Patents Examined by Kyle Armstrong
  • Inflatable water barrier assembly
    Patent number: 10760231
    Abstract: An inflatable water barrier assembly includes a plurality of boundary units. Each of the boundary units can be linked together on a support surface to define a boundary around a selected area to inhibit flood water from entering the selected area. Each of the boundary units has a lower portion that is fluidly discrete from an upper portion. The lower portion is fillable with water to weighing down the boundary units. The upper portion of each of the boundary units is inflatable with air to inhibit the flood water from passing thereover. A plurality of anchors is engages a respective one of the boundary units. Each of the anchors penetrates a support surface to inhibit the respective boundary unit from being moved by flood water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Inventor: Andrew Klose
  • Inspection of grouting between monopile and transition piece on offshore wind turbines
    Patent number: 10746673
    Abstract: An inspection system may be deployed as part of a routine crew transfer diving (“CTV”) or service operation vessel (SOV) deployment to perform inspections for analyses which can be conducted while carrying out other inspection tasks. A marinized digital detector array and betatron source may be maneuvered proximate a first detector plate, which can be of a plurality of detector plates and a first exposure generated at the first detector plate which is then used to aid in generating one or more images comprising each such exposure. The images are then reconstructed to identify defects in the grout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Oceaneering International, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajashekar Venkatachalam, Nate Dieringer, Todd Newell
  • Robust device for spreading sand at predetermined dimensions and for placing ducts in a sewerage channel
    Patent number: 10738456
    Abstract: The application relates to a robust self-propelled device, having an oblong shape and a self-supporting housing (1) of the exoskeleton type, having attached a winch (10) and that is supported by a rail track (8), comprising active parts and supporting parts: a levelling blade (2) connected by means of swiveling rods (9) to the housing exoskeleton and in the top part thereof to a laser receiver (6) by a removable graduated rod (5), also in the rear part it is provided with an active device for placing ducts (3). The said device is operated by an actuating and control panel (7), mounted by means of a removable supporting rod (4). The said device serving to eliminate the need for the human presence in the sewerage channel, preventing the risk of accidents, increasing the construction rate, increasing the accuracy in laying the sand base and also placing the sewerage duct on the sand base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Inventor: Sorin Dinu
  • Foundation for a windmill
    Patent number: 10724204
    Abstract: In a foundation for a windmill with a circular or polygonal pedestal for supporting a windmill tower and a plurality of ribs, which project radially outwards from the pedestal, the pedestal is divided into a plurality of circumferential portions, wherein a circumferential portion and a rib are each formed by at least one prefabricated concrete element, respectively, and wherein the prefabricated concrete elements are made of reinforced concrete, which includes a first reinforcement structure, which includes radial tensioning elements, in particular tension rods or tensioning strands, for stressing the prefabricated concrete elements. A second reinforcement structure is also provided, which holds the circumferential portions together and is coupled with the first reinforcement structure, in particular the radial tensioning elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: HOLCIM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Christian Schuldt, Arne Stecher
  • Flap gate drainage systems for coupling to a wall
    Patent number: 10711421
    Abstract: Single-door flap gates and double-door flap gates are disclosed. A first flap gate includes a first door coupled with a first hinge, a second door coupled with a second hinge, wherein the first door and the second door together form a continuous concave surface, wherein the first hinge and the second hinge couple with a wall, and wherein, when in a closed position, the first door and the second door rest against the wall to cover an opening thereof. The opening may correspond to an end of a pipe that extends away from the first door and the second door. Further, the continuous concave surface may include a radius of curvature configured to be substantially similar to a radius of curvature of the wall, wherein the wall may be interior wall of a cylindrical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Inventor: Jeremy Hohnbaum
  • System for re-tensioning mine roof channels
    Patent number: 10704389
    Abstract: A system for re-tensioning mine roof channels includes a roof plate having a first side, a second side positioned opposite the first side, and a sidewall extending therebetween, where the first side is configured to engage a surface of a mine roof, and where the sidewall defines a radially extending slot configured to receive a mine roof bolt. The system also includes a spacer having a first side, a second side positioned opposite the first side, and a sidewall extending therebetween, with the first side of the spacer configured to engage with the second side of the roof plate, and the sidewall defining a slot configured to receive a mine roof bolt, and a nut having a first side, a second side positioned opposite the first side, a sidewall therebetween, and a threaded opening, with the sidewall defining a radially extending slot configured to receive a mine roof bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FCI Holdings Delaware, Inc.
    Inventors: Ben Mirabile, Brandon Shane Stables
  • Coupling device
    Patent number: 10704218
    Abstract: Described are various embodiments for coupling devices for dock installations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: DREAM VIEW ENCLOSURES INC.
    Inventor: Adrian J. Assinck
  • Inflatable dam and method thereof
    Patent number: 10697143
    Abstract: Embodiments of an inflatable dam sized to be secured to a foundation structure with an anchor line. The inflatable dam includes a main bladder and an overlapping layer. The main bladder is moveable between deflated and inflated states such that, in the inflated state, the main bladder extends with a tubular configuration. The overlapping layer is sized and configured to extend over a portion of the main bladder and, in the inflated state, concentrically aligned with the portion of the main bladder. The overlapping layer is sized to extend with an overlapping length and to extend laterally between a first end portion and a second end portion along the overlapping length, the first end portion being coupled to the fin structure and the second end portion being configured to be coupled to the anchor line and the foundation structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: HTE Engineering LLC
    Inventors: Dong Pan, David Sanders
  • Rotation bearing of flap gate and flap gate
    Patent number: 10697144
    Abstract: An axis positioning mechanism serving as a rotation bearing of a flap gate includes a housing disposed at the bottom of an opening, a first rotating plate rotationally supported by the housing via a first shaft, a second rotating plate rotationally supported by the housing via a second shaft having a different axis from the first shaft, and a synchronizing rod rotationally connected to the rotating plates so as to synchronize the rotations of the rotating plates. The axis positioning mechanism further includes connecting members rotationally connecting a door base and the rotating plates with different axes. The door is laid flat with a pivot at a higher position than the axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Zosen Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Kimura, Kunie Miyamoto, Toshiaki Morii, Yoshito Yamakawa, Kyoichi Nakayasu
  • Thermal in situ sustainable remediation system and method for groundwater and soil restoration
    Patent number: 10688545
    Abstract: A closed-loop system and method for heating of target contaminant zones having environmental contaminants of concern present in the groundwater and the soil by thermal conduction, and subsequent enhancements of physical, biological and chemical processes to attenuate, remove and degrade contaminants in the target contaminant treatment zones, is disclosed. The system and method collects solar or other heat and transfers the heat via a closed-loop and a set of borehole exchangers to subsurface soil in the proximity of and/or directly to the target contaminant treatment zones. The target contaminant treatment zone may comprise contaminated soil, contaminated groundwater in an aquifer, or industrial waste comprising water and/or solids. Solar collectors or heat exchangers capturing waste heat from industrial processes may be used as the heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: ARCADIS CORPORATE SERVICES INC.
    Inventors: Cullen Flanders, Davinder Singh Randhawa, John LaChance, Philip W. Visser
  • Soil modification apparatuses and methods of using the same
    Patent number: 10669685
    Abstract: Apparatuses are configured to modify wet subgrades prepare the same for constructions, namely for building roads and/or buildings thereon. The soil modification apparatuses spread mineral material from a truck having increased traction for maneuvering over the wet subgrades. Methods of using the same are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Inventor: Christopher Hogan
  • Base pad for pier support
    Patent number: 10669688
    Abstract: A base pad includes a main body that has a top side and a bottom side. The top side is configured to receive a pier support. The base pad includes a plurality of ribs positioned on the bottom side of the main body. The base pad includes at least one aperture that is defined by the main body. The aperture passes through the top side to the bottom side of the main body. The aperture is configured to receive a fastener for securing the pier support to the top side of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: PIER OF D' NORT CORP.
    Inventor: Carl Surges
  • Pumpable resin system
    Patent number: 10669848
    Abstract: A rock bolt system includes a fitting including a main body defining a central opening configured to receive a rock bolt and a grout body defining a space between the main body and the grout body, with the main body defining a grout opening in fluid communication with the central opening. The main body is rotatable relative to the grout body, with the grout body defining a resin port and a catalyst port. The resin port and the catalyst port are in fluid communication with the space and the grout opening of the main body. The system further includes a rock bolt defining a central opening, with the central opening of the rock bolt configured to be in fluid communication with the central opening of the fitting when the rock bolt is secured to the fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: J-LOK Co.
    Inventors: Dakota Faulkner, John C. Stankus, Richard Wharton, Lumin Ma
  • Technical fish lock
    Patent number: 10655290
    Abstract: Migrating fish often want to travel between different bodies of water, which may be positioned at different heights. To overcome these heights, water passages may be used that provide a water path at a slope over which a fish is able to swim up. A compact housing is provided by allowing a water guide over which the water flow flows to rotate around an axis parallel to gravity in a helical shape. The fish lock may be provided with a resting chamber which comprises a volume of water with a low flow velocity. Sensors and a controller may be provided to control a flow rate of the water through the fish lock according to for example the type of fish passing through the fish lock and an administrator may monitor the fish lock at a distance and may be contacted in case of malfunction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: J.J. van Boxel Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Jan Jacobus Van Boxel
  • Apparatus and method for direct tie-in of subsea pipelines
    Patent number: 10655757
    Abstract: A method of installing a subsea pipeline having a direct tie-in to a subsea structure includes landing an end of a pipeline onto a pipeline landing frame, the pipeline landing frame being on a surface of a subsea structure, the pipeline landing frame providing a location for landing the end of the pipeline before connection to a connection point of the subsea structure; subsequently lowering the pipeline end; and connecting the pipeline end to a connection point of the subsea structure. A pipeline landing frame for implementing the method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: EQUINOR ENERGY AS
    Inventors: Geir Endal, Per R. Nystrøm
  • Land drainage vacuum lift system and method
    Patent number: 10648137
    Abstract: A land drainage apparatus, system, and method utilize a vacuum pump and atmospheric pressure to lift water from a collection basin to a level above a fluid intake level. After a certain amount of water is lifted and collected in a second chamber above the level of the collection basin, the vacuum can be broken, enabling the water to flow out of the second chamber by gravity flow to an exit, wherein the exit is above the fluid level intake and below the second chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventor: Dennis Hurley
  • Marine pipelaying friction clamp device
    Patent number: 10648590
    Abstract: A marine pipelaying friction clamp device for frictionally retaining an offshore subsea pipeline to be launched into the sea includes a frame which includes a main frame structure that is adapted to be supported by the pipelaying vessel. The frame supports multiple annular arrays of clamping units adapted to simultaneously engage separate portions of the pipeline. The frame further includes one or more mobile subframes for one or more of said annular arrays of clamping units. Each of said one or more mobile subframes is movably supported by the main frame structure so as to be mobile relative to said main frame structure in said longitudinal direction of the clamp device, and each of said one or more mobile subframes is supported by a spring assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ITREC B.V.
    Inventors: Jeroen Adrianus Joseph Donkers, Terence Willem August Vehmeijer, Stefan Cornells Van Ruyven, Joop Roodenburg, Wouter Johannes Slob
  • Compressive grout mix for use in absorbing compressive or deformation stresses of subterranean formations
    Patent number: 10647904
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a compressible grout mix for filling an annular gap between a tunnel rock wall surface and a tunnel liner of a tunnel in a rock formation subject to time dependent deformation after excavation and a method of filling the annular gap between a tunnel rock wall surface and a funnel liner of a tunnel in a rock formation subject to time dependent deformation after excavation utilizing the compressible grout mix for resilient absorption of forces in the hardened state of the compressible grout mix exerted by the time dependent deformation of the rock wall surface into the tunnel opening. The method includes: a. providing a compressible grout mix comprising hydraulic binding agent, bentonite clay, polymer foam particles, water, and one or more additives selected from water-reducing admixture and/or setting retarding admixture, aggregate materials, anti-wash agents and air, b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventor: Tony Dimillo
  • Wave energy control device
    Patent number: 10640939
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and device (1000) for controlling hydroelastic surface waves and to the use thereof. In particular, the invention relates to a system for controlling hydroelastic waves propagating over the surface of a liquid (1), the controlling system comprising a floating composite structure (10) having at least two zones Z1 and Z2 the respective bending coefficients D1 and D2 and/or the shapes of which are adapted to control the propagation of the hydroelastic waves, and for which it is possible to define an index ni, i being equal to 1 or 2, similar to the refractive index of an optical medium. The controlling system thus allows the propagation of the hydroelastic waves to be able to be controlled by applying the laws of geometric optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université
    Inventors: Antonin Eddi, Lucie Domino, Marc Fermigier
  • Connecting system and method for connecting two conduits in a body of water
    Patent number: 10641064
    Abstract: A system for connecting two conduits in a body of water, exhibits a first tubular structure, which is coupled to a conduit that extends along a first longitudinal axis; a second tubular structure, which is coupled to another conduit that extends along a second longitudinal axis and comprises a tubular member, and a sleeve, which is telescopically coupled to the tubular member, and faces the first tubular structure; and an actuating assembly, which comprises a bidirectional translating device configured to selectively displace the sleeve forward and backward to selectively couple and uncouple an end portion of the sleeve and the first tubular structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SAIPEM S.p.A.
    Inventors: Diego Lazzarin, Gianluca Toso, Alessandro Radicioni