Patents Assigned to SWM International, LLC
  • Patent number: 12291945
    Abstract: A downhole perforating gun system provides wireless electrical communication between an inner body conductor, a switch, a detonator, and a feedthrough, and further comprising a weight module and a bearing assembly wherein the weight module is rotatable by a weight via a bearing assembly based on gravity acting on one or more of the weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SWM International, LLC
    Inventors: Dan Salkhai Ang, David C. Parks, Dawna Mauldin, Sidney W. Mauldin
  • Patent number: 12291946
    Abstract: A downhole perforating gun system provides wireless electrical communication between an inner body conductor, a switch, a detonator, and a feedthrough. Ends on gun carriers of the system couple together end-to-end at end connections. Internal tapered thread is defined in an interior of each carrier's first end, and external tapered thread is defined externally on each carrier's second end. The internal tapered thread of one carrier can thread to the external tapered thread of another carrier. A metal-to-metal contact and/or an annular seal can seal the carriers' interiors from an external environment, and bulkheads can seal between the carrier's interiors at the end connections. Each bulkhead can have a feedthrough conductor to electrically conduct across the end connections. A bulkhead flange can be captured between a distal face and an internal shoulder at the end connection, and a switch can be disposed on the bulkhead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SWM International, LLC
    Inventors: David C. Parks, Dan Salkhai Ang
  • Patent number: 12270284
    Abstract: A perforating gun includes a charge holder that is positioned in a carrier. End fittings are affixed to the ends of the holder and support the holder in a longitudinal passage of the carrier. Both end fittings have electrical conductors for an electrical signal disposed therethrough. The first end fitting also has a ground conductor for a ground signal. At least one elastic conductor is attached to the holder and is engaged laterally in a direction relative to the longitudinal passage. The at least one elastic conductor is disposed in electrical communication with the carrier and the ground signal to improve the grounding of the charge assembly and its components in the gun's carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SWM International, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Nemez, Terrell C. Saltarelli, David C. Parks
  • Patent number: 12221864
    Abstract: A gun tube for a downhole perforating gun assembly includes a body having a cavity and one or more weights in the cavity. Gravity acts on the weights, which causes the tube body to rotate around its longitudinal axis so the weights are adjacent the lower part of the wellbore in which the gun assembly is positioned when oriented horizontally. This position shape charges in the gun tube in a desired position prior to the shape charges being fired. The gun tube may also include one or more end connectors with electrical contacts having a first, extended position, and a second, contracted position, and/or end connectors that can be assembled by hand without the use of tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SWM INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: Dawna Mauldin, Sidney W. Mauldin
  • Patent number: 11976539
    Abstract: A gun tube for a downhole perforating gun assembly includes a body having a cavity and one or more weights in the cavity. Gravity acts on the weights, which causes the tube body to rotate around its longitudinal axis so the weights are adjacent the lower part of the wellbore in which the gun assembly is positioned when oriented horizontally. This position shape charges in the gun tube in a desired position prior to the shape charges being fired. The gun tube may also include one or more end connectors with electrical contacts having a first, extended position, and a second, contracted position, and/or end connectors that can be assembled by hand without the use of tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SWM International, LLC
    Inventors: Dawna Mauldin, Sidney W. Mauldin
  • Patent number: 11867032
    Abstract: A downhole perforating gun system provides wireless electrical communication between an inner body conductor, a switch, a detonator, and a feedthrough. In this way, the construction of the perforating gun system is simplified and the assembly process is faster, more efficient, and more reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SWM INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: David C. Parks, Dan Salkhai Ang
  • Patent number: 11828115
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods useful for increasing the outer diameter of a tool string at a desired location in the tool string involve a spacer tool having a mandrel releasably engageable with at least one other tool of the tool string and a gauge ring distinct from and releasably, non-threadably engageable with the mandrel. The gauge ring extends radially outwardly from the mandrel to provide the spacer tool with a maximum outer diameter that is greater than the maximum outer diameter of at least one other tool in the tool string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SWM International, LLC
    Inventors: Leslie Alan Thomas, Dan Salkhai Ang
  • Patent number: 11624266
    Abstract: A gun tube for a downhole perforating gun assembly includes a body having a cavity and one or more weights in the cavity. Gravity acts on the weights, which causes the tube body to rotate around its longitudinal axis so the weights are adjacent the lower part of the wellbore in which the gun assembly is positioned when oriented horizontally. This position shape charges in the gun tube in a desired position prior to the shape charges being fired. The gun tube may also include one or more end connectors with electrical contacts having a first, extended position, and a second, contracted position, and/or end connectors that can be assembled by hand without the use of tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SWM International, LLC
    Inventors: Dawna Mauldin, Sidney W. Mauldin
  • Patent number: 11078762
    Abstract: A gun tube for a downhole perforating gun assembly includes a body having a cavity and one or more weights in the cavity. Gravity acts on the weights, which causes the tube body to rotate around its longitudinal axis so the weights are adjacent the lower part of the wellbore in which the gun assembly is positioned when oriented horizontally. This positions shape charges in the gun tube in a desired position prior to the shape charges being fired. The gun tube may also include one or more end connectors with electrical contacts having a first, extended position, and a second, contracted position, and/or end connectors that can be assembled by hand without the use of tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: SWM International, LLC
    Inventors: Dawna Mauldin, Sidney W. Mauldin