Patents by Inventor Louis A. Curcio

Louis A. Curcio 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).

  • STAGED BURNER
    Publication number: 20180266678
    Abstract: A burner including a body having an air inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end. A gas supply tube is disposed in the body and includes an air swirler and a nozzle at an end thereof. A plurality of outer gas spuds are disposed radially outwardly of the burner outlet, the outer gas spuds including a tube and a spud tip having a first set of openings that are directed generally parallel to an axis of the tube of the outer gas spuds and a second set of openings that are directed at an angle of at least ten degrees to the axis of the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: James Justin FEESE, Robert Bruce HARTMAN, Jacob Mitchell MILLER, Daniel Donald HILL, JR., Matthew Louis CURCIO
  • Reduced vibration tube bundle device
    Patent number: 7219718
    Abstract: A tube bundle device useful in heat exchangers, condensers and other devices which has a number of tube support cages placed at extended locations along the length of the tubes. After the initial construction of the bundle in which the tubes are inserted into the support cages the tube bundle is stiffened by inserting sets of tube stakes between the tube support cages, preferably at the midpoint of the tube span between the cages. The tubes are supported by rods or bars in each tube lane at the tube support cage locations and the rods in each cage are rotated axially with respect to the rods in the next adjacent cage; in a similar manner, the stakes in each set are rotated axially with respect to the stakes in the next axially adjacent set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company
    Inventors: Amar S. Wanni, Thomas M. Rudy, Louis A. Curcio
  • Reduced vibration tube bundle device
    Publication number: 20060237179
    Abstract: A tube bundle device useful in heat exchangers, condensers and other devices which has a number of tube support cages placed at extended locations along the length of the tubes. After the initial construction of the bundle in which the tubes are inserted into the support cages the tube bundle is stiffened by inserting sets of tube stakes between the tube support cages, preferably at the midpoint of the tube span between the cages. The tubes are supported by rods or bars in each tube lane at the tube support cage locations and the rods in each cage are rotated axially with respect to the rods in the next adjacent cage; in a similar manner, the stakes in each set are rotated axially with respect to the stakes in the next axially adjacent set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company Law Department
    Inventors: Amar Wanni, Thomas Rudy, Louis Curcio
  • Reduced vibration tube bundle device
    Patent number: 7073575
    Abstract: A tube bundle device useful in heat exchangers, condensers and other devices which has a number of tube support cages placed at extended locations along the length of the tubes. After the initial construction of the bundle in which the tubes are inserted into the support cages the tube bundle is stiffened by inserting sets of tube stakes between the tube support cages, preferably at the midpoint of the tube span between the cages. The tubes are supported by rods or bars in each tube lane at the tube support cage locations and the rods in each cage are rotated axially with respect to the rods in the next adjacent cage; in a similar manner, the stakes in each set are rotated axially with respect to the stakes in the next axially adjacent set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Amar S. Wanni, Thomas M. Rudy, Louis A. Curcio
  • Reduced vibration tube bundle device
    Publication number: 20060048925
    Abstract: A tube bundle device useful in heat exchangers, condensers and other devices which has a number of tube support cages placed at extended locations along the length of the tubes. After the initial construction of the bundle in which the tubes are inserted into the support cages the tube bundle is stiffened by inserting sets of tube stakes between the tube support cages, preferably at the midpoint of the tube span between the cages. The tubes are supported by rods or bars in each tube lane at the tube support cage locations and the rods in each cage are rotated axially with respect to the rods in the next adjacent cage; in a similar manner, the stakes in each set are rotated axially with respect to the stakes in the next axially adjacent set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Amar Wanni, Thomas Rudy, Louis Curcio
  • Control of flooding in a countercurrent flow reactor by use of temperature of liquid product stream
    Patent number: 6623621
    Abstract: A process for upgrading a liquid petroleum or chemical stream wherein said stream flows countercurrent to the flow of a treat gas, such as a hydrogen-containing gas, in at least one reaction zone. The temperature of at least a portion of the liquid stream in the reactor is used to control the flooding characteristics of the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2003
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Larry L. Iaccino, Russell D. Sellen, David C. Dankworth, Edward S. Ellis, Jeffrey W. Frederick, Ramesh Gupta, James J. Schorfheide, Louis A. Curcio, Jr.