Patents by Inventor Thorsten Regener
Thorsten Regener 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).
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Patent number: 11319753Abstract: A stator for a downhole motor configured for use in a downhole environment. includes an inner tubular member formed from a first metallic material having an outer surface and a helically lobed inner surface, and an outer tubular member comprising a second metallic material that is different from the first metallic material. The inner tubular member is connected to the outer tubular member by compressive force passing from the outer tubular member through the inner tubular member to a rigid mandrel removably disposed within the inner tubular member. The inner tubular member and the outer tubular member form the stator of the downhole motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Witali Huber, Gunnar Michaelis, Carsten Hohl, Erik Bartscherer, Harald Grimmer, Christian Fulda, Dorothea Marion Fischer, Thorsten Regener
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Publication number: 20220034172Abstract: A well integrity joint including a body, and at least two components of a sensory system, disposed on the joint such that the at least components of a sensory system are connectible by a straight line that does not intersect the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Douglas Patterson, Scott Ingram, Shailesh Dighe, Thorsten Regener, Marc Ramirez
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Publication number: 20210404324Abstract: An apparatus for determining a location of an inner string in an outer string includes an axis parallel to a longitudinal axis of the inner string, and a tagging assembly disposed at a tagging location in the outer string, the outer string configured to be deployed into a borehole in a subterranean region, the inner string configured to be advanced through the outer string. The tagging assembly includes a stop component configured to obstruct axial movement of the inner string through the outer string at the tagging location, the stop component configured to be displaced in response to an axial force applied to the stop component by the inner string, to permit the inner string to advance axially beyond the tagging assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Andreas Peter, Volker Peters, Thorsten Regener, Kjell Magne Gronaas, Frank Johnsen, Gaute Grindhaug, Freddy Seterdal, Rick Frey, Kjetil Holden
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Publication number: 20210148171Abstract: A stator for a downhole motor configured for use in a downhole environment. includes an inner tubular member formed from a first metallic material having an outer surface and a helically lobed inner surface, and an outer tubular member comprising a second metallic material that is different from the first metallic material. The inner tubular member is connected to the outer tubular member by compressive force passing from the outer tubular member through the inner tubular member to a rigid mandrel removably disposed within the inner tubular member. The inner tubular member and the outer tubular member form the stator of the downhole motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2021Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Witali Huber, Gunnar Michaelis, Carsten Hohl, Erik Bartscherer, Harald Grimmer, Christian Fulda, Dorothea Marion Fischer, Thorsten Regener
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Patent number: 10920493Abstract: A method of making a stator includes positioning an inner tubular member having an inner surface within an outer tubular member, installing a rigid mandrel within the inner tubular member, and applying a compressive force to at least one of the inner tubular member and the outer tubular member.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Witali Huber, Gunnar Michaelis, Carsten Hohl, Erik Bartscherer, Harald Grimmer, Christian Fulda, Dorothea Marion Fischer, Thorsten Regener
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Patent number: 10760382Abstract: Systems and methods to perform a downhole operations in a borehole comprising moving, using surface equipment, an inner structure and an outer structure within the borehole, the outer structure equipped with an interaction device and the inner structure configured to be moved relative to the outer structure in a direction parallel to the borehole by the surface equipment, transmitting, by a transmitter, a downlink instruction to the inner structure, and performing an interaction routine with the interaction device in response to the downlink instruction, wherein the interaction routine comprises an interaction at least partially outside of the outer structure to perform the downhole operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Fabian Mau, Heiko Eggers, Henning Melles, Thorsten Regener, Ingo Roders, Matthias Wauer
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Patent number: 10760408Abstract: Methods and systems to initiate downhole operations in a borehole include deploying a first structure at least partially in the borehole, moving a second structure at least partially along the first structure, wherein at least one of the first structure and the second structure is equipped with a sensor and the other of the first and second structure is equipped with a marker detectable by the sensor, detecting a critical event that is related to an interaction of the sensor and the marker, measuring a time-since-critical event, determining a time delay based on the time-since-critical event, transmitting, with a telemetry system, data from the earth's subsurface to the earth's surface indicating that the critical event has been detected, and initiating a downhole operation by using the determined time delay.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Eli William Adetola, Markus Hempel, Thorsten Regener, Matthias Wauer
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Publication number: 20200063547Abstract: A sensor configuration including a centralizer having a rib, a hollow defined within the rib, and a sensor positioned within the hollow. A borehole system including a borehole, a tubular string disposed within the borehole, a centralizer having a rib, and the rib defining a hollow, disposed upon the tubular string, a sensor within the hollow. A method for acquiring data in a borehole including running a sensor configuration as in any prior embodiment on a tubular string into a borehole, cementing the tubular string in the borehole, and sensing with the sensor configuration, a parameter in the borehole.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Shailesh Shashank Dighe, Douglas Patterson, Thorsten Regener
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Patent number: 10443351Abstract: Backflow prevention assemblies and methods for downhole systems having outer strings and inner strings include a housing defining a cavity and being part of the outer string, a flow tube disposed between the inner string and the outer string movable axially within the outer string, and a backflow prevention structure having a flapper and a seal seat, the flapper biased toward a closed position and maintained in an open position by the flow tube. The flapper is housed within the cavity when in the open position and the flapper and seal seat form a fluid seal to prevent fluid flow into or through the flow tube when in the closed position. When the flow tube is moved from a first position that maintains the flapper in the open position to a second position, the backflow prevention structure operates to close the flapper and seal the backflow prevention structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventors: Jannik Paul Hartmann, Matthias Gatzen, Thorsten Regener
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Publication number: 20190136685Abstract: Methods and systems to initiate downhole operations in a borehole include deploying a first structure at least partially in the borehole, moving a second structure at least partially along the first structure, wherein at least one of the first structure and the second structure is equipped with a sensor and the other of the first and second structure is equipped with a marker detectable by the sensor, detecting a critical event that is related to an interaction of the sensor and the marker, measuring a time-since-critical event, determining a time delay based on the time-since-critical event, transmitting, with a telemetry system, data from the earth's subsurface to the earth's surface indicating that the critical event has been detected, and initiating a downhole operation by using the determined time delay.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2017Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Eli William Adetola, Markus Hempel, Thorsten Regener, Matthias Wauer
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Publication number: 20190093459Abstract: Systems and methods to perform a downhole operations in a borehole comprising moving, using surface equipment, an inner structure and an outer structure within the borehole, the outer structure equipped with an interaction device and the inner structure configured to be moved relative to the outer structure in a direction parallel to the borehole by the surface equipment, transmitting, by a transmitter, a downlink instruction to the inner structure, and performing an interaction routine with the interaction device in response to the downlink instruction, wherein the interaction routine comprises an interaction at least partially outside of the outer structure to perform the downhole operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Fabian Mau, Heiko Eggers, Henning Melles, Thorsten Regener, Ingo Roders, Matthias Wauer
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Publication number: 20180238114Abstract: A method of making a stator includes positioning an inner tubular member having an inner surface within an outer tubular member, installing a rigid mandrel within the inner tubular member, and applying a compressive force to at least one of the inner tubular member and the outer tubular member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Witali Huber, Gunnar Michaelis, Carsten Hohl, Erik Bartscherer, Harald Grimmer, Christian Fulda, Dorothea Marion Fischer, Thorsten Regener
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Publication number: 20180016869Abstract: Backflow prevention assemblies and methods for downhole systems having outer strings and inner strings include a housing defining a cavity and being part of the outer string, a flow tube disposed between the inner string and the outer string movable axially within the outer string, and a backflow prevention structure having a flapper and a seal seat, the flapper biased toward a closed position and maintained in an open position by the flow tube. The flapper is housed within the cavity when in the open position and the flapper and seal seat form a fluid seal to prevent fluid flow into or through the flow tube when in the closed position. When the flow tube is moved from a first position that maintains the flapper in the open position to a second position, the backflow prevention structure operates to close the flapper and seal the backflow prevention structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2016Publication date: January 18, 2018Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Jannik Paul Hartmann, Matthias Gatzen, Thorsten Regener
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Patent number: 9624733Abstract: An annularly shaped modular debris barrier can be mounted to an internal or an external member that are spaced apart to define an annular gap that could collect debris. The modules rotationally lock. Modules have circumferential segments that can be initially spaced apart to promote flexing that can occur when there is relative axial movement between the structures that define the annular gap. The gaps between segments are circumferentially offset as between adjacent segments to create a labyrinth through which the fluid can move in opposed direction while at the same time causing the debris to be retained. The segments stay in a flexed condition to exert a contract stress on the free ends thereof that touch the adjacent structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Russell K. Fleetwood, Matthew J. Krueger, Thorsten Regener, Jonathan P. Hanson
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Patent number: 9598920Abstract: A method and apparatus for drilling a wellbore is disclosed. The wellbore is drilled with a drill string that includes a bypass device having a fluid passage therethrough by supplying a fluid through the bypass device at a first flow rate, wherein the fluid circulates to a surface location via an annulus between the drill string and the wellbore. The flow rate of the fluid is altered to a second flow rate. A time period is defined and a mechanical motion of the bypass device is initiated. A parameter related to the mechanical motion of the bypass device and a parameter related to flow rate are detected. The bypass device is activated to divert a portion of the fluid to the annulus when the parameter related to mechanical motion is detected and the parameter related to flow rate is present during the defined time period.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Ingo Roders, Thorsten Regener
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Publication number: 20150345240Abstract: A method and apparatus for drilling a wellbore is disclosed. The wellbore is drilled with a drill string that includes a bypass device having a fluid passage therethrough by supplying a fluid through the bypass device at a first flow rate, wherein the fluid circulates to a surface location via an annulus between the drill string and the wellbore. The flow rate of the fluid is altered to a second flow rate. A time period is defined and a mechanical motion of the bypass device is initiated. A parameter related to the mechanical motion of the bypass device and a parameter related to flow rate are detected. The bypass device is activated to divert a portion of the fluid to the annulus when the parameter related to mechanical motion is detected and the parameter related to flow rate is present during the defined time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Ingo Roders, Thorsten Regener
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Publication number: 20150267499Abstract: An annularly shaped modular debris barrier can be mounted to an internal or an external member that are spaced apart to define an annular gap that could collect debris. The modules rotationally lock. Modules have circumferential segments that can be initially spaced apart to promote flexing that can occur when there is relative axial movement between the structures that define the annular gap. The gaps between segments are circumferentially offset as between adjacent segments to create a labyrinth through which the fluid can move in opposed direction while at the same time causing the debris to be retained. The segments stay in a flexed condition to exert a contract stress on the free ends thereof that touch the adjacent structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2014Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Russell K. Fleetwood, Matthew J. Krueger, Thorsten Regener, Jonathan P. Hanson
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Patent number: 9103180Abstract: In one aspect, the disclosure provides a method of drilling a wellbore, which method, in one embodiment, includes the features of drilling the wellbore with a drill string that includes a bypass device having a fluid passage therethrough by supplying a fluid through the bypass device, wherein the drilling fluid circulates to the surface via an annulus between the drill string and the wellbore; defining a time period (locking time); initiating a selected drilling parameter; detecting downhole the selected drilling parameter and one of the second flow rate and a differential pressure; and activating the bypass device when the selected drilling parameter and one of the second flow rate and the differential pressure are present during the defined time period to divert a portion of the drilling fluid from the bypass device to the annuls. In one aspect, the selected drilling parameter is rotation of a member associated with the bypass device.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Ingo Roders, Thorsten Regener
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Publication number: 20150129311Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus for use in a wellbore is disclosed that in one non-limiting embodiment may include a drive system coupled to a drill bit by a drive sub for drilling a wellbore, wherein the drive system has an associated bend for directional drilling of the wellbore, and a reamer driven by the drive sub, wherein the reamer reams a ledge formed at a transition from a larger diameter wellbore to a smaller diameter of the wellbore during directional drilling of the wellbore.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Thorsten Regener, Jan Lukas Herlitzius
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Patent number: 9004195Abstract: A method of forming a wellbore is disclosed. An inner string and an outer string are conveyed downhole. The inner string is attached to the outer string at a first location and the wellbore is formed. The inner stringy is attached to the outer string at a second location us hole of the first location and an annulus between the outer string and the wellbore is cemented without retrieving the inner string from the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Baker Hughes IncorporatedInventors: Thorsten Regener, Ingo Roders, Carl C. Clemmensen, Sascha Schwartze, Trond R. Skar, Tore Sorheim, Morten Eidem, Gaute Grindhaug