Patents by Inventor Ted Alan Long

Ted Alan Long 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).

  • Fluid pressure reduction device
    Patent number: 7013918
    Abstract: A fluid pressure reduction device comprises a plurality of stacked disks having a perimeter and a hollow center aligned along a longitudinal axis. Each disk has at least one flow path extending between the hollow center and the perimeter, the flow path including an inlet section, an outlet section, and an intermediate section extending between the inlet and outlet sections. Each flow path intermediate section includes a pressure reducing structure and a recovery zone positioned immediately downstream of the pressure reducing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Fisher Controls International LLC.
    Inventors: Michael Wildie McCarty, Ted Alan Long, Michael M. Anderson
  • Fluid pressure reduction device
    Patent number: 6935370
    Abstract: A fluid pressure reduction device comprises a plurality of stacked disks having a perimeter and a hollow center aligned along a longitudinal axis. Each disk has at least one flow path extending between the hollow center and the perimeter, the flow path including an inlet section, an outlet section, and an intermediate section extending between the inlet and outlet sections. Each flow path intermediate section includes a pressure reducing structure and a recovery zone positioned immediately downstream of the pressure reducing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Fisher Controls International LLC
    Inventors: Michael Wildie McCarty, Ted Alan Long, Michael M. Anderson
  • Fluid pressure reduction device
    Publication number: 20040168730
    Abstract: A fluid pressure reduction device comprises a plurality of stacked disks having a perimeter and a hollow center aligned along a longitudinal axis. Each disk has at least one flow path extending between the hollow center and the perimeter, the flow path including an inlet section, an outlet section, and an intermediate section extending between the inlet and outlet sections. Each flow path intermediate section includes a pressure reducing structure and a recovery zone positioned immediately downstream of the pressure reducing structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Michael Wildie McCarty, Ted Alan Long, Michael M. Anderson
  • Fluid pressure reduction device
    Patent number: 6701957
    Abstract: A fluid pressure reduction device comprises a plurality of stacked disks having a perimeter and a hollow center aligned along a longitudinal axis. Each disk has at least one flow path extending between the hollow center and the perimeter, the flow path including an inlet section, an outlet section, and an intermediate section extending between the inlet and outlet sections. Each flow path intermediate section includes a pressure reducing structure and a recovery zone positioned immediately downstream of the pressure reducing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Fisher Controls International LLC
    Inventors: Michael Wildie McCarty, Ted Alan Long, Michael M. Anderson
  • Fluid pressure reduction device
    Publication number: 20030034074
    Abstract: A fluid pressure reduction device comprises a plurality of stacked disks having a perimeter and a hollow center aligned along a longitudinal axis. Each disk has at least one flow path extending between the hollow center and the perimeter, the flow path including an inlet section, an outlet section, and an intermediate section extending between the inlet and outlet sections. Each flow path intermediate section includes a pressure reducing structure and a recovery zone positioned immediately downstream of the pressure reducing structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Inventors: Michael Wildie McCarty, Ted Alan Long, Michael M. Anderson
  • Tortuous path fluid pressure reduction device
    Patent number: 6095196
    Abstract: A fluid pressure reduction device with tortuous flow paths in stacked disks. The fluid flow outlets are maintained independent by directed flow paths to avoid flow collisions in the exiting flow streams. A flow straightening section includes an inwardly tapered end section at the fluid flow outlets. Splitting of a tortuous flow path into at least two sub-flow paths with balancing of the mass flow between the sub-flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Fisher Controls International, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wildie McCarty, Ted Alan Long, Douglas Paul Gethmann, Paul Jay Schafbuch