Patents by Inventor Arnoud Laurens Feijen
Arnoud Laurens Feijen 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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Patent number: 10267435Abstract: An offshore S-lay pipelaying vessel for laying a pipeline on the seabed, the vessel includes a hull and an elongated stinger having a hull end and a free end, the stinger being adapted to support the pipeline to be laid from the vessel. The stinger includes a stinger frame, possibly composed of one or more rigid stinger frame sections, possibly articulated sections. And, distributed over the length of the stinger, multiple pipeline support assemblies are mounted to the stinger frame that provide support for the pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens Feijen, Terence Willem August Vehmeijer, Joop Roodenburg
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Patent number: 9759351Abstract: A method for installing an accessory onto a pipeline to be laid on the seabed, includes launching the pipeline from a first position of a tower in which the tower is at an angle ? with respect to the vertical; stopping the launch of the pipeline, and hanging off the launched pipeline in a hang off module; positioning an accessory in a tower firing line; attaching the accessory to the launched pipeline in the hang off module and to at least one A&R cable; suspending the accessory and the launched pipeline from an A&R system; disengaging the hang off module from the launched pipeline; pivoting the pipeline launch tower to an accessory launch position in which the tower is at an angle ? that differs substantially from angle ?, such that a pipeline launch trajectory is created which is large enough to launch the accessory and the launched pipeline with the A&R system.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens Feijen, Ronny Lambertus Waltherus Nouwens, Terence Willem August Vehmeijer, Joop Roodenburg
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Publication number: 20170241567Abstract: An offshore S-lay pipelaying vessel for laying a pipeline on the seabed, the vessel includes a hull and an elongated stinger having a hull end and a free end, the stinger being adapted to support the pipeline to be laid from the vessel. The stinger includes a stinger frame, possibly composed of one or more rigid stinger frame sections, possibly articulated sections. And, distributed over the length of the stinger, multiple pipeline support assemblies are mounted to the stinger frame that provide support for the pipeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens FEIJEN, Terence Willem August VEHMEIJER, Joop ROODENBURG
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Patent number: 9677689Abstract: An offshore S-lay pipelaying vessel for laying a pipeline on the seabed, the vessel includes a hull and an elongated stinger having a hull end and a free end, the stinger being adapted to support the pipeline to be laid from the vessel. The stinger includes a stinger frame, possibly composed of one or more rigid stinger frame sections, possibly articulated sections. And, distributed over the length of the stinger, multiple pipeline support assemblies are mounted to the stinger frame that provide support for the pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens Feijen, Terence Willem August Vehmeijer, Joop Roodenburg
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Publication number: 20160265691Abstract: A method for installing an accessory onto a pipeline to be laid on the seabed, includes launching the pipeline from a first position of a tower in which the tower is at an angle ? with respect to the vertical; stopping the launch of the pipeline, and hanging off the launched pipeline in a hang off module; positioning an accessory in a tower firing line; attaching the accessory to the launched pipeline in the hang off module and to at least one A&R cable; suspending the accessory and the launched pipeline from an A&R system; disengaging the hang off module from the launched pipeline; pivoting the pipeline launch tower to an accessory launch position in which the tower is at an angle ? that differs substantially from angle a, such that a pipeline launch trajectory is created which is large enough to launch the accessory and the launched pipeline with the A&R system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens FEIJEN, Ronny Lambertus Waltherus NOUWENS, Terence Willem August VEHMEIJER, Joop ROODENBURG
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Patent number: 9371939Abstract: A method for installing an accessory onto a pipeline to be laid on the seabed, includes launching the pipeline from a first position of a tower in which the tower is at an angle ? with respect to the vertical; stopping the launch of the pipeline, and hanging off the launched pipeline in a hang off module; positioning an accessory in a tower firing line; attaching the accessory to the launched pipeline in the hang off module and to at least one A&R cable; suspending the accessory and the launched pipeline from an A&R system; disengaging the hang off module from the launched pipeline; pivoting the pipeline launch tower to an accessory launch position in which the tower is at an angle ? that differs substantially from angle ?, such that a pipeline launch trajectory is created which is large enough to launch the accessory and the launched pipeline with the A&R system.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens Feijen, Ronny Lambertus Waltherus Nouwens, Terence Willem August Vehmeijer, Joop Roodenburg
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Publication number: 20160097469Abstract: An offshore S-lay pipelaying vessel for laying a pipeline on the seabed, the vessel includes a hull and an elongated stinger having a hull end and a free end, the stinger being adapted to support the pipeline to be laid from the vessel. The stinger includes a stinger frame, possibly composed of one or more rigid stinger frame sections, possibly articulated sections. And, distributed over the length of the stinger, multiple pipeline support assemblies are mounted to the stinger frame that provide support for the pipeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Applicant: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens FEIJEN, Terence Willem August VEHMEIJER, Joop ROODENBURG
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Patent number: 9243722Abstract: An offshore S-lay pipelaying vessel for laying a pipeline on the seabed, the vessel includes a hull and an elongated stinger having a hull end and a free end, the stinger being adapted to support the pipeline to be laid from the vessel. The stinger includes a stinger frame, possibly composed of one or more rigid stinger frame sections, possibly articulated sections. And, distributed over the length of the stinger, multiple pipeline support assemblies are mounted to the stinger frame that provide support for the pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens Feijen, Terence Willem August Vehmeijer, Joop Roodenburg
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Patent number: 8992124Abstract: The invention relates to a marine pipelaying system comprising a vessel (1) provided with a pipeline launch tower (6). The tower (6) comprises pipe laying equipment defining a tower firing line, and is adapted for launching a pipeline (20) along the firing line into the sea. The system furthermore comprises a hang off module (15) supported in the lower part of the firing line for clamping and supporting the weight of previously launched pipeline (20) as well as a stinger for guiding the launched pipeline (20). The stinger (10) is supported at its upper end in the lower part of the firing line. The stinger is displaceable from the firing line.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens Feijen, Ronny Lambertus Waltherus Nouwens, Diederick Bernardus Wijning, Joop Roodenburg
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Publication number: 20150063917Abstract: A method for installing an accessory onto a pipeline to be laid on the seabed, includes launching the pipeline from a first position of a tower in which the tower is at an angle ? with respect to the vertical; stopping the launch of the pipeline, and hanging off the launched pipeline in a hang off module; positioning an accessory in a tower firing line; attaching the accessory to the launched pipeline in the hang off module and to at least one A&R cable; suspending the accessory and the launched pipeline from an A&R system; disengaging the hang off module from the launched pipeline; pivoting the pipeline launch tower to an accessory launch position in which the tower is at an angle ? that differs substantially from angle ?, such that a pipeline launch trajectory is created which is large enough to launch the accessory and the launched pipeline with the A&R system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens FEIJEN, Ronny Lambertus Waltherus NOUWENS, Terence Willem August VEHMEIJER, Joop ROODENBURG
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Publication number: 20150010361Abstract: An offshore S-lay pipelaying vessel for laying a pipeline on the seabed, the vessel includes a hull and an elongated stinger having a hull end and a free end, the stinger being adapted to support the pipeline to be laid from the vessel. The stinger includes a stinger frame, possibly composed of one or more rigid stinger frame sections, possibly articulated sections. And, distributed over the length of the stinger, multiple pipeline support assemblies are mounted to the stinger frame that provide support for the pipeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Applicant: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens FEIJEN, Terence Willem August VEHMEIJER, Joop ROODENBURG
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Patent number: 8915674Abstract: A method for installing an accessory onto a pipeline to be laid on the seabed, includes launching the pipeline from a first position of a tower in which the tower is at an angle ? with respect to the vertical; stopping the launch of the pipeline, and hanging off the launched pipeline in a hang off module; positioning an accessory in a tower firing line; attaching the accessory to the launched pipeline in the hang off module and to at least one A&R cable; suspending the accessory and the launched pipeline from an A&R system; disengaging the hang off module from the launched pipeline; pivoting the pipeline launch tower to an accessory launch position in which the tower is at an angle ? that differs substantially from angle ?, such that a pipeline launch trajectory is created which is large enough to launch the accessory and the launched pipeline with the A&R system.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2008Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Itrec B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens Feijen, Ronny Lambertus Waltherus Nouwens, Terence Willem August Vehmeijer, Joop Roodenburg
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Patent number: 8870496Abstract: An offshore S-lay pipelaying vessel for laying a pipeline on the seabed, said vessel comprising: —a hull; —an elongated stinger having a hull end and a free end, said stinger being adapted to support the pipeline to be laid from the vessel, wherein the stinger comprises a stinger frame, possibly composed of one or more rigid stinger frame sections, possibly articulated sections, and wherein—distributed over the length of the stinger—multiple pipeline support assemblies are mounted to the stinger frame that provide support for the pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Itrec B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens Feijen, Terence Willem August Vehmeijer, Joop Roodenburg
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Publication number: 20120219362Abstract: An offshore S-lay pipelaying vessel for laying a pipeline on the seabed, said vessel comprising:—a hull (2);—an elongated stinger (1) having a hull end (1a) and a free end (1b), said stinger being adapted to support the pipeline (10) to be laid from the vessel, wherein the stinger comprises a stinger frame (3), possibly composed of one or more rigid stinger frame sections, possibly articulated sections, and wherein—distributed over the length of the stinger multiple pipeline support assemblies (5) are mounted to the stinger frame that provide support for the pipeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2010Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens Feijen, Terence Willem August Vehmeijer, Joop Roodenburg
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Publication number: 20110123273Abstract: A method for installing an accessory onto a pipeline to be laid on the seabed, includes launching the pipeline from a first position of a tower in which the tower is at an angle ? with respect to the vertical; stopping the launch of the pipeline, and hanging off the launched pipeline in a hang off module; positioning an accessory in a tower firing line; attaching the accessory to the launched pipeline in the hang off module and to at least one A&R cable; suspending the accessory and the launched pipeline from an A&R system; disengaging the hang off module from the launched pipeline; pivoting the pipeline launch tower to an accessory launch position in which the tower is at an angle ? that differs substantially from angle ?, such that a pipeline launch trajectory is created which is large enough to launch the accessory and the launched pipeline with the A&R system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2008Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens Feijen, Ronny Lambertus Waltherus Nouwens, Terence Willem August Vehmeijer, Joop Roodenburg
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Publication number: 20110103894Abstract: The invention relates to a marine pipelaying system comprising a vessel (1) provided with a pipeline launch tower (6). The tower (6) comprises pipe laying equipment defining a tower firing line, and is adapted for launching a pipeline (20) along the firing line into the sea. The system furthermore comprises a hang off module (15) supported in the lower part of the firing line for clamping and supporting the weight of previously launched pipeline (20) as well as a stinger for guiding the launched pipeline (20). The stinger (10) is supported at its upper end in the lower part of the firing line. The stinger is displaceable from the firing line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: ITREC B.V.Inventors: Arnoud Laurens Feijen, Ronny Lambertus Waltherus Nouwens, Diederick Bernardus Wijning, Joop Roodenburg