (9), in addition to locking element (7), and when activated, the electromagnet (4) creates a magnetic field that attracts the ferromagnetic bulkhead (5), along with the mobile part (6), moving this set towards the electromagnet (4), and compressing the locking element (7). During the movement, the mobile part (6) shifts the locking element (7) to the locking position, until it reaches its coupling on the flow tube (3), where it is maintained with compression locking element (7), configuring a trigger device. When the power supplied to the electromagnet (4) ceases, the electromagnetic attraction force of the ferromagnetic bulkhead (5) is cancelled, and the locking element (7), until then retracted, is distended, causing the return of the mobile part (6) to initial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: FELIPE GHERREN NOEL, GIANCARLO VILELA DE FARIA, LEONARDO GONÇALVES CANDIDO GOMES, RICARDO NAOYUKI ALVES DE MORAES SAWAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11319773
    Abstract: A fully electric downhole safety tool comprising a valve for flow blockage in oil and gas wells completion operations under emergency conditions is described. Valve comprises an actuation array constituted by a hollow shaft motor, nut, spindle and sliding sleeve, so that upon starting, the opening movement of said array compresses a valve closure spring and places the flapper sealing in the open position, enabling communication to occur between zones and fluid to flow. To close the valve, as soon as the electrical supply is ceased, the string relaxes, the sliding sleeve, under spring force, returns as is the case for the whole of the actuation array, and flapper sealing is exposed to the flow so that valve returns to the closed position, physically blocking the flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: OURO NEGRO TECNOLOGIAS EM EQUIPAMENTOS INDUSTRIAIS S/A
    Inventor: Leonardo Gonçalves Candido Gomes
  • Publication number: 20220112787
    Abstract: A valve for downhole chemical injection control, having a single chemical injection fluid line (2) to feed all the injection points, regardless of the number of zones, exclusively electrically-driven by a single electric cable (3), with embedded sensing electronics (7), which communicate and activate an electric motor (4), coupled to a multiposition sphere (5) for dosing the chemical injection fluid, which, according to the engine rotation, is moved, altering its position, to enable the passage of interest to be selected, according to the volume of chemical fluid to be injected, a single turn of the sphere being required to commute all the possible positions, the performance of which is low in power consumption, and for a short period of time, having after its positioning in the desired passage zero consumption to maintain this position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventor: Leonardo Goncalves Candido Gomes
  • Patent number: 10995586
    Abstract: A fully electric tool for continuous downhole flow control is described, said tool comprising a body and along the said body, actuating set(s), each actuating set comprising a passage system comprised of shaft(s) radially disposed along said cylindrical body, each of said shaft (s) being actuated with its opposed pair or in an independent way in a well-defined position or not, said shaft(s) being provided of spherical element(s) or sphere(s), provided of at least one window forming piles of sphere(s) in shaft(s), the rotation of said shaft(s)(108) of piles of sphere(s) enabling the opening or total or partial obstruction of holes by the total or partial coincidence of said window(s) of sphere(s) with said bore(s) of said cylindrical body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: OURO NEGRO TECNOLOGIAS EM EQUIPAMENTOS INDUSTRIAIS S/A
    Inventors: Pedro Eduardo Gonzales Panta, Auderi Vicente Santos, Leonardo Gonçalves Candido Gomes
  • Publication number: 20190292879
    Abstract: A fully electric tool for continuous downhole flow control is described, said tool comprising a body and along the said body, actuating set(s), each actuating set comprising a passage system comprised of shaft(s) radially disposed along said cylindrical body, each of said shaft (s) being actuated with its opposed pair or in an independent way in a well-defined position or not, said shaft(s) being provided of spherical element(s) or sphere(s), provided of at least one window forming piles of sphere(s) in shaft(s), the rotation of said shaft(s)(108) of piles of sphere(s) enabling the opening or total or partial obstruction of holes by the total or partial coincidence of said window(s) of sphere(s) with said bore(s) of said cylindrical body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: PEDRO EDUARDO GONZALES PANTA, AUDERI VICENTE SANTOS, LEONARDO GONÇALVES CANDIDO GOMES