Patents by Inventor William Lyle Carbaugh

William Lyle Carbaugh 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).

  • Method for monitoring a sealing element
    Patent number: 10190380
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method for monitoring an annular packer are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for monitoring a sealing element of a blowout preventer may include providing a fluid to a chamber disposed within a blowout preventer to actuate a piston disposed within the chamber, wherein the actuation of the piston causes a reduction of an inner diameter of a sealing element; measuring one or more parameters of the fluid via a sensor; receiving data relating to the one or more parameters from the sensor; determining a stiffness of the sealing element utilizing the data relating to the one or more parameters; and determining an amount of degradation of the sealing element by comparing the determined stiffness of the sealing element to a known data profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Deepak Trivedi, William Lyle Carbaugh, Gregory Ronald Gillette, Joseph Alan Incavo, Weina Ge
  • METHOD FOR MONITORING A SEALING ELEMENT
    Publication number: 20150330173
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method for monitoring an annular packer are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for monitoring a sealing element of a blowout preventer may include providing a fluid to a chamber disposed within a blowout preventer to actuate a piston disposed within the chamber, wherein the actuation of the piston causes a reduction of an inner diameter of a sealing element; measuring one or more parameters of the fluid via a sensor; receiving data relating to the one or more parameters from the sensor; determining a stiffness of the sealing element utilizing the data relating to the one or more parameters; and determining an amount of degradation of the sealing element by comparing the determined stiffness of the sealing element to a known data profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Deepak Trivedi, William Lyle Carbaugh, Gregory Ronald Gillette, Joseph Alan Invaco, Weina Ge