Patents by Inventor Justin P. Vinson
Justin P. Vinson 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: 10435972Abstract: A bottom hole assembly having a packing element, a lower cone disposed below the packing element, and a lower slip disposed below the packing element. The bottom hole assembly also includes a setting tool removably attached to the plug, the setting tool having a mandrel and a setting sleeve connected to the mandrel. Also, a method for sealing a well including disposing a bottom hole assembly having a plug and a removable setting tool in a well. The method further includes applying pressure to a setting sleeve, contacting an inner diameter of the well with a lower slip, locking the lower slip against an inner diameter of the well, shearing a shear mechanism, disconnecting the removable setting tool from the well, dropping a ball into the well, contacting the ball with the packing element, and separating the well into at least two sections.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: VINSON CRUMP, LLCInventors: Matthew A. Crump, Justin P. Vinson
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Patent number: 10364626Abstract: A plug is engageable with a ball for seating in a tubular having an internal profile. The plug's body has a bore with a seat. Blocks disposed on the body are temporarily held in a retracted condition, but the blocks are biased outward to an expanded condition for engaging inside the tubular. The plug sets in the tubular with the blocks released from the retracted condition to the expanded condition. With the ball dropped downhole, the seat engages the ball so that fluid pressure is sealed from uphole to downhole through the bore. With applied fluid pressure against the seated ball, the plug can move through the tubular until the blocks seat in the internal profile of the tubing, sliding sleeve, or other component. A seal on the plug can then seal inside the tubular while the blocks seat in the profile and applied pressure pushes on the seated ball on the plug's mandrel.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLCInventors: Justin P. Vinson, Matthew A. Crump, Chad H. Picciotti
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Publication number: 20180230765Abstract: A bottom hole assembly having a packing element, a lower cone disposed below the packing element, and a lower slip disposed below the packing element. The bottom hole assembly also includes a setting tool removably attached to the plug, the setting tool having a mandrel and a setting sleeve connected to the mandrel. Also, a method for sealing a well including disposing a bottom hole assembly having a plug and a removable setting tool in a well. The method further includes applying pressure to a setting sleeve, contacting an inner diameter of the well with a lower slip, locking the lower slip against an inner diameter of the well, shearing a shear mechanism, disconnecting the removable setting tool from the well, dropping a ball into the well, contacting the ball with the packing element, and separating the well into at least two sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Matthew A. Crump, Justin P. Vinson
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Patent number: 9885224Abstract: A downhole tool, such as a sliding sleeve, deploys on a tubing string in a borehole. The tool has a housing with an internal bore and at least one port communicating outside the housing. An insert disposed in the bore can move from a closed position to an opened position relative to the port so fluid can be communicated to the borehole. A burst band disposed outside the housing at the port can break away from the housing in response to a particular pressure level communicated through the open port. In particular, the insert can have a seat that engages a deployed plug or ball. The insert shifts open when a first level of applied pressure against the seated ball shears the insert free. This can give a first indication that the insert has moved open. Then, a second level of pressure can be detected when the burst band breaks as a second indication that the insert is opened.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLCInventors: John Tough, Justin P. Vinson, Eric M. Blanton, Raymond Shaffer, Luke V. Richey
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Publication number: 20160040492Abstract: A plug is engageable with a ball for seating in a tubular having an internal profile. The plug has a body with a bore with a seat. One or more blocks disposed on the body are temporarily held in a retracted condition, but the one or more blocks are biased outward to an expanded condition for engaging inside the tubular. A seal is disposed on the body for sealing inside the tubular. The plug sets in the tubular with the one or more blocks released from the retracted condition to the expanded condition. With the ball dropped downhole, the seat engages the ball so that fluid pressure is sealed from uphole to downhole through the bore. With applied fluid pressure against the seated ball, the plug can move through the tubular until the blocks seat in the internal profile of the tubing, sliding sleeve, or other component. The seal on the plug can then seal inside the tubular while the blocks seat in the profile and applied pressure pushes on the seated ball on the plug's mandrel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Justin P. Vinson, Matthew A. Crump, Chad H. Picciotti
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Publication number: 20150152709Abstract: A downhole tool, such as a sliding sleeve, deploys on a tubing string in a borehole. The tool has a housing with an internal bore and at least one port communicating outside the housing. An insert disposed in the bore can move from a closed position to an opened position relative to the port so fluid can be communicated to the borehole. A burst band disposed outside the housing at the port can break away from the housing in response to a particular pressure level communicated through the open port. In particular, the insert can have a seat that engages a deployed plug or ball. The insert shifts open when a first level of applied pressure against the seated ball shears the insert free. This can give a first indication that the insert has moved open. Then, a second level of pressure can be detected when the burst band breaks as a second indication that the insert is opened.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: John Tough, Justin P. Vinson, Eric M. Blanton, Raymond Shaffer, Luke V. Richey
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Publication number: 20120325323Abstract: A production system includes, a tubular having a plurality of sets of ports therethrough spaced longitudinally therealong positionable within a structure, at least one screen radial of the tubular defining an annulus between the structure and the at least one screen, at least one solids control mechanism configured to fill the annulus, and a plurality of flow restrictors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Bennett M. Richard, Michael H. Johnson, Justin P. Vinson
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Publication number: 20110277585Abstract: A stroke-controlling device includes a first body having a first surface and a second body movably engaged with the first body having a second surface. A dimension between the first surface and the second surface is configured to engage a tool. And at least one dog is in operable communication with the first body and the second body to maintain the dimension at a first value when in a first position and to limit reduction of the dimension to a second value when in to a second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2010Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Dennis E. Kroll, Paul Madero, Justin P. Vinson, Kevin William Clark
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Patent number: 8037942Abstract: A resettable antiextrusion system including a backup ring, a ramp in operable communication with the backup ring, and a gauge ring attached to the ramp. A method for sealing a tubular.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Justin P. Vinson, Paul Madero
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Patent number: 8016295Abstract: A helical backup element includes a tubular body of material and a helical opening in the tubular body.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2008Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Randall V. Guest, Marc N. Samuelson, Justin P. Vinson, Dennis E. Kroll
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Patent number: 7891433Abstract: A resettable antiextrusion system including a backup ring, a ramp in operable communication with the backup ring, and a gauge ring attached to the ramp. A method for sealing a tubular.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2010Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Justin P. Vinson, Paul Madero
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Publication number: 20100101804Abstract: A resettable antiextrusion system including a backup ring, a ramp in operable communication with the backup ring, and a gauge ring attached to the ramp. A method for sealing a tubular.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2010Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: JUSTIN P. VINSON, PAUL MADERO
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Publication number: 20090321065Abstract: A resettable antiextrusion system including a backup ring, a ramp in operable communication with the backup ring, and a gauge ring attached to the ramp. A method for sealing a tubular.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: JUSTIN P. VINSON, PAUL MADERO
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Publication number: 20090126925Abstract: A helical backup element includes a tubular body of material and a helical opening in the tubular body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: RANDALL V. GUEST, MARC N. SAMUELSON, JUSTIN P. VINSON, DENNIS E. KROLL
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Publication number: 20080156501Abstract: Well tool packing element systems that do not require a back-up element or component include a mandrel, an upper supporting member, a lower supporting member, a cantilever element, and a ramp element disposed on the mandrel. The cantilever element and ramp element are disposed on the mandrel with an interface angle between the cantilever element and the ramp element, the interface angle being less than 90 degrees, preferably in a range from 40 degrees to 60 degrees, and more preferably at an angle greater than 45 degrees. When an axial load is applied to upper and lower supporting members, cantilever element and ramp element are forced outward and into an inner wall surface of a casing to seal off the casing bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2006Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: Justin P. Vinson, Dennis E. Kroll, David S. Bishop, Kevin W. Clark