Patents by Inventor Robert Clay Patterson

Robert Clay Patterson 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: 11053770
    Abstract: An electrical submersible pump (“ESP”) has a seal member that carries a packer. A retainer initially retains the packer in a fixed axial position with the seal member as the ESP is lowered into a well conduit. The retainer is releasable after the packer has been set in the conduit in response to a thermal growth axial force on the seal member, enabling relative axial movement between the seal member and the packer. The seal member has annular seal rings that extend over an axial length on the tubular member that is greater than an axial length of the bore of the packer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: John J. Mack, Robert Clay Patterson
  • Patent number: 10125759
    Abstract: A well pump assembly includes a pump and a motor that contains a dielectric motor lubricant and a pressure equalizer containing a bellows. The bellows has an interior in fluid communication with the motor lubricant and an exterior immersed in well fluid. The bellows is axially extendable and contractible in response to a pressure differential between the well fluid and the motor lubricant. A tube has a lower end secured to a tube port in the pressure equalizer housing and an upper end secured to a lower end of the bellows. The tube has a center line that makes at least one curved flexible bend between the tube upper end and the tube lower end to enable the tube to flex as the bellows extends and contracts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: BAKER HIGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Steven W. Pyron, Kelsey A. McKinney, Robert Clay Patterson, Kevin R. Bierig
  • Publication number: 20160312591
    Abstract: A well pump assembly includes a pump and a motor that contains a dielectric motor lubricant and a pressure equalizer containing a bellows. The bellows has an interior in fluid communication with the motor lubricant and an exterior immersed in well fluid. The bellows is axially extendable and contractible in response to a pressure differential between the well fluid and the motor lubricant. A tube has a lower end secured to a tube port in the pressure equalizer housing and an upper end secured to a lower end of the bellows. The tube has a center line that makes at least one curved flexible bend between the tube upper end and the tube lower end to enable the tube to flex as the bellows extends and contracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Steven W. Pyron, Kelsey A. McKinney, Robert Clay Patterson, Kevin R. Bierig