Patents Assigned to kinetic
  • REMOTE UNDERWATER ROBOTIC ACTUATOR
    Publication number: 20220010658
    Abstract: An underwater robotic system includes a frame for deployment in a body of water and having a control panel with multiple controls. A first actuator on the frame selectively actuates a control from a front side of the panel. A second actuator on the frame selectively actuates a control from a back side of the panel. One or more controls on the panel is configured to regulate distribution of a fluid. The frame is configured to couple to a blowout preventer. A method for robotic fluid distribution in an underwater environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Kinetic Pressure Control Limited
    Inventors: Steven Angstmann, Bobby Gallagher
  • Explosive disconnect
    Patent number: 11187052
    Abstract: A coupling system includes a lower marine riser package having a connector at a bottom end and a blowout preventer having a connector at an upper end. Explosively frangible fasteners with explosively frangible nuts sealed off from the external environment are used to couple the connector on the lower marine riser package to the connector on the blowout preventer. A method for separating a lower marine riser package from a blowout preventer includes electronically triggering the detonation of a plurality of explosively frangible fasteners coupling the blowout preventer to the lower marine riser package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Kinetic Pressure Control Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Angstmann, Bobby Gallagher, Billy Gallagher
  • BALL SPIN RATE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20210362027
    Abstract: A system and method wherein ball spin rate and axis orientation are determined according to an electronic circuit that includes a magnetometer spin sensor module and, in the alternative, an electronic circuit that includes a spin sensor module with a plurality of accelerometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Diamond Kinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Minmin Zhang, Jeremy Michael Rittenhouse, Michael J. Ressler, William Walker Clark
  • PRESSURE CONTROL DEVICE WITH SAFETY LOCKING MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20210340842
    Abstract: A well pressure control device includes a housing having a through bore. A pressure chamber has a piston movably disposed therein. The pressure chamber is coupled at one end to the housing transversely to the through bore. The actuating piston defines a pressure source side and a through bore side of the pressure chamber. A fluid pressure source is coupled to the other end of the pressure chamber. A closure element is disposed in the pressure chamber on the through bore side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Kinetic Pressure Control Ltd.
    Inventors: Bobby Gallagher, Steven A. Angstmann, Billy Gallagher
  • BLOWOUT PREVENTER
    Publication number: 20210340833
    Abstract: A blowout preventer and method of operating a wellbore. The blowout preventer has a main body containing a wellbore, a passage transverse to the wellbore, a shearing device located in the passage; and a charge that, when activated, propels the shearing device along the passage and across the wellbore to close the wellbore and prevent a blowout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Kinetic Pressure Control, Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Anthony Angstmann, Bobby James Gallagher
  • Thermal management in high power RF MEMS switches
    Patent number: 11114265
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a mechanism for making a MEMS switch that can switch large electrical powers. Extra landing electrodes are employed that provide added electrical contact along the MEMS device so that when in contact current and heat are removed from the MEMS structure close to the hottest points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Cavendish Kinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robertus Petrus Van Kampen, Richard L. Knipe
  • KINETIC RAM HAVING PRESSURE RELIEF DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210262311
    Abstract: A kinetic ram for a blowout preventer includes a pressure chamber having a piston movably disposed therein. A gas generating charge disposed at one end of the pressure chamber. A ram is coupled to the piston on a side of the piston opposed to the gas generating charge. The ram is arranged to move across a through bore in a blowout preventer housing disposed at an opposed end of the pressure chamber. An initial volume in the pressure chamber between the one end and the piston is chosen to limit a maximum pressure caused by actuating the gas generating charge to a predetermined maximum pressure, and/or the pressure chamber comprises a pressure relief device arranged to vent pressure in the pressure chamber above the maximum pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Kinetic Pressure Control Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Angstmann, Bobby Gallagher, Billy Gallagher
  • Blowout preventer
    Patent number: 11098551
    Abstract: A blowout preventer and method of closing a wellbore. The blowout prevented has a main body containing a wellbore, a passage transverse to the wellbore, a shearing device located in the passage; and a charge that, when activated, propels the shearing device along the passage and across the wellbore to close the wellbore and prevent a blowout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Kinetic Pressure Control Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Anthony Angstmann, Bobby James Gallagher
  • Ball spin rate measurement system and method
    Patent number: 11083951
    Abstract: A system and method wherein ball spin rate and axis orientation are determined according to an electronic circuit that includes a magnetometer spin sensor module and, in the alternative, an electronic circuit that includes a spin sensor module with a plurality of accelerometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Diamond Kinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Minmin Zhang, Jeremy Michael Rittenhouse, Michael J. Ressler, William Walker Clark
  • Grease channel for reducing gas permeation into vacuum chambers
    Patent number: 11085420
    Abstract: A flywheel device includes an enclosure, a top plate that fastens to the enclosure, where the top plate includes a first opening, and a cap, where the cap has a top side and a bottom side, which when fastened to the first opening forms a seal between the bottom side and the first opening, the bottom side including an o-ring groove configured to hold an o-ring, a grease channel concentric with the o-ring groove, and an inlet port configured to enable grease to flow into the grease channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Amber Kinetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Bakholdin, Peter Thomas Tennessen, Matthew Brandon Garten, Mark J. Holloway
  • Blowout preventer
    Patent number: 11066892
    Abstract: A blowout preventer includes a main housing containing a through bore. A first chamber is arranged transverse to the through bore. A second chamber is transverse to the through bore and is diametrically opposed to the first chamber. A first shearing device is located in the first chamber and a second shearing device located in the second chamber. The blowout preventer includes a charge that when activated propels each shearing device along its respective chamber and across the through bore into the opposing chamber, such that the first and second shearing devices are adjacent each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Kinetic Pressure Control Ltd.
    Inventors: Bobby James Gallagher, Steven Anthony Angstmann, Billy Jack Gallagher
  • Exercise chair
    Patent number: 11045690
    Abstract: A device for moving the back and core muscles while sitting includes a rocking assembly that sits atop a base assembly, and optionally a height adjustment mechanism between the rocking assembly and the base assembly. The rocking assembly further includes a rocking mechanism that sits between a base plate or platform and a seat. The rocking mechanism can be, for example, a hollow or solid hemispheric- or dome-shaped rocking mechanism, an eccentric bicylinder rocking mechanism, and/or a rocking mechanism based on an arrangement of halfpipe members. The rocking mechanisms of the exercise chair allow to the seat to rock, wobble, and/or swivel with a side-to-side rocking motion, a front-to-back rocking motion, or both a side-to-side rocking motion and a front-to-back rocking motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Kinetic Furniture of Vermont LLC
    Inventors: Turner Osler, Alexis Osler
  • Iris Valve Type Well Annular Pressure Control Device and Method
    Publication number: 20210189826
    Abstract: A well annular pressure control device includes a housing having a through bore and at least two iris valves within the housing. The iris valves comprise a plurality of vanes operable between an open position and a closed position to define an opening. At least one actuator is coupled to the plurality of vanes to move the plurality of vanes between the open position and the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Kinetic Pressure Control. Ltd.
    Inventors: Bobby Gallagher, Steven Angstmann, Billy Gallagher
  • Flow cytometry apparatus and methods
    Patent number: 11035778
    Abstract: A particle analyzer, comprising a source of a substantially nondiffracting light beam; a flow path configured to produce in a flowcell a ribbon-like core stream having a specific cross-sectional aspect ratio; the flowcell being configured to expose a segment of the core stream to the light beam; a detector configured to receive a signal resulting from an interaction of a particle in the core stream with the light beam; a first sorting actuator connected with the flowcell, downstream of the exposed segment of core stream; a plurality of sorting channels in fluid connection with the flow path and downstream of the first actuator; the actuator having multiple actuation states, each state configured to direct at least one part of the core stream to a corresponding channel; a second sorting actuator connected with the flowcell, opposite the first actuator, and operable in coordination with the first actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Kinetic River Corp.
    Inventor: Giacomo Vacca
  • Kinetic shear ram for well pressure control apparatus
    Patent number: 11028664
    Abstract: A blowout preventer has a main body having a through bore. A housing is mounted to the main body and defines a passage connected to and transverse to the through bore. An isolation ring cutter is initially disposed around the through bore and closes the passage to fluid flow. The isolation ring cutter is movable along the passage and has an opening coincident with the through bore. A piston and gate are disposed in the passage spaced apart from the isolation ring cutter. A propellant charge is disposed between the piston and an end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Kinetic Pressure Control Ltd.
    Inventors: Bobby James Gallagher, Billy Jack Gallagher
  • Identification and analysis of movement using sensor devices
    Patent number: 11030918
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for using sensor devices that include accelerometers and gyroscopes to detect and monitor movement of a body. The sensor devices may be coupled to a body in a predefined arrangement, where a sensor device is positioned on a particular portion of the body in accordance with the predefined arrangement. The sensor devices measure a position of the portion of the body to which the band is secured during movement and communicate the position to a client device to be used in generating and updating a three-dimensional reconstruction of the movement performed in near-real-time. Further, the client device may determine whether the movement performed conforms to a predefined movement and, in response to the movement not conforming to the predefined movement, a suggested change in the movement is identified that, if performed, would conform to the predefined movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Kinetic Telemetry, LLC
    Inventors: David Alan Wallach, Brian E. Welcher, Miles Gantt, Kyle Carnahan
  • Switching voltage regulators with phase-lock loops and lock range extension
    Patent number: 11018583
    Abstract: Adaptive on-time switching voltage regulator circuits and methods therefor provided. In some embodiments, a voltage regulator comprises: a switching circuit configured to generate a switching signal at a switching node according to a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal; a phase-lock loop (PLL) configured to lock the PWM signal to a clock reference signal, the PLL comprising: a PWM signal generator configured to generate the PWM signal according to an error signal, and a phase detector configured to generate the error signal based on the PWM signal and the clock reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Kinetic Technologies
    Inventors: Sofjan Goenawan, Jan Nilsson, Brian North, Karl Richard Volk
  • Visual display device with bead transport control
    Patent number: 11017697
    Abstract: A visual display device creating various visual and audible effects from the motion of light particulate matter, such as beads of expanded polystyrene, comprising a chamber through which a stream of air flow is configured to agitate, fluidize, suspend, or float at least some of the beads. The device also includes a bead transport control subsystem to control the flow of some beads through a conduit from one region of a chamber in the device to another different region in the chamber of the visual display device. The bead transport control subsystem comprises the conduit and a second stream of airflow into or out of a portion of the conduit through a screened opening to prevent or create fluid-like flow of the beads through the conduit that is controlled at least partially independently from the first stream of airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Airflow Kinetics, LLC
    Inventor: Gordon Sharp
  • Systems and methods for providing intelligent constant on-time control
    Patent number: 10985656
    Abstract: A system that provides intelligent constant on-time control may include a first switch coupled to a power input; a second switch coupled to the first switch; a switching node between the first switch and the second switch, the switching node configured to be connected to an inductor and a power output; feedback paths coupled to (1) a synthesized node and (2) the power output, the feedback paths enabling feedback of signals from (1) the synthesized node, and (2) the power output; and a controller coupled to the feedback paths. The controller may be configured to control a voltage at the power output based on a combination of the signals carried by the feedback paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Kinetic Technologies
    Inventors: Xin Zhang, Jan Nilsson, William Robert Pelletier
  • System for elevated speed firearms training
    Patent number: 10969190
    Abstract: A system to advance human performance in sighting, tracking, recognizing, and reacting to (collectively “engaging”) moving and stationary objects, for example, advancing skill in engaging targets with a firearm. The system provides elevated ocular tactical conditioning including kinetic saccadic eye tracking hardware and training for elevate sighting and tracking performance, and rapid subject matter recognition training to elevate fine motor skills and target and non-target stimuli recognition performance. Components include software and hardware that provide target and non-target image stimuli that can be manually or automatically generated as stationary or moving stimuli.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Conflict Kinetics Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Stanley