Patents by Inventor Massimo Zampato

Massimo Zampato 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).

  • Publication number: 20240133503
    Abstract: A process and system for applying a liner to an inner surface of a pipeline uses an “inversion” technique to apply the liner. This involves arranging the liner into everted and non-everted portions and driving the non-everted portion through the pipeline such that it everts and is applied to the inner surface of the pipeline. At least first and second pipeline vehicles are used to drive the non-everted portion of the liner through the pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: ENI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Carminati, Massimo Zampato, Stefano Mauro, Leonardo Sabatino Scimmi
  • Patent number: 11923139
    Abstract: An energy storage device, especially a super capacitor, useful for high temperature applications has current collector elements supporting a carbonaceous matrix modified or doped with pseudo-capacitive materials, including one or more transition metal dichalcogenides, transition metal oxides and mixtures thereof, in contact with a non-aqueous electrolyte composition whereby it is possible to exploit the faradic mechanism in addition to the electric double layer mechanism as an energy storage principle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ENI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Lamberti, Massimo Zampato, Stefano Carminati, Mara Serrapede, Arnaud Nicholas Gigot
  • Patent number: 11860328
    Abstract: A detection system includes a drill bit where electro-acoustic transducers operate as a transmitter and/or receiver, are integrated; electronic circuits; a control unit associated with a data storage unit and is powered by an electrical supply system, the processing and control unit for generating driving signals sent to the electro-acoustic transducer acting as a transmitter by the analogue driving electronic circuits, for acquiring signals received from the transducer and for processing the received signals to determine discontinuity interfaces and/or anomalies in pore pressures in geological formations; wherein each of the electro-acoustic transducers is in contact with a pressurised fluid and includes: a tubular body with two end portions opposed to each other longitudinally, internally a first chamber ending with the first end portion and a second chamber on one side adjacent and in fluid communication with the first chamber and, on the other side ending with the second end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ENI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Carminati, Massimo Zampato, Stefano Mauro, Renato Galluzzi
  • Patent number: 11802639
    Abstract: Tubular structures for use in a subsea environment and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. These composite tubular structures can be used in the oil and gas industry, for example, as production risers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ENI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Carminati, Massimo Zampato, Mariangela Lombardi, Matteo Pavese
  • Publication number: 20230203919
    Abstract: A turbine current generator includes a hollow bearing cylinder to be engaged inside a pipe or duct for the transit of a fluid, in particular a fluid transit duct deriving from the drilling or exploration of an oil field; a hollow rotating cylinder rotatably and coaxially engaged inside the bearing cylinder and defining a respective transit cylindrical chamber for a fluid. The bearing and rotating cylinders defining at least a cylindrical gap; one or more magnetic or electromagnetic components (6)-operatively engaged to the bearing cylinder and/or to the rotating cylinder to generate at least one electric current during the rotation of the rotating cylinder inside the bearing cylinder; an impeller or impellers arranged in the chamber of the rotating cylinder according to positions aligned along a longitudinal axis of the latter, the impellers engaged inside the rotating cylinder to rotate integrally with the latter upon the action of a fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Massimo ZAMPATO, Stefano CARMINATI, Stefano MAURO, Tharek Manuel MOHTAR EIZAGA, Paolo GUGLIELMI
  • Patent number: 11608738
    Abstract: An electro-acoustic transducer includes a tubular body extending a longitudinal direction and having two end portions, opposing each other longitudinally, and internally having a first chamber, sending with the first end portion and a second chamber, on one side adjacent to and in fluidic communication with the first chamber and on the other side ending with the second end portion. The first end portion is closed towards the outside by a membrane applied to the tubular body. The second end portion has openings that put it in fluidic communication to the outside of the tubular body. The first chamber containing electrical windings arranged in succession to each other in the longitudinal direction. The second chamber is filled with a liquid. A movable element is housed in the first chamber and has a permanent magnets packaged and arranged one above the other, with the magnetization alternating and separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: ENI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Carminati, Massimo Zampato, Stefano Mauro, Renato Galluzzi
  • Publication number: 20220397692
    Abstract: A detection system includes a drill bit where electro-acoustic transducers operate as a transmitter and/or receiver, are integrated; electronic circuits; a control unit associated with a data storage unit and is powered by an electrical supply system, the processing and control unit for generating driving signals sent to the electro-acoustic transducer acting as a transmitter by the analogue driving electronic circuits, for acquiring signals received from the transducer and for processing the received signals to determine discontinuity interfaces and/or anomalies in pore pressures in geological formations; wherein each of the electro-acoustic transducers is in contact with a pressurised fluid and includes: a tubular body with two end portions opposed to each other longitudinally, internally a first chamber with the first end portion and a second chamber on one side adjacent and in fluid communication with the first chamber and, on the other side ending with the second end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Stefano CARMINATI, Massimo ZAMPATO, Stefano MAURO, Renato GALLUZZI
  • Publication number: 20220170364
    Abstract: An electro-acoustic transducer includes a tubular body extending a longitudinal direction and having two end portions, opposing each other longitudinally, and internally having a first chamber, sending with the first end portion and a second chamber, on one side adjacent to and in fluidic communication with the first chamber and on the other side ending with the second end portion. The first end portion is closed towards the outside by a membrane applied to the tubular body. The second end portion has openings that put it in fluidic communication to the outside of the tubular body. The first chamber containing electrical windings arranged in succession to each other in the longitudinal direction. The second chamber is filled with a liquid. A movable element is housed in the first chamber and has a permanent magnets packaged and arranged one above the other, with the magnetization alternating and separated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Stefano CARMINATI, Massimo ZAMPATO, Stefano MAURO, Renato GALLUZZI
  • Publication number: 20220049798
    Abstract: Tubular structures for use in a subsea environment and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. These composite tubular structures can be used in the oil and gas industry, for example, as production risers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: ENI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Carminati, Massimo Zampato, Mariangela Lombardi, Matteo Pavese
  • Publication number: 20210375558
    Abstract: An energy storage device, especially a super capacitor, useful for high temperature applications has current collector elements supporting a carbonaceous matrix modified or doped with pseudo-capacitive materials, including one or more transition metal dichalcogenides, transition metal oxides and mixtures thereof, in contact with a non-aqueous electrolyte composition whereby it is possible to exploit the faradic mechanism in addition to the electric double layer mechanism as an energy storage principle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: ENI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Lamberti, Massimo Zampato, Stefano Carminati, Mara Serrapede, Arnaud Nicholas Gigot
  • Patent number: 10865610
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for the implementation of a flexible tubular structure made of reformable composite material, designed for passing from a first folded configuration to a second longitudinally developed operating configuration using a tapered profile slidingly engageable inside the tubular structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: ENI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Carminati, Domenico Antonio Di Renzo, Mauro Favaretto, Massimo Zampato
  • Patent number: 10634551
    Abstract: Reflectometric vibration measurement system to monitor multiphase flows in production wells or pipelines using multimode fibers comprising: —a sensing multimode optical fiber; —an optical source with at least one fiber output port, which generates optical pulses which are to be sent to the sensing fiber; —an optical receiver with at least one multimode fiber input port; —an optical device with at least 3 multimode fiber ports, in which one port is connected to the optical source, one port to the optical receiver, and one port to the sensing multimode fiber; —a system for processing the output signals from the optical receiver, further comprising more than one spatial mode filter. A process for reconfiguring an optical reflectometry system which has already been installed in a monitoring structure is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Eni S.P.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Galtarossa, Luca Palmieri, Massimo Zampato
  • Publication number: 20190234160
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for the implementation of a flexible tubular structure made of reformable composite material, designed for passing from a first folded configuration to a second longitudinally developed operating configuration using a tapered profile slidingly engageable inside the tubular structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: ENI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Stefano CARMINATI, Domenico Antonio DI RENZO, Mauro FAVARETTO, Massimo ZAMPATO
  • Patent number: 10330525
    Abstract: A vibration measurement system and relative method to monitor multiphase flows in extraction wells or conduits, by analysis of backscattered multimode fiber light comprising: • a sensing multimode optical fiber; • an optical source, containing a high coherence laser that emits optical pulses to be sent in said sensing fiber; • a photonic lantern with 3 or more single-mode optical fiber ports and one multimode fiber port that is connected to the sensing multimode fiber; • an optical receiver, comprising a number of photodetectors equal to the number of the single-mode optical fiber ports of said photonic lantern minus 1, wherein each photodetector is connected to each of said single-mode ports; • a system for processing output signals from the optical receiver, the optical source being connected to one of the single-mode optical fiber ports and the other single-mode fibers being connected to the optical receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Eni S.p.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Galtarossa, Luca Palmieri, Massimo Zampato
  • Publication number: 20190114552
    Abstract: Simulation method (100) for simulating the thermo-fluid dynamic behavior of multiphase fluids in a hydrocarbons production and transport system, said method comprising the following steps: outlining (110) the hydrocarbons production and transport system as a plurality of interconnected component blocks, thus creating a schematic representation; modeling (120) each component block with a simplified analytical mathematical model selected from the group of models comprising at least one conduit model, a valve model, a reservoir model and a separator model, each simplified analytical mathematical model comprising a plurality of constitutive equations adapted to describe the thermo-fluid dynamic behavior of the corresponding component block; generating (130) an oriented graph on the basis of the schematic representation; determining (140) a plurality of topological equations on the basis of the oriented graph; determining (150) a plurality of output variables adapted to describe the thermo-fluid dynamic behavior o
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: ENI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Alberto Giulio DI LULLO, Axel TUROLLA, Massimo ZAMPATO
  • Publication number: 20180178185
    Abstract: Process for preventing the formation of hydrates in fluids containing gas or gas condensate, which comprises subjecting said fluids to electromagnetic waves operating in the visible and infrared spectrum region, comprised in the ? band from equal to greater than 500 nm to less than 1 mm (from greater than 300 GHz to less than or equal to 600 THz), reducing or preventing the formation of hydrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: ENI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Stefano CARMINATI, Massimo ZAMPATO
  • Publication number: 20180136036
    Abstract: Reflectometric vibration measurement system to monitor multiphase flows in production wells or pipelines using multimode fibers comprising: a sensing multimode optical fiber; an optical source with at least one fiber output port, which generates optical pulses which are to be sent to the sensing fiber; an optical receiver with at least one multimode fiber input port; an optical device with at least 3 multimode fiber ports, in which one port is connected to the optical source, one port to the optical receiver, and one port to the sensing multimode fiber; a system for processing the output signals from the optical receiver, further comprising more than one spatial mode filter. A process for reconfiguring an optical reflectometry system which has already been installed in a monitoring structure is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Andrea GALTAROSSA, Luca PALMIERI, Massimo ZAMPATO
  • Patent number: 9863242
    Abstract: A method for revealing anomalous discontinuity interfaces in pore pressures in non-drilled geological formations and an implementing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: ENI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Ferrara, Axel Turolla, Massimo Zampato
  • Publication number: 20170336248
    Abstract: A vibration measurement system and relative method to monitor multiphase flows in extraction wells or conduits, by analysis of backscattered multimode fiber light comprising: • a sensing multimode optical fiber; • an optical source, containing a high coherence laser that emits optical pulses to be sent in said sensing fiber; • a photonic lantern with 3 or more single-mode optical fiber ports and one multimode fiber port that is connected to the sensing multimode fiber; • an optical receiver, comprising a number of photodetectors equal to the number of the single-mode optical fiber ports of said photonic lantern minus 1, wherein each photodetector is connected to each of said single-mode ports; • a system for processing output signals from the optical receiver, the optical source being connected to one of the single-mode optical fiber ports and the other single-mode fibers being connected to the optical receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Andrea GALTAROSSA, Luca PALMIERI, Massimo ZAMPATO
  • Patent number: 9329299
    Abstract: A detection system of geological formations, particularly but not exclusively used for oil exploration, and for characterization and monitoring of hydrocarbon reservoirs. The detection system includes an electromagnetic transmission device positioned on a surface of a geological formation close to a first well having a vertical development direction, the first well being covered by a metal casing, and an electromagnetic reception device positioned deep inside the first well, the electromagnetic reception device including an electromagnetic detector. The electromagnetic transmission device includes a primary electromagnetic field generator configured to generate a primary electromagnetic field focalized in a direction of the metal casing, the metal casing irradiating the primary electromagnetic field into the geological formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: ENI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Dell'Aversana, Massimo Zampato