Patents by Inventor Jean-Marc Patroni

Jean-Marc Patroni 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: 5052219
    Abstract: The process for measuring the coefficients of adhesion and friction of a drilling fluid involves, following the standardized filtration of the drilling fluid or mud from which a solid phase "filtration cake" and a liquid phase or filtrate collected on the downstream side of a filter 15 are obtained, placing a metal piston skirt 29 in contact with a filtration cake in the presence of a contact pressure, and measuring the moments of adhesion and friction when the skirt is driven in axial rotation perpendicular to the contact surface, and the axial extraction or contact adhesion force when the skirt is withdrawn after a determinate period of contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Total Compagnie Francaise des Petroles
    Inventors: Jean-Jacques Fery, Jean-Marc Patroni