Patents by Inventor Aaron C. Hammer

Aaron C. Hammer 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).

  • Publication number: 20250092763
    Abstract: An energy harvester arrangement including a housing, a port in the housing, a first member whose position relative to the housing depends upon a Bernoulli effect on the member from a fluid flow through the port, and a piezoelectric voltage generator operably connected to the member. A method for generating electricity, comprising flowing a fluid past a member, the fluid creating pressure change dependent upon flow velocity, causing a movement of the member by the pressure change, physically deforming a piezoelectric generator with the movement, and generating a voltage with the deforming. A system including a structure having a flow path for a fluid, an energy harvesting arrangement, disposed within at least a portion of the flow path. A borehole system, including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and an arrangement disposed within or as a apart of the string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Ronnie Russell, Kamalesh Chatterjee, Daniel Ewing, Christopher Hern, Andrew Duggan, Aaron C. Hammer, Izhar Ahmad, Stewart Blake Brazil
  • Publication number: 20250043637
    Abstract: A line clamp configuration including a housing, a body attached to the housing, the body having a line contact surface, and a releaser disposed to separate the body from the housing. A control line clamp configuration including a downhole tool housing, an operable component of the downhole tool movable relative to the tool housing, a depending member on the operable component, a clamp body fastened to the housing by the depending member, a control line being releasable by removing the depending member from the clamp body. A control line clamp configuration including a split ring, a clamp body closing the split ring, and a switch to release the clamp body upon receipt of a signal. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a tool in the borehole, a clamp configuration operably connected to the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Aaron C. Hammer, John Wakefield
  • Patent number: 12203327
    Abstract: A line clamp configuration including a housing, a body attached to the housing, the body having a line contact surface, and a releaser disposed to separate the body from the housing. A control line clamp configuration including a downhole tool housing, an operable component of the downhole tool movable relative to the tool housing, a depending member on the operable component, a clamp body fastened to the housing by the depending member, a control line being releasable by removing the depending member from the clamp body. A control line clamp configuration including a split ring, a clamp body closing the split ring, and a switch to release the clamp body upon receipt of a signal. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a tool in the borehole, a clamp configuration operably connected to the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Aaron C. Hammer, John Wakefield
  • Publication number: 20240418053
    Abstract: A method of installing a downhole device includes introducing a downhole device into a wellbore, the downhole device having a shape-memory article, the shape-memory article including a shape-memory polymer, wherein the downhole device is disposed when the shape-memory article is in a compacted shape; exposing the shape-memory article to a deployment emulsion containing an activation fluid emulsified in a non-reactive fluid; breaking the deployment emulsion to release the activation fluid; and contacting the shape-memory article in the compacted shape with the released activation fluid to deploy the shape-memory article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventor: Aaron C. Hammer
  • Patent number: 12129725
    Abstract: A clamp for a line including a body, and a control line contact surface, the clamp being responsive to a selected input to facilitate displacement of the line. An expandable tool including a component having a first dimension prior to activation and a second dimension after activation, a control line disposed adjacent the component, and a clamp initially securing the control line, the clamp comprising at least one of 1) a fastener and 2) a body, at least a portion of either of which being responsive to a selected input to facilitate displacement of the control line. A method for deploying a tool with a control line including securing the control line to the tool, reacting the at least a portion of the clamp to the input, and displacing the control line. A borehole system including a borehole in a formation, and an expandable tool disposed in the borehole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Aaron C. Hammer, John Wakefield
  • Publication number: 20240084647
    Abstract: A line clamp configuration including a housing, a body attached to the housing, the body having a line contact surface, and a releaser disposed to separate the body from the housing. A control line clamp configuration including a downhole tool housing, an operable component of the downhole tool movable relative to the tool housing, a depending member on the operable component, a clamp body fastened to the housing by the depending member, a control line being releasable by removing the depending member from the clamp body. A control line clamp configuration including a split ring, a clamp body closing the split ring, and a switch to release the clamp body upon receipt of a signal. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a tool in the borehole, a clamp configuration operably connected to the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Aaron C. Hammer, John Wakefield
  • Publication number: 20240084656
    Abstract: A clamp for a line including a body, and a control line contact surface, the clamp being responsive to a selected input to facilitate displacement of the line. An expandable tool including a component having a first dimension prior to activation and a second dimension after activation, a control line disposed adjacent the component, and a clamp initially securing the control line, the clamp comprising at least one of 1) a fastener and 2) a body, at least a portion of either of which being responsive to a selected input to facilitate displacement of the control line. A method for deploying a tool with a control line including securing the control line to the tool, reacting the at least a portion of the clamp to the input, and displacing the control line. A borehole system including a borehole in a formation, and an expandable tool disposed in the borehole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Aaron C. Hammer, John Wakefield
  • Publication number: 20240060399
    Abstract: A permeable material including a plurality of hollow structures having a plurality openings therein allowing fluid transfer between an inside volume of the hollow structure and an environment outside of the hollow structure, and a bond between adjacent ones of the plurality of hollow structures. A downhole filtration tool including a mandrel, and the material disposed about the mandrel. An embodiment of a method for making a permeable material including aggregating a plurality of hollow structures into a mass, and bonding the structures together. An embodiment of a borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, and the material, disposed in the borehole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventor: Aaron C. Hammer
  • Patent number: 11649694
    Abstract: A multi-zone single trip open hole completion system includes an outer tubular assembly including an uphole end, a downhole end, an inner tubular assembly, an anchor arranged on the outer tubular assembly, and an anchor setting assembly provided on one of the outer tubular assembly and the inner tubular assembly. The anchor setting assembly is operable to selectively set the anchor. An isolation flow path is in the outer tubular. A flow control system is arranged on the inner tubular assembly. The flow control system selectively blocks flow through the inner tubular assembly. A remotely operated valve is arranged in one of the inner tubular assembly and the outer tubular assembly. The remotely operated valve is operable to close fluid flow through the tubular. An isolation packer is arranged along the outer tubular assembly. Closing the remotely operated valve enables the anchor, and the isolation packer to be set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Aaron C. Hammer, Daniel Quinton Napier
  • Publication number: 20220307346
    Abstract: A multi-zone single trip open hole completion system includes an outer tubular assembly including an uphole end, a downhole end, an inner tubular assembly, an anchor arranged on the outer tubular assembly, and an anchor setting assembly provided on one of the outer tubular assembly and the inner tubular assembly. The anchor setting assembly is operable to selectively set the anchor. An isolation flow path is in the outer tubular. A flow control system is arranged on the inner tubular assembly. The flow control system selectively blocks flow through the inner tubular assembly. A remotely operated valve is arranged in one of the inner tubular assembly and the outer tubular assembly. The remotely operated valve is operable to close fluid flow through the tubular. An isolation packer is arranged along the outer tubular assembly. Closing the remotely operated valve enables the anchor, and the isolation packer to be set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Aaron C. Hammer, Daniel Quinton Napier
  • Publication number: 20220034193
    Abstract: A slurry outlet system including a top sub, a closure sleeve movable relative to the top sub between a closed position and an open position, a seal mounted on one or the other of the top sub or the closure sleeve, a protector sleeve disposed to cover the seal until displaced by one or the other of the top sub or the closure sleeve that does not include the seal during movement to the closed position. A method for pressure sealingly closing a slurry outlet system including bringing a closure sleeve into proximity with a top sub of the slurry outlet system, displacing a protector sleeve, with the closure sleeve, off a seal disposed about the closure sleeve and simultaneously making sealing contact between the top sub and the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: James A. Smith, Aaron C. Hammer, Hector Mireles
  • Publication number: 20220034185
    Abstract: A slurry outlet system including a top sub having a seal, a closure sleeve positionable in an open position spaced from the top sub during a slurry pumping operation and a closed position wherein the closure sleeve sealingly interacts with the seal, a protector sleeve disposed to protect the seal and movable upon the closure sleeve becoming sufficiently close to the protector sleeve. A method for pressure sealingly closing a slurry outlet system including bringing a closure sleeve into proximity with a top sub of the slurry outlet system, displacing a protector sleeve, with the closure sleeve, off a seal of the top sub and simultaneously making sealing contact between the closure sleeve and the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Tom Gonzalez, Vasily Eliseev, Aaron C. Hammer, Hector Mireles, James A. Smith
  • Patent number: 11215036
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in a wellbore for performing a treatment operation is disclosed that in one non-limiting embodiment may include an inner string that further includes a first tubular having a first communication link, and a service tool including a cross-over tool having a fluid flow passage therein for supplying a treatment fluid under pressure from an inside of the service tool to an outside of the service tool, and wherein the service tool includes a second communication link operatively coupled to the first communication link and wherein the second communication link runs across or through the fluid flow passage in the cross-over tool that is protected from direct flow of the fluid under pressure from the inside of the service tool to the outside of the service tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron C. Hammer, Robert S. O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11143004
    Abstract: A method and system perform flow characteristic control. The system includes a tube inflow control device (ICD) including a tube input port. The tube ICD conveys fluid along an axial length of a tube of the tube ICD. The axial length of the tube controls a drop in pressure of the fluid between the tube input port and a corresponding tube output port. The system also includes a base pipe with an input port coupled to the tube output port of the tube of the tube ICD, wherein the base pipe is configured to convey the fluid to a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Jai Kishan Koli, Britain A. Fisher, Aaron C. Hammer
  • Patent number: 10794162
    Abstract: A method of controlling flow in a tubular including developing a pressure in the tubular with an electric submersible pump (ESP), directing a flow of fluid through a flow control device arranged on the tubular downhole of the ESP in response to the pressure, sensing a parameter of the flow of fluid, and adjusting, in real time, a flow parameter of the flow control device with a coil tubing in response to the parameter of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Stolboushkin, Aaron C. Hammer, Jason Allen, Ian Mitchell, Joshua Raymond Snitkoff
  • Publication number: 20190368313
    Abstract: A method for controlling a Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) System including injecting steam through an injector well into a formation in thermal contact with the system; automatically admitting, reducing or denying entry of fluid to a producer well through a valve based upon both of temperature and pressure. Further, a Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) System including a producer well having a valve that automatically admits, reduces or denies entry of fluid to a producer well through the valve based upon both of temperature and pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Stolboushkin, Aaron C. Hammer
  • Publication number: 20190368310
    Abstract: An autonomous valve including a housing; a chamber defined within the housing; and a piston in sealed movable contact with the housing, the piston having a piston area exposed to fluid within the chamber, and the piston having another piston area exposed to an environment outside of the housing. A Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) System including a producer well having a valve as in any previous embodiment and a method for controlling a Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) System including injecting steam through an injector well into a formation in thermal contact with the system; automatically admitting, reducing or denying entry of fluid to a producer well through a valve based upon both of temperature and pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Stolboushkin, Aaron C. Hammer
  • Patent number: 10458210
    Abstract: A method of forming a screen assembly includes arranging a first end portion of each of a plurality of rib members into a rib alignment jig, positioning a sleeve about the rib alignment jig with an inner surface of the sleeve abutting the first end portion of each of the plurality of rib members, and resistance welding the sleeve to the first end portion of each of the plurality of rib members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Jai Kishan Koli, Aaron C. Hammer
  • Publication number: 20190178065
    Abstract: A method of controlling flow in a tubular including developing a pressure in the tubular with an electric submersible pump (ESP), directing a flow of fluid through a flow control device arranged on the tubular downhole of the ESP in response to the pressure, sensing a parameter of the flow of fluid, and adjusting, in real time, a flow parameter of the flow control device with a coil tubing in response to the parameter of the fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Eugene Stolboushkin, Aaron C. Hammer, Jason Allen, Ian Mitchell, Joshua Raymond Snitkoff
  • Publication number: 20190055823
    Abstract: A method and system perform flow characteristic control. The system includes a tube inflow control device (ICD) including a tube input port. The tube ICD conveys fluid along an axial length of a tube of the tube ICD. The axial length of the tube controls a drop in pressure of the fluid between the tube input port and a corresponding tube output port. The system also includes a base pipe with an input port coupled to the tube output port of the tube of the tube ICD, wherein the base pipe is configured to convey the fluid to a surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Jai Kishan Koli, Britain A. Fisher, Aaron C. Hammer