Patents by Inventor Danny Lee

Danny Lee 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).

  • Horizontal frac ball injector
    Patent number: 8869883
    Abstract: An injector spool supports a plurality of ball injector assemblies having respective ball cartridges adapted to load one frac ball at a time into a ball chamber of a ball launcher of the respective ball injector assemblies to provide a horizontal frac ball injector adapted to be connected to a frac head by frac iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Oil States Energy Services, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Bob McGuire, Danny Lee Artherholt
  • Compressed air engine
    Patent number: 8850807
    Abstract: An air engine system includes a motor coupled to the drive shaft of an air engine to control the speed of the air engine. The air engine uses compressed air from a compressed air source provided by an air compressor. The air engine may be used on a vehicle, providing a clean environmentally-friendly means of locomotion. Conventional internal combustion engines may be retrofitted to operate on compressed air. Many of the parts on an internal combustion engine are not needed after retrofitting to be an air engine, including the heads. The heads are replaced by head plates that are coupled to solenoids that provide both intake and exhaust functions to the cylinders, thereby replacing the valves in the heads. A kit provides parts and instructions for retrofitting an existing internal combustion engine to run on compressed air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: HB Spider LLC
    Inventors: Christopher M. Huff, Danny Lee Block
  • DEVICE FOR SECURELY TYING SHOELACES AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20140290014
    Abstract: A device and method for securely tying a shoelace. Two ends of a shoelace are secured within two bobbin ports and the shoelace is wrapped around a bobbin as the bobbin is rotated. A ratchet is attached to the bobbin, rotates with the bobbin, and enables the bobbin to be locked in place (securely tying the shoelace). A frame enables access to the shoelace before, during, and after the shoelace tying procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventor: Danny Lee Myrick
  • Controlled apperture ball drop
    Patent number: 8839851
    Abstract: A controlled aperture ball drop includes a ball cartridge that is mounted to a frac head or a high pressure fluid conduit. The ball cartridge houses a ball rail having a bottom end that forms an aperture with an inner periphery of the ball cartridge through which frac balls of a frac ball stack supported by the ball rail are sequentially dropped from the frac ball stack as a size of the aperture is increased by an aperture controller operatively connected to the ball rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Oil States Energy Services, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Joel H. Young, Ronald B. Beason, Nicholas J. Cannon, Bob McGuire, Danny Lee Artherholt
  • Applicators for microneedles
    Patent number: 8821446
    Abstract: A microneedle applicator is provided which has two roughly concentric portions which may be, for example, a solid disk and an annulus surrounding it. On the skin-facing side of the inner portion of the applicator a microneedle array is located. The outer portion of the applicator is placed against the skin, contacting it at a zone. The microneedle array is then pressed towards the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Corium International, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph C. Trautman, Robert Wade Worsham, Danir F. Bayramov, Danny Lee Bowers, Steven Richard Klemm, Parminder Singh
  • Door with glass insert and method for assembling the same
    Patent number: 8789330
    Abstract: A door comprising first and second door skins secured to each other to form a cavity therebetween filled with expended foam. Each of the door skins has an opening therethrough for receiving a glass insert and a flange portion. Distal ends of the flange portions of the first and second door skins engage each other in an overlapping relationship by the expansion pressure of the expanded foam. The door further comprises a glazing rim member having a leg portion snap-locked between the flange portions of the first and second door skins. The method for assembling the door comprises the steps of filling the cavity between the door skins with foam material, then inserting the glass insert through the openings in the door skins and mounting the glazing rim member to the first door skin by snap-locking between the flange portions of the first and second door skins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Lynch, Jason Caulk, Jason M. Walsh, Mark A. Ruggie, Timothy D. Gouge, Gary Thomas Fagan, Eric Duane Bennett, Haritha Wunnava, Danny Lee Fitts
  • MODULAR BALL DROP
    Publication number: 20140196883
    Abstract: A modular ball drop made up of two or more identical ball drop modules that are vertically stacked in a desired number. Each ball drop module can drop one or more frac balls into a fluid stream being pumped into a well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: OIL STATES ENERGY SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Danny Lee Artherholt, Bob McGuire, Mickey Claxton
  • Frac head with sacrificial wash ring
    Patent number: 8770277
    Abstract: A frac head is provided with a sacrificial wash ring. The sacrificial wash ring is located above a mixing chamber of the frac head. The sacrificial wash ring protects the frac head body from erosion caused by abrasive frac fluids pumped through the frac head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Oil States Energy Services, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Danny Lee Artherholt
  • HIGH PURITY ZIRCONIA-BASED THERMALLY SPRAYED COATINGS AND PROCESSES FOR THE PREPARATION THEREOF
    Publication number: 20140178632
    Abstract: This invention relates to thermally sprayed coatings of a high purity yttria or ytterbia stabilized zirconia powder, said high purity yttria or ytterbia stabilized zirconia powder comprising from about 0 to about 0.15 weight percent impurity oxides, from about 0 to about 2 weight percent hafnium oxide (hafnia), from about 6 to about 25 weight percent yttrium oxide (yttria) or from about 10 to about 36 weight percent ytterbium oxide (ytterbia), and the balance zirconium oxide (zirconia). Thermal barrier coatings for protecting a component such as blades, vanes and seal surfaces of gas turbine engines, made from the high purity yttria or ytterbia stabilized zirconia powders, have a density greater than 88% of the theoretical density with a plurality of vertical macrocracks homogeneously dispersed throughout the coating to improve its thermal fatigue resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Thomas Alan TAYLOR, Danny Lee APPLEBY, Albert FEUERSTEIN, Ann BOLCAVAGE, Neil HITCHMAN
  • BALL DROP WELLHEAD CONTROL APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140166265
    Abstract: A ball drop wellhead control apparatus provides a control ball between one of a frac ball drop and a frac ball injector used to drop frac balls into a frac fluid stream being pumped into a subterranean well to ensure that only frac balls intended to be dropped reach the frac fluid stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: OIL STATES ENERGY SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Danny Lee Artherholt, Bob McGuire
  • DEVICES AND METHODS FOR CURING NAIL GELS
    Publication number: 20140166901
    Abstract: Novel nail gel curing devices and methods of their use are disclosed. Novel shields for nail gel curing devices and methods of their use are also disclosed. The devices and shields are useful for curing nail gels and more particularly where light emitting diode “LED” equipped devices are used to cure UV-VIS curable nail gel resins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventor: Danny Lee Haile
  • CUTTING TOOLS AND MACHINING METHODS USING CUTTING TOOLS
    Publication number: 20140162533
    Abstract: Cutting tools and machining methods using cutting tools are disclosed. An example cutting tool comprises a shank and a head on the shank, the head comprising a diamond abrasive-coated cutting surface, the cutting head having grooves interrupting the cutting surface and extending from the cutting surface toward an axis of rotation of the head, the cutting surface having a substantially constant radius.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: David Odendahl, Michael Parent, Alan Glasscock, Craig Charlton, Peter Bui, Loren Fiske, Danny Lee Beaman
  • COMPOSITIONS FOR REMOVABLE GEL APPLICATIONS FOR NAILS AND METHODS OF THEIR USE
    Publication number: 20140140941
    Abstract: Novel radiation curable gel-based mammalian nail coating compositions, kits containing these compositions, and methods of their use are disclosed. The novel compositions and/or kits are useful, inter alia, for providing durable, “soak-off” type nail coatings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventor: Danny Lee Haile
  • High purity powders
    Patent number: 8728967
    Abstract: This invention relates to high purity yttria or ytterbia stabilized zirconia powders comprising from about 0 to about 0.15 weight percent impurity oxides, from about 0 to about 2 weight percent hafnium oxide (hafnia), from about 6 to about 25 weight percent yttrium oxide (yttria) or from about 10 to about 36 weight percent ytterbium oxide (ytterbia), and the balance zirconium oxide (zirconia). Thermal barrier coatings for protecting a component such as blades, vanes and seal surfaces of gas turbine engines, made from the high purity yttria or ytterbia stabilized zirconia powders, have a density greater than 88% of the theoretical density with a plurality of vertical macrocracks homogeneously dispersed throughout the coating to improve its thermal fatigue resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Praxair S.T. Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Alan Taylor, Danny Lee Appleby, Albert Feuerstein, Ann Bolcavage, Neil Hitchman, James Munroe
  • APERTURE BALL DROP
    Publication number: 20140096948
    Abstract: A controlled aperture ball drop includes a ball cartridge that is mounted to a frac head or a high pressure fluid conduit. The ball cartridge houses a ball rail having a bottom end that forms an aperture with an inner periphery of the ball cartridge through which frac balls of a frac ball stack supported by the ball rail are sequentially dropped from the frac ball stack as a size of the aperture is increased by an aperture controller operatively connected to the ball rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Oil States Energy Services, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Joel H. Young, Ronald B. Beason, Nicholas J. Cannon, Bob McGuire, Danny Lee Artherholt
  • Compressed air engine
    Patent number: 8667787
    Abstract: An air engine system includes a motor coupled to the drive shaft of an air engine to control the speed of the air engine. The air engine uses compressed air from a compressed air source provided by an air compressor. The air engine may be used on a vehicle, providing a clean environmentally-friendly means of locomotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: HB Spider LLC
    Inventors: Christopher M. Huff, Danny Lee Block
  • Automated filler production method
    Patent number: 8655480
    Abstract: An automated filler production method includes obtaining gap measurement data by measuring a gap between component parts of a structure, delivering the gap measurement data to a data collector function, monitoring incoming filler requirements, updating solid model definitions of the filler, creating portable Machine Control Data (MCD) using the gap measurement data in the form of the updated solid model, delivering the MCD to a filler machining center and machining a filler from a filler substrate using the MCD, while providing status updates as the data progresses through the filler machining process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: David Odendahl, Michael Parent, Alan Glasscock, Craig Charlton, Peter Bui, Loren Fiske, Danny Lee Beaman
  • Controlled aperture ball drop
    Patent number: 8636055
    Abstract: A controlled aperture ball drop includes a ball cartridge that is mounted to a frac head or a high pressure fluid conduit. The ball cartridge houses a ball rail having a bottom end that forms an aperture with an inner periphery of the ball cartridge through which frac balls of a frac ball stack supported by the ball rail are sequentially dropped from the frac ball stack as a size of the aperture is increased by an aperture controller operatively connected to the ball rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Oil States Energy Services, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Joel H. Young, Ronald B. Beason, Nicholas J. Cannon, Bob McGuire, Danny Lee Artherholt
  • REDUCING ADAPTER DIMER FORMATION
    Publication number: 20140018264
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method of reducing adapter dimer formation comprising contacting a sample comprising target nucleic acid sequences with 5? and 3? adapters in the presence of one or more hairpin oligonucleotides. Also provided is a method of preparing a library of nucleic acid sequences comprising contacting first adapter oligonucleotides with a sample comprising target nucleic acid sequences under conditions to form first ligation products, contacting the sample with one or more hairpin oligonucleotides that binds to the first adapter oligonucleotides, and contacting the sample with second adapter oligonucleotides under conditions to bind to the first ligation products and form second ligation products, wherein the second ligation products form the library of nucleic acid sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Lau, Danny Lee
  • COMPOSITIONS, METHODS, AND KITS FOR AMPLIFYING NUCLEIC ACIDS
    Publication number: 20140004515
    Abstract: The present teachings are directed to compositions, methods, and kits for amplifying target nucleic acids while reducing non-specific fluorescence and undesired amplification products, sometimes referred to as secondary amplification products or spurious side-products. The enzyme inhibitors disclosed herein comprise a nucleotide sequence and at least one quencher. Complexes comprising an enzyme inhibitor associated with an enzyme, wherein at least one enzymatic activity of the enzyme is inhibited, are also provided. Methods for amplifying a target nucleic acid while reducing undesired amplification products are disclosed, as are methods for reducing non-specific fluorescence. Kits for expediting the performance of certain disclosed methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Shoulian DONG, Junko Stevens, Danny Lee