Patents by Inventor Jason Ives
Jason Ives 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: 11415138Abstract: A submersible well fluid pump has diffusers non-rotatably mounted in a pump housing. A drive shaft rotates an impeller between each of the diffusers. A bearing is positioned between and in abutment with two of the diffusers. An annular recess encircles an outer wall of the bearing. A wave spring has undulations with inward protruding indentations in contact with a base of the recess and outward protruding indentations in engagement with an inner wall of the housing. The wave spring is split and radially compressed between the base of the recess and the housing inner wall.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS, LLCInventors: Zheng Ye, Risa Rutter, Ryan Anthony Lack, Jason Ives
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Publication number: 20210048029Abstract: A submersible well fluid pump has diffusers non-rotatably mounted in a pump housing. A drive shaft rotates an impeller between each of the diffusers. A bearing is positioned between and in abutment with two of the diffusers. An annular recess encircles an outer wall of the bearing. A wave spring has undulations with inward protruding indentations in contact with a base of the recess and outward protruding indentations in engagement with an inner wall of the housing. The wave spring is split and radially compressed between the base of the recess and the housing inner wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Zheng Ye, Risa Rutter, Ryan Anthony Lack, Jason Ives
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Patent number: 9845808Abstract: A centrifugal pump has a number of stages, each of the stages having an impeller and a diffuser. The impellers are mounted to the pump drive shaft for rotation. A bearing in at least one of the stages includes a sleeve coupled to the drive shaft for rotation. The sleeve has upper and lower ends and an outer side wall facing radially outward that is convex and spherical. A bushing is mounted in the diffuser and has a bore with an inner side wall facing radially inward that is concave and spherical. A pair of slots is formed in the inner side wall of the bushing 180 degrees apart from each other and extending axially. The slots enable the sleeve to be inserted into the bore with the sleeve axis and bore axis perpendicular to each other, then tilted 90 degrees to coincide the sleeve axis with the bore axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLCInventors: David F. McManus, Jason Ives, Eduardo R. Rodriguez
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Patent number: 9080437Abstract: A shaft-locating device can include a cylindrical inner collet having an engaging surface on an inner diameter and an outward-facing tapered portion on an outer surface and an outer nut, concentrically located around the inner collet. The outer nut can have an inward-facing tapered portion that engages the outward-facing tapered portion of the inner collet, causing the inner diameter of the inner collet to become smaller, thus engaging, for example, a shaft around which the inner collet is located. In embodiments, a shoulder on the inner collet can prevent axial movement of a shaft-mounted component such as, for example, a bearing.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2012Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Christopher M. Brunner, Jason Ives
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Publication number: 20150159666Abstract: A centrifugal pump has a number of stages, each of the stages having an impeller and a diffuser. The impellers are mounted to the pump drive shaft for rotation. A bearing in at least one of the stages includes a sleeve coupled to the drive shaft for rotation. The sleeve has upper and lower ends and an outer side wall facing radially outward that is convex and spherical. A bushing is mounted in the diffuser and has a bore with an inner side wall facing radially inward that is concave and spherical. A pair of slots is formed in the inner side wall of the bushing 180 degrees apart from each other and extending axially. The slots enable the sleeve to be inserted into the bore with the sleeve axis and bore axis perpendicular to each other, then tilted 90 degrees to coincide the sleeve axis with the bore axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventors: David F. McManus, Jason Ives, Eduardo R. Rodriguez
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Publication number: 20140079574Abstract: A shaft-locating device can include a cylindrical inner collet having an engaging surface on an inner diameter and an outward-facing tapered portion on an outer surface and an outer nut, concentrically located around the inner collet. The outer nut can have an inward-facing tapered portion that engages the outward-facing tapered portion of the inner collet, causing the inner diameter of the inner collet to become smaller, thus engaging, for example, a shaft around which the inner collet is located. In embodiments, a shoulder on the inner collet can prevent axial movement of a shaft-mounted component such as, for example, a bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2012Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Christopher M. Brunner, Jason Ives
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Patent number: 8267645Abstract: A centrifugal pump has impellers that are not connected by a central shaft. More specifically, each of the impellers has a separate hub segment that interlocks with an adjacent hub segment from another impeller. The hub segments are rotated in unison with each other to rotate the impellers.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Christopher M. Brunner, Jason Ives, David W. Chilcoat
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Patent number: 8016035Abstract: Disclosed herein is a safety valve with a chemical injection configuration. The device includes a hydraulic fluid pressure operated piston at the housing. The device further includes a flow tube in operable communication with the piston and a chemical injection configuration disposed within the housing. Further disclosed herein is a method of maintaining the operation of a safety valve by injecting chemical fluid through a configuration within the safety valve. Still further disclosed herein is check valve. The check valve includes a seal, a dart having a closed head and sealable against the seal, one or more flutes on the dart, and a spring applying a biasing force to the dart to a sealing position, that force being overcomeable by a fluid pressure acting in a direction opposing the spring force.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2004Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Scott C. Strattan, Jeffrey K. Adams, Thomas S. Myerley, Jason Ives, Jeffrey C. Williams
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Publication number: 20110027077Abstract: A centrifugal pump has impellers that are not connected by a central shaft. More specifically, each of the impellers has a separate hub segment that interlocks with an adjacent hub segment from another impeller. The hub segments are rotated in unison with each other to rotate the impellers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2009Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Christopher M. Brunner, Jason Ives, David W. Chilcoat
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Publication number: 20090285678Abstract: A multi-stage submersible pump uses impellers having only one shroud to provide stages with shorter stack lengths to allow more stages per housing and more head pressure per housing. The impellers are biased with wave springs to keep the rotating impeller vanes close to the mating diffusers. The entire stack of impellers is assembled in contact with each other using the wave springs and are always under axial load. The wave springs also take up any tolerance variations in the stack to keep the impellers in proper running position. To keep the impellers in their proper locations, thrust washers formed from hard materials are used between adjacent impellers to avoid erosion thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2008Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Christopher Marvin Brunner, Jason Ives
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Publication number: 20090053080Abstract: An electrical submersible pump assembly (ESP) includes a pump section, a motor section, and a seal section. In one embodiment, an exterior of the pump section defines a gripping indentation above the pump intake. Alternatively, a clamp member may be provided that surrounds the pump, wherein the clamp member defines the gripping indentation. A collet adapter is affixed to an upper end of a shroud. The collet adapter has gripping members that engage the gripping indentation for attaching the shroud to the electrical submersible pump assembly. The collet adapter is provided to ease installation of the motor shroud onto the ESP as well as to ease removal of the motor shroud from the ESP. The collet adapter of the present invention eliminates precise alignment and bolt-on requirements of typical motor shroud mounting techniques.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2007Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: JASON IVES, Christopher Marvin Brunner, Van J. McVicker
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Publication number: 20090041597Abstract: An electrical submersible well pump assembly has a motor containing a dielectric lubricant. A seal section is mounted to the motor for reducing pressure differential between the lubricant in the motor and the well bore fluid. The seal section has a head on an end opposite the motor. A pump assembly is mounted to the head of the seal section. An intake is located in the head of the seal section for drawing well bore fluid into the pump assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2007Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Christopher M. Brunner, Jason Ives
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Publication number: 20070277878Abstract: Disclosed herein is a safety valve with a chemical injection configuration. The device includes a hydraulic fluid pressure operated piston at the housing. The device further includes a flow tube in operable communication with the piston and a chemical injection configuration disposed within the housing. Further disclosed herein is a method of maintaining the operation of a safety valve by injecting chemical fluid through a configuration within the safety valve. Still further disclosed herein is check valve. The check valve includes a seal, a dart having a closed head and sealable against the seal, one or more flutes on the dart, and a spring applying a biasing force to the dart to a sealing position, that force being overcomeable by a fluid pressure acting in a direction opposing the spring force.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2007Publication date: December 6, 2007Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Scott Strattan, Jeffrey Adams, Thomas Myerley, Jason Ives, Jeffrey Williams
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Publication number: 20060151177Abstract: A flapper valve assembly is described having an equalizing port assembly with a bleed valve member that is moveable between an open position and a closed position. The equalizing port assembly features a structural support member in the form of a retainer key that is secured to the flapper valve member both axially and radially. Additionally, a compressible spring is located between the structural support member and provides biasing force upon the valve member to urge it toward a closed position. Additionally, the flapper valve member presents a pair of raised, substantially flat actuator contact portions upon its downstream face to meet an actuating tube in a mating contact arrangement and resist material deformation that could tend to clog or block the equalizing fluid flow port.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2005Publication date: July 13, 2006Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Ronald Williams, Van McVicker, Scott Strattan, Jason Ives
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Publication number: 20050098210Abstract: Disclosed herein is a safety valve with a chemical injection configuration. The device includes a hydraulic fluid pressure operated piston at the housing. The device further includes a flow tube in operable communication with the piston and a chemical injection configuration disposed within the housing. Further disclosed herein is a method of maintaining the operation of a safety valve by injecting chemical fluid through a configuration within the safety valve. Still further disclosed herein is check valve. The check valve includes a seal, a dart having a closed head and sealable against the seal, one or more flutes on the dart, and a spring applying a biasing force to the dart to a sealing position, that force being overcomeable by a fluid pressure acting in a direction opposing the spring force.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2004Publication date: May 12, 2005Inventors: Scott Strattan, Jeffrey Adams, Thomas Mycrley, Jason Ives, Jeffrey Williams