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).
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Publication number: 20250092763Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Ronnie Russell, Kamalesh Chatterjee, Daniel Ewing, Christopher Hern, Andrew Duggan, Aaron C. Hammer, Izhar Ahmad, Stewart Blake Brazil
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Publication number: 20250043637Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Aaron C. Hammer, John Wakefield
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Patent number: 12203327Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Aaron C. Hammer, John Wakefield
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Publication number: 20240418053Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: December 19, 2024Inventor: Aaron C. Hammer
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Patent number: 12129725Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Aaron C. Hammer, John Wakefield
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Publication number: 20240084647Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Aaron C. Hammer, John Wakefield
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Publication number: 20240084656Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Aaron C. Hammer, John Wakefield
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Publication number: 20240060399Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventor: Aaron C. Hammer
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Patent number: 11649694Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Aaron C. Hammer, Daniel Quinton Napier
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Publication number: 20220307346Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Aaron C. Hammer, Daniel Quinton Napier
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Publication number: 20220034193Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: James A. Smith, Aaron C. Hammer, Hector Mireles
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Publication number: 20220034185Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Tom Gonzalez, Vasily Eliseev, Aaron C. Hammer, Hector Mireles, James A. Smith
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Patent number: 11215036Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Aaron C. Hammer, Robert S. O'Brien
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Patent number: 11143004Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Jai Kishan Koli, Britain A. Fisher, Aaron C. Hammer
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Patent number: 10794162Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Eugene Stolboushkin, Aaron C. Hammer, Jason Allen, Ian Mitchell, Joshua Raymond Snitkoff
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Publication number: 20190368313Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Eugene Stolboushkin, Aaron C. Hammer
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Publication number: 20190368310Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Eugene Stolboushkin, Aaron C. Hammer
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Patent number: 10458210Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Jai Kishan Koli, Aaron C. Hammer
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Publication number: 20190178065Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Eugene Stolboushkin, Aaron C. Hammer, Jason Allen, Ian Mitchell, Joshua Raymond Snitkoff
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Publication number: 20190055823Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2017Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Jai Kishan Koli, Britain A. Fisher, Aaron C. Hammer