Patents by Inventor Patrick S. O'Neill
Patrick S. O'Neill 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: 11989839Abstract: A method including executing a logical computing element (LCE) on a server. Worker LCEs are executed on the server. A first electronic file comprising geometry data in a first data structure is received at the controller LCE. An available worker LCE is identified, by the controller LCE, as an in-use worker LCE from among the worker LCEs. The geometry data is imported by the in-use worker LCE. A job instance is established by the in-use worker LCE. A rendering engine is launched by the in-use worker LCE. The rendering engine generates, for the job instance and using the geometry data, a dataset file in a second data structure different than the first data structure. The dataset file is returned by the in-use worker LCE to the controller LCE. The dataset file is returned by the controller LCE to a remote computer.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Patrick William O'Neill, Mark Gordon Sellars, Michael Joseph Surface, Nick S. Evans, James J. Salmon
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Patent number: 8347503Abstract: Methods for manufacturing brazed aluminum heat exchangers involved in boiling and condensing, including a high performance nucleate boiling surface bonded with the walls of fin-less boiling passages. One method includes providing a first heat exchanger core subassembly including a first joinable end, at least one cooling and one boiling passage, and a first partial finless passage arranged at the joinable end. A second heat exchanger core subassembly is provided similar to the first including a second joinable end. The first and second heat exchanger core subassemblies are brazed. The first joinable end is affixed, preferably by welding, to the second joinable end and the first partial finless passage is affixed to a second partial finless passage to form a coupled finless passage, and thereby a heat exchanger core.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Patrick S. O'Neill, Thomas J. Godry, Dennis P. Held
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Patent number: 8123109Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchanger comprising a boiling passage and cooling passage defined by opposite sides of metal walls. Layers of brazing material between the metal walls and a spacer member bond components of the heat exchanger together. An enhanced boiling layer (EBL) comprising metal particles bonded to each other and to a boiling side of the metal wall provides nucleate boiling pores to improve heat transfer. The EBL has a melting temperature that is higher than the melting temperature of the brazing material. Also disclosed is a process for assembling the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Patrick S. O'Neill, Dennis P. Held, Sr., Thomas J. Godry
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Publication number: 20110139417Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchanger comprising a boiling passage and cooling passage defined by opposite sides of metal walls. The heat exchanger is made with high strength alloys of aluminum that have improved creep resistance that maintain tensile strength and yield strength after use in this invention. Layers of brazing material between the metal walls and a spacer member bond components of the heat exchanger together. An enhanced boiling layer (EBL) comprising metal particles bonded to each other and to a boiling side of the metal wall provides nucleate boiling pores to improve heat transfer. The EBL has a melting temperature that is higher than the melting temperature of the brazing material. Also disclosed is a process for assembling the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: UOP LLCInventors: Thomas J. Godry, Patrick S. O'Neill
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Publication number: 20100088891Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchanger comprising a boiling passage and cooling passage defined by opposite sides of metal walls. Layers of brazing material between the metal walls and a spacer member bond components of the heat exchanger together. An enhanced boiling layer (EBL) comprising metal particles bonded to each other and to a boiling side of the metal wall provides nucleate boiling pores to improve heat transfer. The EBL has a melting temperature that is higher than the melting temperature of the brazing material. Also disclosed is a process for assembling the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: UOP LLCInventors: Patrick S. O'Neill, Dennis P. Held, SR., Thomas J. Godry
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Patent number: 7677300Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchanger comprising a boiling passage and cooling passage defined by opposite sides of metal walls. Layers of brazing material between the metal walls and a spacer member bond components of the heat exchanger together. An enhanced boiling layer (EBL) comprising metal particles bonded to each other and to a boiling side of the metal wall provides nucleate boiling pores to improve heat transfer. The EBL has a melting temperature that is higher than the melting temperature of the brazing material. Also disclosed is a process for assembling the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2007Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Patrick S. O'Neill, Dennis P. Held, Sr., Thomas J. Godry
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Publication number: 20090320291Abstract: Methods for manufacturing brazed aluminum heat exchangers involved in boiling and condensing, including a high performance nucleate boiling surface bonded with the walls of fin-less boiling passages. One method includes providing a first heat exchanger core subassembly including a first joinable end, at least one cooling and one boiling passage, and a first partial finless passage arranged at the joinable end. A second heat exchanger core subassembly is provided similar to the first including a second joinable end. The first and second heat exchanger core subassemblies are brazed. The first joinable end is affixed, preferably by welding, to the second joinable end and the first partial finless passage is affixed to a second partial finless passage to form a coupled finless passage, and thereby a heat exchanger core.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Patrick S. O'Neill, Thomas J. Godry, Dennis P. Held
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Publication number: 20040251008Abstract: A heat exchanger has a boiling passage and a cooling passage defined by opposite sides of metal walls. Layers of brazing material between the metal walls and a spacer member bond components of the heat exchanger together. An enhanced boiling layer (EBL) having metal particles bonded to each other and to a boiling side of the metal wall provides nucleate boiling pores to improve heat transfer. The EBL has a melting temperature that is higher than the melting temperature of the brazing material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Patrick S. O'Neill, Dennis P. Held, Thomas J. Godry
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Patent number: 6072093Abstract: A process for the production of C.sub.8 and higher olefins by the oligomerization of light olefins to heavier olefins is improved by the addition of cycloparaffins to the oligomerization zone. The recycle of the cycloparaffins extends the catalyst activity and improves the catalyst life. Cyclohexane provides an excellent solvent for removing deposits from the catalyst with chemical inertness to the process and a boiling range that allows its essentially complete recovery when producing nonenes and higher olefins from propylene feeds.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1998Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Assignee: UOP LLCInventors: Patrick S. O'Neill, Laurence O. Stine, Brian S. Muldoon, Steven C. Gimre, Robert R. Frame
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Patent number: 5091075Abstract: A process for the reforming of hydrocarbons is improved by the use of an enhanced nucleate boiling surface in a selected portion of the feed effluent heat exchanger. In a vertical type heat exchanger where the reforming feedstream enters at a lower end of the heat exchanger and is at least partially vaporized in the heat exchanger by contact with a reforming effluent stream that enters an upper end of the heat exchanger and is at least partially condensed therein, an enhanced nucleate boiling surface is formed on the heat exchange surface that is in contact with the entering liquid phase portion of the stream feed. The enhanced nucleate boiling surface increases the amount of condensing that takes place on the opposite side of the heat exchange surface in a boiling-condensing zone.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1990Date of Patent: February 25, 1992Assignee: UOPInventors: Patrick S. O'Neill, Elias G. Ragi, Thomas J. Godry
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Patent number: 4869888Abstract: This invention pertains to the field of producing ammonia. More specifically, the present invention relates to reducing the costs of producing a unit amount of ammonia, particularly the energy costs, by the utilization of an enhanced boiling surface in the refrigeration zone of the process.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 1988Date of Patent: September 26, 1989Assignee: UOPInventor: Patrick S. O'Neill
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Patent number: 4769511Abstract: The present invention is directed to an improvement in an alkylation process involving effluent refrigeration in which an enhanced boiling surface heat exchanger is utilized in the alkylation reaction zone so as to carry out the reaction at its optimum reaction temperature and at a positive compressor suction pressure.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1987Date of Patent: September 6, 1988Assignee: Union Carbide CorporationInventor: Patrick S. O'Neill