Patents by Inventor Kirk J. Huber
Kirk J. Huber 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: 9155983Abstract: A method of making a shape memory structure includes, commingling elastic material with viscoelastic material, and forming a structure with the commingled materials. Altering a shape of the structure, altering an environment the structure is exposed to, to lock in the altered shape of the structure via hardening of the viscoelastic material until the structure is exposed to another environment that softens the viscoelastic material.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Randall V. Guest, Michael H. Johnson, Kirk J. Huber
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Patent number: 9017501Abstract: A method of making a polymeric component includes, extruding one or more strands of a polymer, halting curing of the one or more strands, forming a mat with the extruded one or more strands, bonding the one or more strands to one another at points of contact therebetween, and curing the one or more strands.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Randall V. Guest, Michael H. Johnson, Kirk J. Huber
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Publication number: 20140124981Abstract: A method of making a shape memory structure includes, commingling elastic material with viscoelastic material, and forming a structure with the commingled materials. Altering a shape of the structure, altering an environment the structure is exposed to, to lock in the altered shape of the structure via hardening of the viscoelastic material until the structure is exposed to another environment that softens the viscoelastic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2014Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Randall V. Guest, Michael H. Johnson, Kirk J. Huber
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Patent number: 8684075Abstract: An expandable screen includes, a body constructed of one or more strands of a shape memory material randomly distributed in a mat structure, the body is stable at a first volume and expandable to a second volume upon a change in environment.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Randall V. Guest, Michael H. Johnson, Kirk J. Huber
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Patent number: 8664318Abstract: A shape memory structure includes, an elastic material, and a viscoelastic material commingled with the elastic material. The shape memory structure is reformable from a first shape to a second shape upon exposure to a change in environment that softens the viscoelastic material thereby allowing the shape memory structure to creep under stress stored in the elastic material.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Randall V. Guest, Michael H. Johnson, Kirk J. Huber
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Patent number: 8511955Abstract: A spiral body lock including a mandrel; a sleeve; and at least one of the mandrel and sleeve including a male component, the other of the mandrel and the sleeve including a recess receptive to the male component at least one of the recess and the male component being helically configured and method.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2009Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Kirk J. Huber, Terry R. Bussear
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Publication number: 20120211226Abstract: A screen includes, a body having a permeable material with energy stored therein configured to change the body from a first volume to a second volume, and a binder in operable communication with the body configured to retain the body in the first volume until the binder is weakened sufficiently for the energy stored within the body to overcome the binder and allow the body to change from the first volume toward the second volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Randall V. Guest, Michael H. Johnson, Kirk J. Huber
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Publication number: 20120211223Abstract: An expandable screen includes, a body constructed of one or more strands of a shape memory material randomly distributed in a mat structure, the body is stable at a first volume and expandable to a second volume upon a change in environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Randall V. Guest, Michael H. Johnson, Kirk J. Huber
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Publication number: 20120213979Abstract: A method of making a polymeric component includes, extruding one or more strands of a polymer, halting curing of the one or more strands, forming a mat with the extruded one or more strands, bonding the one or more strands to one another at points of contact therebetween, and curing the one or more strands.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Randall V. Guest, Michael H. Johnson, Kirk J. Huber
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Publication number: 20120211413Abstract: A shape memory structure includes, an elastic material, and a viscoelastic material commingled with the elastic material. The shape memory structure is reformable from a first shape to a second shape upon exposure to a change in environment that softens the viscoelastic material thereby allowing the shape memory structure to creep under stress stored in the elastic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Randall V. Guest, Michael H. Johnson, Kirk J. Huber
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Patent number: 8215399Abstract: A multi-string well has an electric submersible pump (ESP) that can be removed without killing the well. A slotted liner is sealingly secured externally to casing and internally to a guide string that remains in the wellbore when the ESP is removed. A ported sub is part of the guide string and a concentric screen that can have instruments that moves relatively to the guide string can selectively allow flow in an annulus between them and to the ported sub or that annulus between the guide and concentric strings can be blocked off by manipulation of the concentric string to close the ported sub. With the lower portion of the well now blocked off, the wellhead can be removed so that the ESP can come out with the production string. The device has particular application to steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) systems as well as other downhole applications.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Terry R. Bussear, Kirk J. Huber
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Patent number: 8113292Abstract: A strokable liner hanger includes a liner hanger; one of a slide seal and a casing seal sub disposed adjacent the liner hanger and the other of the slide seal and the casing seal sub disposed adjacent the one of the slide seal and the casing seal sub. A method for completing a wellbore is included.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Kirk J. Huber, Terry R. Bussear
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Publication number: 20110016998Abstract: A spiral body lock including a mandrel; a sleeve; and at least one of the mandrel and sleeve including a male component, the other of the mandrel and the sleeve including a recess receptive to the male component at least one of the recess and the male component being helically configured and method.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2009Publication date: January 27, 2011Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Kirk J. Huber, Terry R. Bussear
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Publication number: 20090314499Abstract: A multi-string well has an electric submersible pump (ESP) that can be removed without killing the well. A slotted liner is sealingly secured externally to casing and internally to a guide string that remains in the wellbore when the ESP is removed. A ported sub is part of the guide string and a concentric screen that can have instruments that moves relatively to the guide string can selectively allow flow in an annulus between them and to the ported sub or that annulus between the guide and concentric strings can be blocked off by manipulation of the concentric string to close the ported sub. With the lower portion of the well now blocked off, the wellhead can be removed so that the ESP can come out with the production string. The device has particular application to steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) systems as well as other downhole applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Terry R. Bussear, Kirk J. Huber
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Publication number: 20090283255Abstract: A strokable liner hanger including a liner hanger having one of a polished outside surface and a seal disposed at an outside surface thereof, and a production casing having one of a polished inside surface and a seal. The production casing being complementary to the liner hanger. A strokable liner hanger arrangement in a wellbore including a production casing having one of a polished bore and a seal and a liner hanger in operable communication with the production casing. The liner hanger having one of a polished bore and a seal and being the opposite of the production casing. A method for completing a wellbore with a strokable liner hanger arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Kirk J. Huber, Terry R. Bussear
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Publication number: 20090283278Abstract: A strokable liner hanger including a liner hanger; one of a slide seal and a casing seal sub disposed adjacent the liner hanger; the other of the slide seal and the casing seal sub disposed adjacent the one of the slide seal and the casing seal sub and a method for completing a wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2008Publication date: November 19, 2009Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Kirk J. Huber, Terry R. Bussear