Patents Assigned to Mustang Sampling LLC
  • Patent number: 12320349
    Abstract: An improved fluid sample pump with the combination of an in-line pressure relief valve, an in-line, synthetic lubrication oiler associated with an air-actuation port, a stainless steel actuator housing with a centered air-actuation input port and a friction-reducing, anticorrosive coating on the interior thereof, an actuator piston with polyurethane O-rings, a shot-peened, zinc-coated music wire compression coil actuator piston return spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy L. Querrey, William J. Hartson
  • Patent number: 12105537
    Abstract: A multi-stage pressure regulation system, device with enhanced thermal distribution for reducing the pressure of gas passing through a gas sample conditioning system. The device and method allow for automatic and/or manual configuration settings for regulating different types of gas having different profiles while still avoiding dew point dropout thereby ensuring accurate sample analysis at a downstream analyzer. The pressure regulating device includes a housing having a core, a vapor sample input port, a plurality of openings on an upper surface, a plurality of pressure regulating valves configured to reduce the pressure of a vapor sample, an assembly having a base and substantially central stem orthogonal to the base and extending axially therefrom, the stem being disposed within the core, and an adjunct for enhanced distribution of thermal energy from the heating device to the plurality of pressure regulating valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: William C. Paluch, Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner
  • Patent number: 12098986
    Abstract: An improved liquid vaporization and conditioning system, and associated method, for efficiently vaporizing a liquid sample for accurately determining the constituent components thereof providing enhanced flow rate, pressure and thermal control, the improvement including a combination of a resistance temperature detector, a sweeping bend to, an in-line thermal break, a flow buffering input manifold, enhanced multi-path heater vaporizer construction with four heater units, a vaporizer output mixing manifold and control elements providing a capability for partial shutdown in the event of compromised heating or flow anomalies without risk of flow loss/volume capacity beyond a permissible threshold and an improved, modular heat vaporizer enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, William C. Paluch, William Hartson, Timothy L. Querrey
  • Publication number: 20240241528
    Abstract: A multi-stage pressure regulation system, device with enhanced thermal distribution for reducing the pressure of gas passing through a gas sample conditioning system. The device and method allow for automatic and/or manual configuration settings for regulating different types of gas having different profiles while still avoiding dew point dropout thereby ensuring accurate sample analysis at a downstream analyzer. The pressure regulating device includes a housing having a core, a vapor sample input port, a plurality of openings on an upper surface, a plurality of pressure regulating valves configured to reduce the pressure of a vapor sample, an assembly having a base and substantially central stem orthogonal to the base and extending axially therefrom, the stem being disposed within the core, and an adjunct for enhanced distribution of thermal energy from the heating device to the plurality of pressure regulating valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Applicant: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: William C. Paluch, Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner
  • Patent number: 11988582
    Abstract: A cryogenic liquid sampling system including a chamber having affixed therein a sample pump to pull a cryogenic liquid sample from an external source and an enclosure. The enclosure includes a supply port to receive an input stream of a gas, an input port connected to the chamber via a vacuum line, a sample pump port connected to the chamber via a pump line and configured to feed therethrough gas received at the supply port to the sample pump, a vacuum device connected to the input port and configured to generate a vacuum within the chamber by pulling air from the vacuum line, and processing circuitry to control the vacuum device and the sample pump to perform transfer of a cryogenic liquid sample from the external source to an external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, Timothy L Querrey
  • Patent number: 11971733
    Abstract: A multi-stage pressure regulation system, device and associated methodology for reducing the pressure of gas passing through a gas sample conditioning system. The device and method allow for automatic and/or manual configuration settings for regulating different types of gas having different profiles while still avoiding dew point dropout thereby ensuring accurate sample analysis at a downstream analyzer. The pressure regulating device includes a housing having a core, a vapor sample input port, a plurality of openings on an upper surface, a plurality of pressure regulating valves configured to reduce the pressure of a vapor sample, and an assembly having a base and substantially central stem orthogonal to the base and extending axially therefrom, the stem being disposed within the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, William C. Paluch
  • Publication number: 20240077065
    Abstract: An improved fluid sample pump with the combination of an in-line pressure relief valve, an in-line, synthetic lubrication oiler associated with an air-actuation port, a stainless steel actuator housing with a centered air-actuation input port and a friction-reducing, anticorrosive coating on the interior thereof, an actuator piston with polyurethane O-rings, a shot-peened, zinc-coated music wire compression coil actuator piston return spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy L. Querrey, William J. Hartson
  • Publication number: 20230280246
    Abstract: An improved liquid vaporization and conditioning system, and associated method, for efficiently vaporizing a liquid sample for accurately determining the constituent components thereof providing enhanced flow rate, pressure and thermal control, the improvement including a combination of a resistance temperature detector, a sweeping bend to, an in-line thermal break, a flow buffering input manifold, enhanced multi-path heater vaporizer construction with four heater units, a vaporizer output mixing manifold and control elements providing a capability for partial shutdown in the event of compromised heating or flow anomalies without risk of flow loss/volume capacity beyond a permissible threshold and an improved, modular heat vaporizer enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, William C. Paluch, William Hartson, Timothy L. Querrey
  • Publication number: 20230096619
    Abstract: A multi-stage pressure regulation system, device and associated methodology for reducing the pressure of gas passing through a gas sample conditioning system. The device and method allow for automatic and/or manual configuration settings for regulating different types of gas having different profiles while still avoiding dew point dropout thereby ensuring accurate sample analysis at a downstream analyzer. The pressure regulating device includes a housing having a core, a vapor sample input port, a plurality of openings on an upper surface, a plurality of pressure regulating valves configured to reduce the pressure of a vapor sample, and an assembly having a base and substantially central stem orthogonal to the base and extending axially therefrom, the stem being disposed within the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, William C. Paluch
  • Patent number: 11604125
    Abstract: An improved liquid vaporization and conditioning system, and associated method, for efficiently vaporizing a liquid sample for accurately determining the constituent components thereof providing enhanced flow rate, pressure and thermal control, the improvement including a combination of a resistance temperature detector, a sweeping bend to, an in-line thermal break, a flow buffering input manifold, enhanced multi-path heater vaporizer construction with four heater units, a vaporizer output mixing manifold and control elements providing a capability for partial shutdown in the event of compromised heating or flow anomalies without risk of flow loss/volume capacity beyond a permissible threshold and an improved, modular heat vaporizer enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O Thompson, Kevin Warner, William C. Paluch, William Hartson, Timothy L. Querrey
  • Patent number: 11573582
    Abstract: A multi-stage pressure regulation system, device and associated methodology for reducing the pressure of gas passing through a gas sample conditioning system. The device and method allow for automatic and/or manual configuration settings for regulating different types of gas having different profiles while still avoiding dew point dropout thereby ensuring accurate sample analysis at a downstream analyzer. The pressure regulating device includes a housing having a core, a vapor sample input port, a plurality of openings on an upper surface, a plurality of pressure regulating valves configured to reduce the pressure of a vapor sample, and an assembly having a base and substantially central stem orthogonal to the base and extending axially therefrom, the stem being disposed within the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, William Paluch
  • Patent number: 11536694
    Abstract: A system and method for substantially coincidental sample takeoff flow rate verification which detects unstable flow conditions in a pipeline, terminates fluid sample analysis during flow instability, and resumes sample takeoff when a steady flow state is re-established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Warner, Kenneth O. Thompson
  • Patent number: 11525761
    Abstract: A vaporizer device and associated methodology for providing accurate sampling through substantially efficient, complete and uniform single pass vaporization of a liquid sample by avoiding liquid pre-vaporization and downtime attributable to system damage from incomplete vaporization, particularly in the distribution, transportation, and custody transfer of natural gas. The vaporizer device includes at least one input port for receiving a liquid sample, a channel for directing the liquid to a vaporizer core and a heating assembly within the vaporizer core configured to flash vaporize the liquid sample. The vaporized sample can then be passed to an outlet for sample analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, William C. Paluch
  • Patent number: 11287406
    Abstract: A gas sample and conditioning device for sampling gas in storage or transport device and conditioning the gas while automatically switching between input lines based on a characteristic of the gas sample. Multiple input lines are provided within allows for flow between different input lines based on the characteristic of the gas sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy L. Querrey, Nicholas S Wolfe
  • Patent number: 11248735
    Abstract: A multi-component in-line thermal break including concentrical arranges, an outer thermally insulating body, an elongated axial insert incorporating integrated pipe fittings, and a thermally non-conductive fluid channel tube set within the elongated axial insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O Thompson, Kevin Warner, William C. Paluch
  • Publication number: 20220018737
    Abstract: A cryogenic liquid sampling system including a chamber having affixed therein a sample pump to proportionally pull a cryogenic liquid sample from an external source to a constant pressure piston accumulator and an enclosure. The enclosure includes a supply port to receive an input stream of a gas, an input port connected to the chamber via a vacuum line, a sample pump port connected to the chamber via a pump line and configured to feed therethrough gas received at the supply port to the sample pump, a vacuum device connected to the input port and configured to generate a vacuum within the chamber by pulling air from the vacuum line, and processing circuitry to control the vacuum device and the sample pump to perform transfer of a cryogenic liquid sample from the external source to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, Timothy L. Querrey
  • Publication number: 20210405668
    Abstract: A multi-stage pressure regulation system, device and associated methodology for reducing the pressure of gas passing through a gas sample conditioning system. The device and method allow for automatic and/or manual configuration settings for regulating different types of gas having different profiles while still avoiding dew point dropout thereby ensuring accurate sample analysis at a downstream analyzer. The pressure regulating device includes a housing having a core, a vapor sample input port, a plurality of openings on an upper surface, a plurality of pressure regulating valves configured to reduce the pressure of a vapor sample, and an assembly having a base and substantially central stem orthogonal to the base and extending axially therefrom, the stem being disposed within the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, William Paluch
  • Patent number: 11144078
    Abstract: A multi-stage pressure regulation system, device and associated methodology for reducing the pressure of gas passing through a gas sample conditioning system. The device and method allow for automatic and/or manual configuration settings for regulating different types of gas having different profiles while still avoiding dew point dropout thereby ensuring accurate sample analysis at a downstream analyzer. The pressure regulating device includes a housing having a core, a vapor sample input port, a plurality of openings on an upper surface, a plurality of pressure regulating valves configured to reduce the pressure of a vapor sample, and an assembly having a base and substantially central stem orthogonal to the base and extending axially therefrom, the stem being disposed within the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, William Paluch
  • Patent number: D973849
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, William Paluch
  • Patent number: D1063006
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Mustang Sampling, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth O. Thompson, Kevin Warner, William C. Paluch