Patents by Inventor James Joseph Freeman
James Joseph Freeman 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: 11784918Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling communication in a downhole power and communications system installed in a well, where one or more components of a wired backbone of the system have failed. Equipment positioned at the surface of a well is connected to a wired power and communication backbone that has one or more conductors and one or more nodes with standardized interfaces that enable downhole devices to be interchangeably connected to the wired backbone. When the wired backbone has failed at one or more points, preventing wired communications between the surface equipment and one or more downhole devices installed at the nodes, one or more wireless-enabled modules are installed at corresponding nodes of the wired backbone to establish wireless channels that bridge the failed portion of the wired backbone and thereby enable communication between the surface equipment and the downhole devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventor: James Joseph Freeman
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Patent number: 11506046Abstract: An compact instrumented downhole coupling that includes a carrier and a set of sensors and electronics that are installed within the carrier. The carrier is a tubular structure having couplings at each end and a bore extending through the carrier from the first end to the second end, forming a carrier wall between the bore and the exterior surface of the carrier. The bore and couplings are offset from a central axis of the carrier (the axis of the cylindrical outer surface of the carrier), resulting in a thicker portion of the carrier wall on one side of the carrier. Cavities are formed (e.g., by drilling holes) within the thicker portion of the carrier wall. One or more sensors and corresponding electronics are then positioned within the cavities, so that the carrier wall itself forms a housing for the sensors and electronics.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Yuh Loh, Thomas McClain Scott, James Joseph Freeman, John Raggio, Lorn Rendall
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Patent number: 11465229Abstract: An apparatus for applying a magnetic pressure to a work piece includes an inductor configured to be disposed in proximity to the work piece and a controller electrically connected to the inductor and configured to control a supply of electrical power in order to output a first voltage over a selected frequency range to determine a frequency that provides a maximum current or a frequency that provides a current within a selected range of the maximum current to the inductor.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, LLCInventors: Carlos Prieto, James Joseph Freeman, Daniel Ewing
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Publication number: 20220186602Abstract: An compact instrumented downhole coupling that includes a carrier and a set of sensors and electronics that are installed within the carrier. The carrier is a tubular structure having couplings at each end and a bore extending through the carrier from the first end to the second end, forming a carrier wall between the bore and the exterior surface of the carrier. The bore and couplings are offset from a central axis of the carrier (the axis of the cylindrical outer surface of the carrier), resulting in a thicker portion of the carrier wall on one side of the carrier. Cavities are formed (e.g., by drilling holes) within the thicker portion of the carrier wall. One or more sensors and corresponding electronics are then positioned within the cavities, so that the carrier wall itself forms a housing for the sensors and electronics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Yuh Loh, Thomas McClain Scott, James Joseph Freeman, John Raggio, Lorn Rendall
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Publication number: 20210170519Abstract: An apparatus for applying a magnetic pressure to a work piece includes an inductor configured to be disposed in proximity to the work piece and a controller electrically connected to the inductor and configured to control a supply of electrical power in order to output a first voltage over a selected frequency range to determine a frequency that provides a maximum current or a frequency that provides a current within a selected range of the maximum current to the inductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Carlos Prieto, James Joseph Freeman, Daniel Ewing
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Patent number: 11014191Abstract: An apparatus for applying a magnetic pressure to a work piece includes an inductor configured to be disposed in proximity to the work piece and a controller electrically connected to the inductor. The controller is configured to control a supply of electrical power in order to output a first voltage over a selected frequency range to determine a first frequency that provides a maximum current to the inductor or a second frequency that provides a current within a selected range of the maximum current to the inductor.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Carlos Prieto, James Joseph Freeman, Daniel Ewing
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Patent number: 10958358Abstract: A signal transmission system including a first transducer mounted to a surface of a member, a second transducer movable into contact with a second surface of the member, a material disposed between the second transducer and the second surface of the member. A method for communicating acoustic energy through a member including pressing a second transducer to a second surface of the member, the member having a first transducer mounted to an opposite surface thereof, sandwiching a material between the second transducer and the second surface of the member, and transmitting a signal between the first transducer and the second transducer.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: John Ellis Britt, Derek Shelby Bale, James Joseph Freeman
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Patent number: 10914167Abstract: An apparatus for deploying one or more components of a borehole monitoring system includes a conductor assembly having one or more communication devices connected along a length of a conductor, each communication device being configured to wirelessly communicate data and/or power, the conductor configured to transmit the data and/or the power through a borehole in an earth formation. The apparatus further includes a deployment device configured to transport and support the length of the conductor having the one or more communication devices connected along the length of the conductor and deploy the length of the conductor in the borehole.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Thomas McClain Scott, James Joseph Freeman, Ermanel Isidro
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Patent number: 10596655Abstract: A method for installing a tool in a downhole system including running the tool to a target location within a tubular structure, creating a magnetic pulse, and urging the tool toward the tubular structure at a minimum velocity of 200 meters per second with the magnetic pulse. A method for actuating a downhole tool including creating a magnetic pulse, coupling the magnetic pulse to a workpiece and moving the workpiece with the pulse, the workpiece achieving a minimum velocity of 200 meters per second.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Carlos Prieto, James Joseph Freeman, Daniel Ewing, John K. Wakefield, Partha Ganguly
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Publication number: 20200092199Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling communication in a downhole power and communications system installed in a well, where one or more components of a wired backbone of the system have failed. Equipment positioned at the surface of a well is connected to a wired power and communication backbone that has one or more conductors and one or more nodes with standardized interfaces that enable downhole devices to be interchangeably connected to the wired backbone. When the wired backbone has failed at one or more points, preventing wired communications between the surface equipment and one or more downhole devices installed at the nodes, one or more wireless-enabled modules are installed at corresponding nodes of the wired backbone to establish wireless channels that bridge the failed portion of the wired backbone and thereby enable communication between the surface equipment and the downhole devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Inventor: James Joseph Freeman
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Publication number: 20190363801Abstract: A signal transmission system including a first transducer mounted to a surface of a member, a second transducer movable into contact with a second surface of the member, a material disposed between the second transducer and the second surface of the member. A method for communicating acoustic energy through a member including pressing a second transducer to a second surface of the member, the member having a first transducer mounted to an opposite surface thereof, sandwiching a material between the second transducer and the second surface of the member, and transmitting a signal between the first transducer and the second transducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: John Ellis Britt, Derek Shelby Bale, James Joseph Freeman
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Publication number: 20190040737Abstract: An apparatus for deploying one or more components of a borehole monitoring system includes a conductor assembly having one or more communication devices connected along a length of a conductor, each communication device being configured to wirelessly communicate data and/or power, the conductor configured to transmit the data and/or the power through a borehole in an earth formation. The apparatus further includes a deployment device configured to transport and support the length of the conductor having the one or more communication devices connected along the length of the conductor and deploy the length of the conductor in the borehole.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Thomas McClain Scott, James Joseph Freeman, Ermanel Isidro
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Publication number: 20180080296Abstract: A magnetic pulse actuation arrangement including an inductor, a workpiece spaced from the inductor, a reluctance reduction configuration in magnetically operable communication with the inductor and the workpiece. Also included is a method for completing a borehole including running an arrangement as in any prior embodiment into the borehole, configuring the arrangement to reduce reluctance, generating a magnetic pulse, and moving a workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Carlos Prieto, James Joseph Freeman, Daniel Ewing
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Publication number: 20180043463Abstract: An apparatus for applying a magnetic pressure to a work piece includes an inductor configured to be disposed in proximity to the work piece and a controller electrically connected to the inductor and configured to control a supply of electrical power in order to output a first voltage over a selected frequency range to determine a frequency that provides a maximum current or a frequency that provides a current within a selected range of the maximum current to the inductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Carlos Prieto, James Joseph Freeman, Daniel Ewing
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Publication number: 20180045007Abstract: A method for installing a tool in a downhole system including running the tool to a target location within a tubular structure, creating a magnetic pulse, and urging the tool toward the tubular structure at a minimum velocity of 200 meters per second with the magnetic pulse. A method for actuating a downhole tool including creating a magnetic pulse, coupling the magnetic pulse to a workpiece and moving the workpiece with the pulse, the workpiece achieving a minimum velocity of 200 meters per second.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Carlos Prieto, James Joseph Freeman, Daniel Ewing, John K. Wakefield, Partha Ganguly
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Patent number: 9644475Abstract: A method of managing data obtained in a borehole is provided. The method includes monitoring a characteristic with at least one sensor and obtaining raw data therefrom; indexing the raw data with the at least one sensor; recording the indexed data with the at least one sensor; forming a data packet with the at least one sensor, the data packet including at least a portion of the indexed data and index information; and transmitting the data packet in a predetermined segment of a communication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Michael A Forsberg, Mike Allen Swatek, James Joseph Freeman, Steve James Coulston, Thomas McClain Scott, Nicholas L Bayard, Henry Chang
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Publication number: 20160305236Abstract: A method of managing data obtained in a borehole is provided. The method includes monitoring a characteristic with at least one sensor and obtaining raw data therefrom; indexing the raw data with the at least one sensor; recording the indexed data with the at least one sensor; forming a data packet with the at least one sensor, the data packet including at least a portion of the indexed data and index information; and transmitting the data packet in a predetermined segment of a communication protocol.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2015Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Michael A. Forsberg, Mike Allen Swatek, James Joseph Freeman, Steve James Coulston, Thomas McClain Scott, Nicholas L. Bayard, Henry Chang
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Patent number: 9074463Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods for terminating communication on a communication line between a carrier and at least one node located at a subsurface location. The apparatus may include a control member configured to initiate termination of communication in response to a controlled signal. The apparatus may also include a communication linkage configured to terminate the communication in a manner that cannot be remotely restored in response to the control member. The apparatus may also include a power source to maintain power to the communication linkage termination operation. The apparatus may be configured to use energy from the communication line to cause the communication linkage to terminate communication. The apparatus may be configured to use a communication linkage that is at least partially consumable. The method includes the use of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Stephen James Coulston, James Joseph Freeman, Javid A. Majid
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Patent number: 8863833Abstract: A system monitors and controls the injection of additives into formation fluids recovered through a well may include a plurality of nozzles that receive the injection fluid from an umbilical disposed in a well. Each nozzle may have an associated flow control element that is configured to affect a flow of the injection fluid ejected through the associated nozzle. The umbilical may include one or more filters positioned in a first of two parallel conduits formed along the umbilical. An occlusion member restricts in a second of the two conduits. The occlusion member permits flow in the second conduit after a predetermined pressure differential exists in the second conduit. The system may include a plurality of pressure sensors disposed along the umbilical, and an injector unit that dispenses fluid into the umbilical. A controller operatively coupled to the injector unit operates the injector in response to measurements from the pressure sensors.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Mescall, Matthew C. Stone, Louis F. LaFleur, James Joseph Freeman
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Publication number: 20120169509Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods for terminating communication on a communication line between a carrier and at least one node located at a subsurface location. The apparatus may include a control member configured to initiate termination of communication in response to a controlled signal. The apparatus may also include a communication linkage configured to terminate the communication in a manner that cannot be remotely restored in response to the control member. The apparatus may also include a power source to maintain power to the communication linkage termination operation. The apparatus may be configured to use energy from the communication line to cause the communication linkage to terminate communication. The apparatus may be configured to use a communication linkage that is at least partially consumable. The method includes the use of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Stephen James Coulston, James Joseph Freeman, Javid A. Majid