Patents by Inventor Andreas Peter

Andreas Peter 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).

  • ELECTRONIC MODULE HOUSING FOR DOWNHOLE USE
    Publication number: 20180179882
    Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and products for downhole operations. Embodiments include downhole tools comprising an outer member configured for conveyance in the borehole; a pressure barrel positioned inside the outer member; a substantially cylindrical pod positioned inside the pressure barrel; and at least one downhole electronic component mounted between the exterior surface and the frame. The pod comprises at least one rigid outer surface forming an exterior surface of the pod and supported by a central frame extending across a diameter of the pod, such as a plurality of outer rigid surfaces. The pod may include a plurality of coupled rigid elongated semicircular metallic shells, wherein each shell of the plurality comprises a rigid outer surface of the plurality of outer rigid surfaces. Each of the at least one downhole electronic component may be sealingly enclosed within a corresponding shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: JOACHIM TREVIRANUS, STEPHAN WINK, OLAF GAERTNER, DANIEL PORZIG, TIM MUELLER, ANDREAS PETER
  • DOWNHOLE COMPONENT SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INSTALLATION
    Publication number: 20180112501
    Abstract: Downhole component support systems and methods including a housing having a housing cavity therein, the housing cavity configured to contain a hydraulic frame and a hydraulic frame configured to support at least one component package removably disposed within the housing cavity. At least one master hydraulic assembly is in hydraulic communication with the hydraulic frame and at least one slave hydraulic assembly is coupled to the hydraulic frame and hydraulically coupled to the at least one master hydraulic assembly. Adjustment of the at least one master hydraulic assembly urges the at least one slave hydraulic assembly between a first position and a second position, and, when in the second position, the hydraulic frame is secured to an interior surface of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Volker Peters, Andreas Peter
  • ELECTRIC SHAVER
    Publication number: 20180085938
    Abstract: Electric shaver provided with a handle and a shaver head including at least one cutter element, wherein said shaver head is connected to said handle by means of a support structure providing for a swivel and/or tilting axis about which said shaver head may swivel or tilt relative to said handle, wherein said cutter element is drivable by a drive unit in an oscillating manner along a cutter oscillation axis, said drive unit including an elongated drive transmitter coupled to said cutter element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas Peter, Cirilo Javier Perez Lopez, Andreas Erndt, Detlef Gleich, Sebastian Hottenrott, Tobias Schwarz
  • INDUCTIVE PROXIMITY SENSOR
    Publication number: 20180045538
    Abstract: A method and an inductive proximity sensor for detecting an object having at least one coil, wherein at least one transmission current pulse can be applied to the coil by a control and evaluation unit and having the control and evaluation unit for outputting an object detection signal, wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to scan at least one induced voltage pulse that is generated by the transmission current pulse at the coil in at least one section from or after the point in time of the application of the transmission current pulse up to the point in time of the complete attenuation of the voltage pulse and to form scan values, whereby the voltage pulse is digitized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Sascha THOSS, Andreas PETER, Olaf MACHUL
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BENDING DECOUPLED ELECTRONICS PACKAGING
    Publication number: 20180038217
    Abstract: An apparatus for protecting an electronics module used in a borehole may include an enclosure disposed along a drill string. The electronics module may be attached to the enclosure by at least one joint. The at least one joint allows a predetermined bending between the electronics module and the enclosure that does not mechanically overload the electronics module. In some embodiments, the joint may be a ball joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Carsten HAUBOLD, Joachim TREVIRANUS, Tim MUELLER, Andreas PETER
  • PRODUCT OUTPUT DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180023997
    Abstract: A product output device for a product supply system, in which a first product supply device and a second product supply device provide product amounts in a first collecting container and a second collecting container. Both collecting containers are provided with respective first closure flaps and second closure flaps. As soon as the collecting containers are positioned above the product receiving device, the closure flaps can open in order to drop the product into the product receiving device. The collecting container, comprising the first collecting container and the second collecting container, can be pivoted to an output position of the first collecting container, or to a output position of the second collecting container. Herein, the pivoting movement to the respectively different output positions begins before the first closure flaps have closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: MULTIPOND Wägetechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Günther SICKINGER, Joseph SCHMIDHUBER, Andreas PETERS, Felix PROFE
  • Semiconductor Device Including a Transistor Array and a Termination Region and Method of Manufacturing Such a Semiconductor Device
    Publication number: 20180026133
    Abstract: A semiconductor device in a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface includes a transistor array and a termination region. The transistor array includes a source region, a drain region, a body region, a drift zone, and a gate electrode at the body region. The gate electrode is configured to control a conductivity of a channel in the body region. The body region and the drift zone are disposed along a first horizontal direction between the source region and the drain region. The transistor array further includes first field plate trenches in the drift zone. A longitudinal axis of the first field plate trenches extends in the first horizontal direction. The semiconductor device further includes a second field plate trench, a longitudinal axis of the second field plate trench extending in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas Peter Meiser, Till Schloesser
  • DRILLING ASSEMBLY UTILIZING TILTED DISINTEGRATING DEVICE FOR DRILLING DEVIATED WELLBORES
    Publication number: 20180016846
    Abstract: A drilling assembly for use in drilling a wellbore is disclosed that in one embodiment includes a steering unit that includes a tilt device in a disintegrating device and an electro-mechanical actuation device having a force application member that applies axial force on the disintegrating device to tilt the disintegrating device about the tilt device along a selected direction. In one embodiment, the actuation device translates a rotary motion into an axial movement of the force application member to apply the axial force on the disintegrating device to tilt the disintegrating device about the tilt device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Andreas Peter, Volker Peters
  • DEPTH-BASED BOREHOLE TRAJECTORY CONTROL
    Publication number: 20170350229
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for controlling a trajectory of a borehole being drilled into the earth are provided. The apparatus includes a drilling system including a drill tubular, a disintegrating device, and a steering system coupled to the drill tubular configured to steer the drilling system, the drilling system configured to drill the borehole by receiving control outputs from at least one control unit for controlling parameters of the drilling system, the at least one control unit configured to provide the control outputs to the steering system, the at least one control unit being configured to provide depth-based control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Oliver Hoehn, Michael Neubert, Andreas Peter, Ingolf Wassermann, Bilel Said
  • CONNECTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170341871
    Abstract: A connection device connects a driving device and a feeding device and is for use in a scale or combination scale. A connection element has at least one magnet. A receiving device, which is located within the feeding device, includes at least one iron core. The receiving device includes a protrusion, where the receiving device meshes with the connection element in the mounted state for a simple, interlocking, and backlash-free self-centering connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: MULTIPOND WÄGETECHNIK GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas PETERS
  • Active control of drill bit walking
    Patent number: 9816368
    Abstract: An apparatus for drilling a borehole into an earth formation includes: a drill bit configured to be rotated to drill into the formation; a drill tubular coupled to the drill bit and configured to rotate the drill bit; a steering device coupled to the drill string and configured to impart a force on the drill string to control a direction of drilling; and a controller configured to communicate a control signal to the steering device. The control signal includes information for directing actuation of the steering device for steering the drill bit in an intended drilling direction. The controller is further configured to direct the steering device to provide a compensating force on the drill string that prevents or reduces an azimuthal deviation from the intended drilling direction due to drill bit walking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC
    Inventors: Donald Keith Trichel, Andreas Peter, Oliver Hoehn, Steffen Schulze
  • DIAMOND TIPPED CONTROL VALVE USED FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE DRILLING APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20170260852
    Abstract: A control valve assembly includes a body including a mud flow passage having a mud flow inlet and a mud flow outlet, a magnetic plunger slidingly mounted within the body, and a solenoid mounted at the body about the magnetic plunger. The solenoid is selectively activated to shift the magnetic plunger between a first position covering the mud flow outlet and a second position exposing the mud flow outlet allowing a pulse of mud to flow through the mud flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Ryan Damont Green, Sebastian Tegeler, Andreas Peter
  • METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE NEUTRAL TEMPERATURE IN LONG-STRETCHED WORKPIECES
    Publication number: 20170261449
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a method for respectively determining the neutral temperature or the stressfree state in a rail section (1), wherein an ultrasonic signal is coupled into a representative volume of the rail profile perpendicular to its longitudinal direction, wherein the volume is subjected to stresses in the longitudinal direction of the rail section (1), wherein the stresses are measured, wherein an ultrasonic signal influenced by these stresses is decoupled, wherein a function describing the functional dependence of the decoupled ultrasonic signal on the introduced stress is determined, and wherein the stressfree state is determined based on the course of this function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: André Klepel, Andreas Peters
  • MAGNETIC SLEEVE CONTROL VALVE FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE DRILLING APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20170260832
    Abstract: A control valve assembly includes a body having a mud flow passage provided with a mud flow inlet and a mud flow outlet, a magnetic sleeve slidingly mounted to the body, and a solenoid mounted to the body adjacent the magnetic sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Ryan Damont Green, Sebastian Tegeler, Andreas Peter
  • Downhole clamping mechanism
    Patent number: 9745808
    Abstract: An anchoring system for use with a downhole tool includes a body with anchor members mounted on the body that pivot radially outward from the body and into engagement with an inner surface of a tubular. Curved slots are provided along a portion of the members and a sliding block has a protrusion that projects into the slots. The slots are curved so that when the block is urged axially within the body, the interaction between the slots and protrusions pivots the members radially outward. A piston is urged through the body to drive the block. Optionally, an elongate helical gear may cooperate with grooves formed in an edge of the members so that rotating the gear pivots the members radially outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Karsten Fuhst, Andreas Peter, Matthias Moeller, Christian Weiner, Ulrich Michael, William Befeld
  • Grid flap
    Patent number: 9671026
    Abstract: The invention relates to a grid flap (1) for use in a filling device or scale, especially in food processing, wherein the grid flap (1) comprises a metal frame (2) and a metal grid (4), and wherein the grid (4) comprises a plurality of braces (4h, 4v), which are connected to the frame (2) on their respective final sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: MULTIPOND WÄGETECHNIK GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Peters
  • Remote pressure readout while deploying and undeploying coiled tubing and other well tools
    Patent number: 9644472
    Abstract: A well tool has a pressure sensor disposed in an interior space. The pressure sensor has at least one sensing element estimating a pressure parameter of a fluid in the interior space and a transponder configured to transmit radio frequency (RF) signals representative of the estimated pressure parameter. A data retrieval module receives the RF signals transmitted by the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Karsten Fuhst, Jan C. Bertke, Andreas Peter
  • MULTI CHIP MODULE HOUSING MOUNTING IN MWD, LWD AND WIRELINE DOWNHOLE TOOL ASSEMBLIES
    Publication number: 20170101864
    Abstract: An apparatus for protecting an electronics module used in a borehole includes a borehole string section having at least one pocket is formed and a mount associated with the at least one pocket. The mount may include a housing, a lid, a biasing member, and a securing member. The housing receives the electronics module and is seated on a seating surface, which may be formed on the at least one pocket or the mount. The lid encloses the housing within the at least one pocket. The biasing member is in operative contact with the housing. The securing member secures the lid within the at least one pocket and compresses the lid, the housing and the biasing member in the pocket. The biasing member responsively urges the housing against the seating surface and the housing hermetically seals the electronic module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: CARSTEN HAUBOLD, ANDREAS PETER, MICHELL SCHIMANSKI, CHRISTIAN PREISER
  • DRILLING APPARATUS USING A SEALED SELF-ADJUSTING DEFLECTION DEVICE FOR DRILLING DIRECTIONAL WELLS
    Publication number: 20170074042
    Abstract: An apparatus for drilling directional wellbores is disclosed that in one non-limiting embodiment includes a drive for rotating a drill bit, a deflection device that enables a lower section of a drilling assembly to tilt about a member of the deflection device within a selected plane when the drilling assembly is substantially rotationally stationary to allow drilling of a curved section of the wellbore when the drill bit is rotated by the drive and wherein the tilt is reduced when the drilling assembly is rotated to allow drilling of a straighter section of the wellbore, and at least one seal that isolates at least a surface of the member from outside environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Volker Peters, Andreas Peter, Christian Fulda, Heiko Eggers, Harald Grimmer
  • DRILLING APPARATUS USING A SELF-ADJUSTING DEFLECTION DEVICE AND DIRECTIONAL SENSORS FOR DRILLING DIRECTIONAL WELLS
    Publication number: 20170074041
    Abstract: An apparatus for drilling a directional wellbore is disclosed that in one non-limiting embodiment includes a drive for rotating a drill bit, a deflection device that enables a lower section a drilling assembly to tilt within a selected plane when the drilling assembly is substantially rotationally stationary to allow drilling of a curved section of the wellbore when the drill bit is rotated by the drive and wherein the tilt is reduced when the drilling assembly is rotated to allow drilling of a straighter section of the wellbore, and a sensor that provides measurements relating a direction of the drilling assembly for drilling the wellbore along a desired direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Volker Peters, Andreas Peter, Christian Fulda, Heiko Eggers, Harald Grimmer