Patents by Inventor Thomas R. Amerman

Thomas R. Amerman 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: 7017650
    Abstract: Wellbore heat loop systems, fillers for bores in the systems, and methods of the use of such systems; the systems in certain aspects having a heat loop wellbore in the earth having heat loop pipe extending down to one side of a bottom member and up therefrom on another side thereof, the bottom member in certain aspects having a body with first and second bores therethrough, the second bore sized and configured for securement thereat of an end of coil tubing; and, in certain aspects, filler material around the heat loop in the wellbore with a gel material mixed with the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Enlink Geoenergy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard E. Johnson, Jr., Gregory R. Tinkler, Thomas R. Amerman
  • Patent number: 6860320
    Abstract: Bottom members for a heat loop for an earth energy transfer system with a moving energy transfer fluid and heat loops with such a bottom member; the bottom member in one aspect including a body with a top surface and a bottom surface, the body configured for connection at a lower end of the heat loop, the bottom surface shaped to facilitate passage of the heat loop through a borehole extending down into the earth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Enlink Geoenergy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard E. Johnson, Jr., Thomas R. Amerman
  • Publication number: 20040194914
    Abstract: Bottom members for a heat loop for an earth energy transfer system with a moving energy transfer fluid and heat loops with such a bottom member; the bottom member in one aspect including a body with a top surface and a bottom surface, the body configured for connection at a lower end of the heat loop, the bottom surface shaped to facilitate passage of the heat loop through a borehole extending down into the earth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Howard E. Johnson, Thomas R. Amerman
  • Publication number: 20040031585
    Abstract: Wellbore heat loop ssystems, fillers for bores in the systems, and methods of the use of such systems; the systems in certain aspects having a heat loop wellbore in the earth having heat loop pipe extending down to one side of a bottom memeber and up therefrom on another side thereof, the bottom member in certaqin aspects having a body with first and second bores therethrough, the second bore sized and configured for securement thereat of an end of coil tubing; and, in certain aspects, filler material around the heat loop in the wellbore with a gel material mixed with the water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: Howard E. Johnson, Gregory M. Tinkler, Thomas R. Amerman
  • Patent number: 6672371
    Abstract: An earth wellbore heat loop system has been developed which has, in certain aspects, a heat loop wellbore in the earth extending from an earth surface down into the earth to a bottom of the wellbore, a heat loop disposed in the heat loop wellbore and extending down to a position near the bottom thereof, the heat loop including a heat loop comprising pipe and a bottom member, the pipe extending down to the bottom member on one side thereof and up from the bottom member on another side thereof, the bottom member comprising a body, a first bore through the body extending from a first opening of the body to a second opening of the body, the first opening and the second opening each sized and configured for receipt therein of an end of a heat loop pipe, a second bore having at least a one opening on the body, the second bore sized and configured for securement thereat of an end of coil tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Enlink Geoenergy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Amerman, Howard E. Johnson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6585036
    Abstract: An earth energy transfer system with a moving energy transfer fluid, the system for transferring energy for an entity, the system, in certain aspects, having apparatus and related items for measuring an amount of energy transferred for the entity to or from the moving energy transfer fluid, and apparatus and related items for invoicing the entity for the amount of energy transferred. The system, in certain aspects, including apparatus and related items for calculating a price for the amount of energy transferred, said invoicing based on said price. The system, in certain aspects, including apparatus and related items for transmitting a signal indicative of a measured amount of energy transferred from the apparatus and related items for measuring to the apparatus and related items for invoicing. Methods are disclosed for using such systems to measure and calculate an amount of energy transferred and/or to invoice an entity for the transferred energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Enlink Geoenergy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Amerman, Howard E. Johnson, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20020104643
    Abstract: An earth energy transfer system with a moving energy transfer fluid, the system for transferring energy for an entity, the system, in certain aspects, having apparatus and related items for measuring an amount of energy transferred for the entity to or from the moving energy transfer fluid, and apparatus and related items for invoicing the entity for the amount of energy transferred. The system, in certain aspects, including apparatus and related items for calculating a price for the amount of energy transferred, said invoicing based on said price. The system, in certain aspects, including apparatus and related items for transmitting a signal indicative of a measured amount of energy transferred from the apparatus and related items for measuring to the apparatus and related items for invoicing. Methods are disclosed for using such systems to measure and calculate an amount of energy transferred and/or to invoice an entity for the transferred energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas R. Amerman, Howard E. Johnson
  • Patent number: 6276438
    Abstract: An earth energy transfer system with a moving energy transfer fluid, the system for transferring energy for an entity, the system, in certain aspects, having apparatus and related items for measuring an amount of energy transferred for the entity to or from the moving energy transfer fluid, and apparatus and related items for invoicing the entity for the amount of energy transferred. The system, in certain aspects, including apparatus and related items for calculating a price for the amount of energy transferred, said invoicing based on said price. The system, in certain aspects, including apparatus and related items for transmitting a signal indicative of a measured amount of energy transferred from the apparatus and related items for measuring to the apparatus and related items for invoicing. Methods are disclosed for using such systems to measure and calculate an amount of energy transferred and/or to invoice an entity for the transferred energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Inventors: Thomas R. Amerman, Howard E. Johnson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6250371
    Abstract: An earth energy loop transfer system with a moving energy transfer fluid, the system for transferring energy for an entity, the system having means for measuring an amount of energy transferred for the entity to or from the moving energy transfer fluid, and means for invoicing the entity for the amount of energy transferred. The system including means for calculating a price for the amount of energy transferred, said invoicing based on said price. The system including means for transmitting a signal indicative of a measured amount of energy transferred from the means for measuring to the means for invoicing. Methods are disclosed for using such systems to measure and calculate an amount of energy transferred and/or to invoice an entity for the transferred energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Enlink Geoenergy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Amerman, Howard E. Johnson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6041862
    Abstract: A system and method for simultaneously installing a pipe loop and a grout pipe in a wellbore has been invented which, in one aspect, is used to grout the wellbore by releasing the grout pipe from the pipe loop or from a bottom member connected with the pipe loop and then introducing grout through the pipe into the wellbore as the grout pipe is removed upwardly from the wellbore. In one aspect the system has a curved member or members or a ball or part thereof at the bottom of the pipes to facilitate movement of the system through a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Inventor: Thomas R. Amerman
  • Patent number: 5758724
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and method for simultaneously installing a pipe loop and a grout pipe in a wellbore. In another aspect such a system is then used to grout the wellbore by releasing the grout pipe from the pipe loop or from a bottom member connected with the pipe loop and then introducing grout through the pipe into the wellbore as the grout pipe is removed upwardly from the wellbore. In another aspect a drilling-grouting system is provided with which while one hole is being drilled a previously-drilled hole is being grouted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Enlink Geoenergy Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas R. Amerman
  • Patent number: 5590715
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and method for simultaneously installing a pipe loop and a grout pipe in a wellbore. In another aspect such a system is then used to grout the wellbore by releasing the grout pipe from the pipe loop or from a bottom member connected with the pipe loop and then introducing grout through the pipe into the wellbore as the grout pipe is removed upwardly from the wellbore. In another aspect a drilling-grouting system is provided with which while one hole is being drilled a previously-drilled hole is being grouted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Inventor: Thomas R. Amerman