Patents by Inventor Robert Henry Wittman

Robert Henry Wittman 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: 6467545
    Abstract: A monolithic isolation stress joint is disclosed having a first conduit element, a first insulating joint assembly, and a stress joint connected to the first conduit element through the first insulating joint assembly. The stress joint is formed of a material which has advantageous elastic flexure characteristics but which is electrochemically active with respect to the first conduit element from which it is electrically isolated by the first insulating joint assembly. A second conduit element is connected to the stress joint through a second insulating joint assembly, the second conduit element being formed of a material which is electrochemically active with respect to the stress joint and which is electrically isolated therefrom with the second insulating joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Gouri Venkataraman, Vidish Subba Rao, Robert Henry Wittman, Richard Bryan Lee
  • Patent number: 6315497
    Abstract: A heated flowline electrical isolation joint is disclosed for introducing current into a pipe-in-pipe system having an outer and an inner pipe. A hub presents a load flange having tension and compression load shoulders on its terminal end and connects to the inner pipe on its other end. An end flange presents an end flange load shoulder on one end and a high strength, highly electrically insulative first ring separates the compression load shoulder from the end flange load shoulder which engage therethrough in a load bearing relationship. A plurality of o-ring seals secure the compression load shoulder-to-first ring-to-end flange load shoulder interfaces. A retainer flange connects to the end flange on one end and to the outer piper on the other end, encircling the hub and presenting a retainer flange load shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Robert Henry Wittman, Ronald Marshall Bass, Carl Gottlieb Langner