Patents by Inventor Roger Francois Rouviere

Roger Francois Rouviere 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: 4011917
    Abstract: The process enables, while starting from the same basical members, assembled in two different arrangements, to drive an earth-boring tool such as a bit, a milling cutter, a core barrel or the like with a reduced speed or a fast speed, according to the prevailing boring conditions. The downhole motor comprises a shaft and a body constituted by two helicoidal gears arranged within each other, providing an encapsulation preferably of right-handed pitch and having K and K+1 teeth. For providing a reduced speed the body is rotatably mounted and the tool is connected to said body. The shaft is angularly fixed and free to undergo a nutation movement. The resulting speed is the relative speed of rotation between the said body and the said shaft. For providing a fast rotation speed, the body is angularly and radially fixed. The helicoidal shaft meshes with the body and is supported in order freely to rotate around a crank system. The tool is connected to the crank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1977
    Inventors: Wladimir Tiraspolsky, Roger Francois Rouviere