Patents by Inventor Dean Porter

Dean Porter 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).

  • Patent number: 11203516
    Abstract: Tankless evaporators, refrigeration circuits, and water coolers use a drum as a thermal mass without using one or more tanks for storing water. Water coolers can include a tankless evaporator. Also described are refrigeration circuits suitable for a water cooler and which include a tankless evaporator. An evaporator for use in a fluid chiller includes a drum of heat conductive material defining a thermal mass, a water coil disposed adjacent around the drum, an evaporator coil configured around the drum and adjacent to the water coil, in which the evaporator coil is operative to cool the water coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Haws Corporation
    Inventor: Dean Porter
  • Patent number: 10934694
    Abstract: A wall mounting system is described having a wall mounting bracket to be rigidly secured to a wall, a pair of water bottle filling station-mounted brackets to be rigidly secured to a water bottle filling station, and a pair of bracket adaptors, each configured to be secured to a respective one of the water bottle filling station-mounted brackets and to the wall mounting bracket. The system can include one or more springs. The system allows an operator to properly install a water bottle filling station on uneven walls or damaged or improperly installed wall mounting brackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Haws Corporation
    Inventors: Dean Porter, Joshua Linn
  • Publication number: 20210015282
    Abstract: A malleable metal straw. The malleable metal straw has an elongated member with a metal sidewall and a first open end and a second open end. An interior region has a liquid permissible cavity from the first open end to the second open end wherein at least a portion of the metal sidewall is sufficiently thin to allow the elongated member to bend under hand strength force. The malleable metal straw can further have a support structure within the interior region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventor: Larry Dean Porter
  • Publication number: 20200231425
    Abstract: Tankless evaporators, refrigeration circuits, and water coolers are described, which use a drum as a thermal mass without using one or more tanks for storing water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventor: Dean Porter
  • Patent number: 9909393
    Abstract: A completion system for a well includes a tubing hanger movable into a landed position within an internal bore of the completion system. The tubing hanger includes a hanger bore formed through the tubing hanger, an auxiliary passage formed through the tubing hanger outside of the hanger bore, and a shuttle rod valve including a rod movable in a cavity that is capable of being in fluid communication with the auxiliary passage to control the flow of fluid through the auxiliary passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: OneSubsea IP UK Limited
    Inventors: Dean Porter, Benjamin Kobe
  • Publication number: 20160326838
    Abstract: A completion system for a well includes a tubing hanger movable into a landed position within an internal bore of the completion system. The tubing hanger includes a hanger bore formed through the tubing hanger, an auxiliary passage formed through the tubing hanger outside of the hanger bore, and a shuttle rod valve including a rod movable in a cavity that is capable of being in fluid communication with the auxiliary passage to control the flow of fluid through the auxiliary passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: OneSubsea IP UK Limited
    Inventors: Dean Porter, Benjamin Kobe
  • Patent number: 9249647
    Abstract: A production assembly for a subsea well, the assembly comprising a tubing hanger landed in the production assembly, the tubing hanger suspending production tubing from the production assembly, an annulus surrounding the production tubing, and an actuatable rotary disc valve comprising a disc and two seats, wherein the disc is rotatable between two seats to an open position in which one or more apertures in the rotary disc valve are aligned with one or more apertures in the seats, and a closed position in which the one or more apertures in the rotary disc valve are offset from the one or more apertures in the seats, wherein, the annulus is not capable of fluid communication through the tubing hanger when the actuatable rotary disc valve is in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: OneSubsea IP UK Limited
    Inventors: Benjamin Kobe, Dean Porter
  • Publication number: 20150191994
    Abstract: A production assembly for a subsea well, the assembly comprising a tubing hanger landed in the production assembly, the tubing hanger suspending production tubing from the production assembly, an annulus surrounding the production tubing, and an actuatable rotary disc valve comprising a disc and two seats, wherein the disc is rotatable between two seats to an open position in which one or more apertures in the rotary disc valve are aligned with one or more apertures in the seats, and a closed position in which the one or more apertures in the rotary disc valve are offset from the one or more apertures in the seats, wherein, the annulus is not capable of fluid communication through the tubing hanger when the actuatable rotary disc valve is in the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: ONESUBSEA IP UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Benjamin Kobe, Dean Porter
  • Patent number: D972679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Haws Corporation
    Inventors: Lance Hussey, Zeke Johnson, Shushuo Wu, Ben LaBelle, Joshua Linn, Dean Porter