Patents Issued in January 6, 2011
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Publication number: 20110000651Abstract: A cooling apparatus for cooling objects from a painting device is disclosed. The cooling apparatus comprises a housing enclosing a cooling zone, a transport device for transporting workpieces through the cooling apparatus along a transport direction from an entry region through the cooling zone and through an exit region. A heat exchanger is configured for cooling air from the cooling zone and to redirect cooled air into the cooling zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Gerd WURSTER
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Publication number: 20110000652Abstract: Having a correlative relation indicator for indicating a correlative relation so that the supply current to be supplied to an inverter circuit may be varied proportionally to the voltage applied to the inverter circuit, a supply current value controller controls the average current to be supplied to the inverter circuit so as to be equal to the value of the supply current indicated by the correlative relation indicator, and therefore if the pressure loss or the static pressure is changed, a wind volume-static pressure of high precision extremely small in the changing amount of wind volume is realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Masayuki Takada
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Publication number: 20110000653Abstract: An air delivery unit includes a casing, an air delivery device arranged in a fan passage in the casing, and a fan guard that is arranged at an air outlet of the casing and has an air blowing surface having a grill structure and a hollow frame wall portion. An air blowing opening is formed in the frame wall portion of the fan guard. This structure allows the air to be blown also from the opening of the frame wall portion of the fan guard. This reduces the amount and the speed of the air blown from the air blowing surface of the fan guard having the grill structure. As a result, rise of static pressure of the air delivery device is suppressed and noise caused by interference between bars of an air blowing grill and the air is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Suguru Nakagawa, Jirou Yamamoto, Masahiro Shigemori
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Publication number: 20110000654Abstract: A cooling device having a first fan, a second fan upstream of the first fan, and a flow conditioner element that includes a housing with a first side having a flow-conditioner plate, a second side opposite the first side that defines an opening, and a duct between the first side and the second side, wherein the flow-conditioner plate is attached to a side of the first fan proximal to the second fan and the second side of the housing is attached to a side of the second fan proximal to the first fan. A method for cooling electronic components and a fan assembly are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Shailesh N. Joshi, Punan Tang
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Publication number: 20110000655Abstract: A device for supplying electrical power and cooled air to equipment comprising an uninterruptible power supply (2) and a cooling system (3). The uninterruptible power supply comprises a battery (4), arranged to supply power to the equipment, and a power supply unit (5), arranged to charge the battery from an external power supply. The cooling system comprises a thermal store (7) and a refrigeration unit (8), arranged to cool the thermal store, powered by the external power supply. The thermal store comprises a material able to absorb heat, such as a mix of water and ethylene glycol. Supplies of both electrical power and cooled air to the equipment can thus be maintained in the event of the temporary interruption of the external power supply.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2007Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: David Coulthurst, Rupert Peter Wolgram
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Publication number: 20110000656Abstract: A flat tube for use with a heat exchanger. The flat tube including wide sides, narrow sides, an inner insert, a wall that at least partially forms the wide sides and the narrow sides, and the wall is configured to be produced from a punched-out blank. The flat tube further includes an introduction bevel in order to facilitate introduction of the inner insert. The introduction bevel includes at least two bent-down projections at an end of the flat tube. The at least two projections extend over portions of at least one of the wide sides and the narrow sides, and it being possible for the at least two projections to be separated off after the introduction of the inner insert.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: Modine Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Ingo Daut
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Publication number: 20110000657Abstract: An extruded tube for a heat exchanger is provided that includes two at least approximately parallel outer side walls that extend in a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction of the extruded tube and that are connected by two outer narrow sides in a vertical direction of the extruded tube, wherein at least one continuous web extends between the side walls in the longitudinal direction and in the vertical direction and separates at least two ducts of the extruded tube, and wherein at least one of the outer side walls has embossings that serve to form both bulged portions that project into the ducts of the side walls and also bulged portions that extend substantially in the transverse direction of the web, wherein the bulged portions of the at least one web have a controlled orientation with respect to the transverse direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Jens RUCKWIED, Ulrich Maucher, Peter Geskes
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Publication number: 20110000658Abstract: A hydrophilic member is provided which comprises a substrate of every kind having formed thereon a surface having excellent antifouling properties, quick-drying properties of water or the like, and wear resistance and being flexible. A hydrophilic member which is characterized by having an overcoat layer formed from a hydrophilic composition containing at least one of a hydrophilic polymer (A) containing a specific structure and a hydrophilic polymer (B) containing a specific structure; and an undercoat layer formed from a composition for forming the undercoat layer containing an alkoxide (C) represented by the general formula (III) of M(OR14)4 wherein M represents an element selected from among Si, Ti, and Zr and an alkoxysilane (D) represented by the general formula (IV) of Si(OR15)aR164-a wherein R14 to R16 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, and a represents 2 or 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Yoshiaki Kondo
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Publication number: 20110000659Abstract: A thermostat is provided that is capable of reliably reducing the operation of an air conditioner and other systems to provide energy cost savings to the consumer and load reduction to a utility provider. The thermostat includes at least one sensor configured to communicate information indicative of the temperature within the space, and a memory for storing at least one temperature offset value associated with a request for reduced heating or reduced cooling operation. The thermostat further includes a controller in communication with the at least one sensor, which is configured to periodically determine a temperature value for the space and to control heating or cooling of the space until the determined temperature value has substantially reached the set-point temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Carl J. Mueller, John M. Sartain, James P. Garozzo
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Publication number: 20110000660Abstract: A modular valve body includes, a tubular defining an inner bore extending longitudinally therethrough and the tubular has standardized fittings at both ends that are connectable to a drillstring or tubing. The body further has a first surface disposed at the tubular that is in fluidic communication with the inner bore by at least one port, the first surface is receptive to any one of a plurality of selectable modular valves mountable thereat, and a second surface disposed at the tubular is receptive to a circuit configurable to control the selected one of the plurality of selectable modular valves.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Paul Joseph, John R. Abarca, Luis E. Mendez
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Publication number: 20110000661Abstract: For extracting oil from wells, pipe string, packer with axial through hole and support with axial channel with seat for jet pump mounting. Bypass channel with return valve is in support wall. Pump has cylindrical body with annular shoulder, for support seat mounting. Body has channel for supplying active medium to the pump nozzle, channels for supplying pumped out medium and removing media mixture and through channel with sealing unit. The channel couples to unit downstream channel. The unit has axial channel passing and displacing a logging cable/instrument. Mixing chamber with diffuser connected to the pipe string cavity upstream of pump positions axially to the nozzle. Channel diameter of support downstream of seat is equal to or greater than packer hole. The invention makes it possible to extend the device functionalities due to the possibility of disconnecting the in-tube space and casing annulus when the pump is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Zinoviy Dmitrievich Khomynets
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Publication number: 20110000662Abstract: A source of motion for actuation of a downhole tool is in a sealed housing to protect it from well fluids. The sealed housing is filled with an incompressible fluid and thermal effects can be compensated preferably with a compensation bellows in communication with the fluid. The source of motion is preferable electrically powered and the longitudinal motion that results presses against a bellows within the sealed housing. This master bellows is in sealed contact with a slave bellows through a rigid housing that is seal welded to the housing wall. Movement of the master bellows in the housing results in an equal movement of the slave bellows outside the housing. Feedback loops or calibration for thermal effects are also contemplated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventor: Larry G. Schoonover
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Publication number: 20110000663Abstract: A device is described for removal of a plug which is used in a well, a pipe, or the like for carrying out tests, and it is characterised by an element which, with an applied forced, is arranged to penetrate into the plug material so that this is crushed, said element is arranged to be supplied said force from an above lying element. The element (16) is preferably a ring (1) the lower end of which is arranged to be forced in a radial direction into the plug element at axial driving of a hydraulic pressure piston. Furthermore, the element is integrated into the plug.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Viggo Brandsdal
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Publication number: 20110000664Abstract: A swage is made from segments that slide relatively to each other to go from a run in dimension to a maximum or built dimension when the segments move into alignment. The angle of inclination of the sliding axis between the members is less than the swaging angle for the pipe on the exterior of the segments so that once the segments are aligned and driven into a tubular for swaging they are precluded from extending into misalignment to clear an obstruction. In this manner a minimum drift is provided or the swage simply stalls. To facilitate building the swage in a tubular to the predetermined maximum dimension, the sliding surfaces are configured at an angle to bear the radial reaction forces from the tubular more directly thereby reducing the contact forces and the resulting friction. The edge connections are also configured to reduce bending which can cause segment binding as the swage is built in the tubular.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Mark K. Adam, Keven M. O'Connor, Jeffrey C. Williams
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Publication number: 20110000665Abstract: A downhole tool includes a pressure housing deployed in the bore of a drill collar. At least three fins are deployed on the housing and in the tool annulus. At least one of the fins includes a floating blade deployed thereon. The blade includes a plurality of radial pistons deployed therein. The pistons are configured such that the surface area of the radially outward facing piston surfaces is greater than the surface area of the radially inward facing piston surfaces. This piston configuration causes the surface area of the radially outward facing blade surface to be less than the radially inward facing blade surface. In operation, hydrostatic pressure exerts a differential force on the pistons and the floating blade thereby urging the pistons radially inward towards the housing and the blade radially outward towards the drill collar.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: SMITH INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventor: Dennis Patrick Chesnutt
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Publication number: 20110000666Abstract: The device of the present invention belongs to the field of the steam generators devices. Specifically, the device described herein is based constructively in a rocket-type engine for generates instantaneously a vitiated steam, which is a mix of water steam with combustion gases. The device described herein is a modular device whose each module may be changed in case of break or clogging. The device of this invention provides energy for the operation of different steam equipment, such as turbines, engines, locomotives, among other possible, as well as the combination of them. The device of this invention may also be attached in petroleum wells, making feasible the extraction of petroleum from the mature wells.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Heraldo Da Silva Couto
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Publication number: 20110000667Abstract: A method of fracturing using deformable proppants minimizes proppant pack damage, without compromising the fracturing fluid's proppant transport properties during pumping, by use of deformable proppants. Selection of proppant is dependent upon the mechanical properties of the formation rock. The strength of the deformable proppant is dependent upon the modulus of the formation rock being treated such that the proppant is capable of providing, at the very least, a minimum level of conductivity in in-situ stress environments. The maximum elastic modulus of the deformable proppant is less than the minimum modulus of the formation rock which is being treated. The method is particularly applicable in fracturing operations of subterranean reservoirs such as those comprised primarily of coal, chalk, limestone, dolomite, shale, siltstone, diatomite, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Harold Dean Brannon, Allan Ray Rickards, Christopher John Stephenson, Russell L. Maharidge
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Publication number: 20110000668Abstract: Apparatus for performing rotary or cutting operations in a subterranean borehole or conduit, particularly sealing operations, comprises a downhole assembly connected to a cable. The downhole assembly comprising at least one of a rotary tool coupled to an electric motor or fluid motor, a rotary tool coupled to a fluid motor, or an axial cutting tool coupled to a piston. The fluid motor or piston is operated by differential fluid pressure created within the bore. Methods of sealing a subterranean borehole are also provided, in which one or more cuts are made with a cutting assembly in one or more conduits to remove at least a portion of a conduit and concrete is deposited in the resulting space. The space is free of debris, which could otherwise form leakage paths in the concrete seal. In a variant the space is created with a downhole crushing apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Bruce A. Tunget
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Publication number: 20110000669Abstract: A perforating gun assembly for use in a wellbore. The perforating gun assembly includes a carrier gun body and a charge holder disposed within the carrier gun body. A plurality of shaped charges are supported within the carrier gun body. A secondary pressure generator is operably associated with at least one of the shaped charges. The secondary pressure generator optimizes the wellbore pressure regime immediately after detonation of the shaped charges by controlling the dynamic underbalance created by the empty gun chambers to prevent excessive dynamic underbalance which may detrimentally effect the perforating operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Darren Ross Barlow, Cam Van Le, James Marshall Barker
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Publication number: 20110000670Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for severing a wellbore tubular, the apparatus, in certain aspects, including: a first member movable toward a tubular to be severed; a second member with a second blade disposed opposite to the first member and movable toward the tubular; a first blade on the first member having a projection projecting from a center of a blade body with point structure on the projection for puncturing the tubular and cutting surfaces on the projection for cutting the tubular; and cutting surfaces, as needed, on the blade body adjacent the projection for cutting the tubular.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P.Inventors: Frank Benjamin Springett, James D. Brugman
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Publication number: 20110000671Abstract: Methods and systems for low emission power generation in hydrocarbon recovery processes are provided. One system includes integrated pressure maintenance and miscible flood systems with low emission power generation. The system may also include integration of a pressure swing reformer (PSR), air-blown auto-thermal reformer (ATR), or oxygen-blown ATR with a gas power turbine system, preferably a combined cycle gas power turbine system. Such systems may be employed to capture and utilize greenhouse gases (GHG) and generate power for use in hydrocarbon recovery operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Frank Hershkowitz, Eric Nelson, Patrick McMahon
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Publication number: 20110000672Abstract: A treating fluid may contain an effective amount of a particulate additive to stabilize clays, such as clays in a subterranean formation, by inhibiting or preventing them from swelling and/or migrating, where the particulate additive is an alkaline earth metal oxide, alkaline earth metal hydroxide, alkali metal oxide, alkali metal hydroxide, transition metal oxide, transition metal hydroxide, post-transition metal oxide, post-transition metal hydroxide, piezoelectric crystal, and/or pyroelectric crystal. The particle size of the magnesium oxide or other agent may be nanometer scale, which scale may provide unique particle charges that help stabilize the clays. These treating fluids may be used as treatment fluids for subterranean hydrocarbon formations, such as in hydraulic fracturing, completion fluids, gravel packing fluids and fluid loss pills. The carrier fluid used in the treating fluid may be aqueous, brine, alcoholic or hydrocarbon-based.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventor: Tianping Huang
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Publication number: 20110000673Abstract: Lost circulation of drilling fluid is one of the most serious and expensive problems facing the drilling industry. The present invention relates to an improved drilling fluid for reducing or preventing lost circulation to an underground formation surrounding a well bore in the process of drilling a well. The drilling fluid comprises a base fluid and wax or waxy substance as a primary seepage loss agent. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the seepage loss agent does not include particles having a blend of natural wax and synthetic wax together in a single particle. The invention also provides a method of reducing or preventing lost circulation to an underground formation surrounding a well bore in the process of drilling a well using the drilling fluid of the invention, wherein the primary seepage loss agent is added to the drilling fluid, either before or during drilling, and the drilling fluid is pumped down hole during drilling.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: CANADIAN ENERGY SERVICES, LPInventor: Terry W. Hoskins
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Publication number: 20110000674Abstract: A downhole manifold configured to manage fluid flow to or from a subterranean formation including a housing in operable communication with two or more fluid pathways and having one or more ports for fluid communication with a flow channel; and a valve stem disposed within the housing and actuable to fluidly select one of the two or more fluid pathways and to fluidly communicate that pathway with the one or more ports.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: LUIS E. MENDEZ, PAUL JOSEPH, TODD C. JACKSON
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Publication number: 20110000675Abstract: A downhole device having an oil/water separator having a well fluid inlet, an oil stream outlet conduit, and a water stream outlet conduit; a removable flow-restrictor located in at least one of the water stream outlet conduit or the oil stream outlet conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Matthew R. Hackworth, Nihat Ovutmen, Kevin J. Forbes, Lance I. Fielder, Allan Ross
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Publication number: 20110000676Abstract: A plug element for conducting tests of a well, a pipe or the like, comprising one or more plug bodies of disintegratable/crushable material set up to be ruptured by internally applied effects, is disclosed. The plug element of the invention comprises an internal hollow space set up to fluid communicate with an external pressure providing body, and the plug is designed to be blown apart by the supply of a fluid to the internal hollow space so that the pressure in the hollow space exceeds an external pressure to a level at which the plug is blown apart.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: TCO ASInventor: Viggo Brandsdal
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Publication number: 20110000677Abstract: Subsea test apparatus comprises: a connector for mating with a corresponding connector of subsea apparatus to provide at least one of electrical, optical, and fluid connection between the test apparatus and the subsea apparatus; measuring means connected to the test apparatus's connector and operable underwater in a measurement mode; a power supply arranged to power the measuring means; and disconnection means for disconnecting the test apparatus's connector from a mated subsea apparatus's connector. The measuring means, in said measurement mode, is arranged to perform at least one measurement, via the mated connectors, on connected subsea apparatus, and the test apparatus further comprises indicating means operable underwater and arranged to provide an indication of a result of the or each measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: ZETECHTICS LIMITEDInventor: Timothy Mark Overfield
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Publication number: 20110000678Abstract: A method for efficient inversion of measured geophysical data from a subsurface region to prospect for hydrocarbons. Gathers of measured data (40) are encoded (60) using a set of non-equivalent encoding functions (30). Then all data records in each encoded gather that correspond to a single receiver are summed (60), repeating for each receiver to generate a simultaneous encoded gather (80). The method employs iterative, local optimization of a cost function to invert the encoded gathers of simultaneous source data. An adjoint method is used to calculate the gradients of the cost function needed for the local optimization process (100). The inverted data yields a physical properties model (110) of the subsurface region that, after iterative updating, can indicate presence of accumulations of hydrocarbons.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Jerome R. Krebs, David L. Hinkley
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Publication number: 20110000679Abstract: A tubular valve system includes, a tubular, a primary valve actuatable to control occlusion of at least one port fluidically connecting an inner bore of the tubular with an outside of the tubular, and a contingency valve actuatable to control occlusion of at least one port fluidically connecting the inner bore with the outside of the tubular.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Paul Joseph, John R. Abarca, Luis E. Mendez
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Publication number: 20110000680Abstract: A remotely controllable flow control configuration including a body; one or more flow restrictors disposed in the body; and a selector fluidly connected with the body and capable of supplying or denying fluid to one or more of the one or more flow restrictors and method.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: RICARDO A. TIRADO, PRIYESH RANJAN
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Publication number: 20110000681Abstract: New locking connector assemblies and telescoping extension/retraction assemblies are disclosed that operate on the natural spring rate constraints of radial protrusions or radially constrained rings as they interact with engaging members to provide the locking force and permit the connector and extension retraction assemblies to be engage and disengaged or extended and retracted.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Peter R. Harvey, Michael H. Johnson, Yang Xu
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Publication number: 20110000682Abstract: An internally gripping tong to rotate tubular segments comprising a central cam body rotatably disposed within a housing having a plurality of windows. The cam body is surrounded by a plurality of angularly distributed gripping jaws slidably received within the windows. The tong is disposed within a bore of a tubular segment, and rotation of the housing relative to the cam body deploys the gripping jaws radially outwardly within the windows to engage the interior wall of the tubular segment. The tong may be self-energizing in both the make-up and the break-out modes of operation. The tong may be deployed to grip the tubular segment using a device to frictionally couple the housing to the tubular segment that cooperates with the top drive assembly, or by an internal actuator that imparts rotation to the housing relative to the cam body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: Frank's Casing Crew & Rental Tools, Inc.Inventors: Charles Michael Webre, Brennan S. Domec, Vernon J. Bouligny, JR.
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Publication number: 20110000683Abstract: Apparatus and a method for deploying a wireline tool in a borehole. The apparatus comprises a wireline cable which is connected at a first end at the surface and is releasably connected at a second end to a first end of an umbilical cable via a first connection means. A second end of the umbilical cable is releasably connected to the logging head of a wireline tool via a first latching means, wherein the logging head provides for mechanical and electrical connection between the wireline tool and the wireline cable via the umbilical cable. The umbilical cable is surrounded by umbilical pipe downhole, and the logging head also provides for mechanical and hydraulic connection between the umbilical pipe and the wireline tool. The wireline tool is releasable from connection with the umbilical cable by a release means in the first latching means, and is capable of being pulled through the first latching means and through the umbilical pipe so that it is retrievable from the borehole.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Henri Denoix, Charles Deible
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Publication number: 20110000684Abstract: An apparatus and associated method for controlling a flow of a fluid between a wellbore tubular and a formation may utilize a particulate control device positioned external to the wellbore tubular and a retrievable flow control element that controls a flow parameter of a fluid flowing between the particulate control device and a bore of the wellbore tubular. The flow control element may be re-configured in the wellbore and/or be used to inject a fluid into the formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Jack E. Charles, Benn A. Voll, Matthew Shane Clews, Eddie G. Bowen
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Publication number: 20110000685Abstract: A dry-type vacuum sprinkler system is provided, from which water remaining in a secondary pipe system can be easily removed and shortcomings typically seen in a dry-type sprinkler system are dissolved. The dry-type vacuum sprinkler system of the invention is secured from a quick fire extinguishment operation at the time of a fire. The sprinkler system of the invention includes a negative pressure state maintenance member for maintaining air charged in the secondary pipe system in a negative pressure state. The negative pressure state is defined as a normal state in the invention. The negative pressure state maintenance member includes a suction pipe 53 which extends to an upper position of the secondary pipe system 24, and communicates with the secondary pipe system 24, and a suction pump 51 provided on the suction pipe 53. The suction pump 51 suctions the air of the secondary pipe system 24 from the upper position of the secondary pipe system 24.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Gengo Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20110000686Abstract: A fire suppression apparatus adapted for connection to a water supply for a faucet has one or more spray nozzles (26), at least one valve (20) operable into an open position to fluidly couple the one or more spray nozzles (26) to a water supply for a faucet (4), a fire sensor (28), and a controller (21) connected to the fire sensor (28), and upon sensing a fire, the fire sensor (28) is adapted to trigger the controller (21) to operate the at least one valve (20) into the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2007Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Benjamin Adair Munro
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Publication number: 20110000687Abstract: A plastic mulch retriever is disclosed comprising a body and at least one cutting or digging element mounted to the body to loosen plastic mulch embedded in the ground. A conveyor is mounted to the body rearward of the at least one cutting or digging elements to engage the loosened plastic mulch and remove at least some of the ground material attached to the extracted plastic mulch. At least one storage device is mounted to the body rearward of the conveyor to store the retrieved plastic mulch.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: ROCCA MANUFACTURING PTY LTDInventor: Antonio Roberto Rocca
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Publication number: 20110000688Abstract: Tightening torque is appropriately managed by a simple means. An electric rotating tool (40) has a brushless DC motor (2), an inverter circuit part (3), and a control circuit part (4). The control circuit part (4) has a current detecting circuit (18), which detects a motor current I, a rotation number detecting circuit (17), which detects the number of rotations of the motor (N), and a computing part (19), which calculates first tightening torque (T1) based on the detection information of the motor current (I) and calculates second tightening torque (T2) based on the number of rotations of the motor (N). The computing part (19) estimates tightening torque Tave based on the estimate value of the first tightening torque (T1) or the second tightening torque (T2). The computing part (19) stops driving the motor (2) when the estimated tightening torque Tave exceeds a set value Tset.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2009Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Kazutaka Iwata
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Publication number: 20110000689Abstract: A power tool 1 is connected to a battery pack 5 including an overcurrent detector 533 which detects overcurrent of a battery module 51 and outputs a detection signal, and an overdischarge detector 532 which detects overdischarge of the battery module 51 and outputs a detection signal. The power tool 1 includes a motor 2 which is driven by electric power supplied from the battery pack 5, a trigger switch 31 for setting the power supply from the battery pack 5 to the motor 2 in ON/OFF state, and an FET 410 which sets the power supply to the motor 2 in ON/OFF state on the basis of the detection signal from the overcurrent detector 533 or the overdischarge detector 532.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Funabashi, Shinji Watanabe, Eiji Nakayama
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Publication number: 20110000690Abstract: The present invention provides a handle for transferring rotary motion from a rotary tool to a rotary-oscillating attachment, for converting a rotary tool to a remote oscillatory tool. The handle attaches the rotary-oscillating attachment to a rotating drive shaft of the rotary tool through a flexible shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Michael Kildevaeld
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Publication number: 20110000691Abstract: The invention relates to a power tool, in particular a hand power tool (1), comprising an electric drive motor (2) which may be operated by means of a motor switch element (8) and a gearbox (3) driven by the drive motor (2), with a first and at least one second speed. According to the invention, the motor switch element (8) is coupled to the gearbox (3) such that the same can be switched from the second speed to the first speed by means of the motor switch element (8).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventor: Heiko Roehm
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Publication number: 20110000692Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-held power tool with a tool clamping unit and an adjustment ring. The invention provides that the adjustment ring protrudes forwards in an axial direction beyond an axially rear end of the tool clamping unit, at least when the tool clamping unit is completely open. The invention further relates to an adjustment ring for a hand-held power tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Heiko Roehm
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Publication number: 20110000693Abstract: The invention relates to a striking mechanism of a handheld electric power tool, in particular a percussion drill and/or percussion hammer, having a hammer cylinder, a piston mounted with a guide section inside the hammer cylinder in a longitudinally displaceable manner, and a piston outer guide on which a guide area of the piston is guided in a longitudinally displaceable manner. A piston end located outside the hammer cylinder comprises an overlap for overlapping an end area of the hammer cylinder, and the guide area at least partially belongs to the overlap or is affixed there.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2007Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Rudolf Fuchs
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Publication number: 20110000694Abstract: A torque sensing unit for a power tool arranged to generate a torque responsive signal by sensing the reaction torque transferred from a ring gear of a planetary reduction gearing to the tool housing. The torque sensing unit includes an annular torque transferring element disposed perpendicularly to the geometric axis of the ring gear and being formed with a first pair of external engagement portions for connecting the torque transferring element to the housing, a second pair of external engagement portions for connecting the torque transferring element to the ring gear, and at least one pair of weak elastically deformable zones located between the engagement portions and provided with sensors for delivering signals in response to the transferred reaction torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Gunnar Christer Hansson, Erik Vilhelm Persson
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Publication number: 20110000695Abstract: The present invention relates to a pulse generating device for inducing a shock wave in a tool, wherein the said pulse generating device comprises an impact means (201; 301) for transferring energy to a drill string (202) connected to the said tool, and wherein the energy transfer gives rise to the said shock wave, in which the said energy is mainly constituted by elastic energy stored in the impact means (201; 301) and/or an energy store. The device comprises control means for controlling the interaction of the impact means (201; 301) with the drill string (202), wherein the said control means for controlling the interaction of the impact means (201; 301) with the drill string (202) comprises a motor (207; 307), and wherein the said motor (207; 307) is designed to, through rotation, alternately open ducts for pressurization and depressurization of at least one drive surface (205) acting upon the said impact means.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: Fredrik Saf
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Publication number: 20110000696Abstract: A power tool includes a case; a motor installed within the case, the motor comprising a motor housing and a rotor with shaft; a gear train comprising a gear train housing and a speed reduction mechanism installed within the gear train housing and connected to the shaft of the motor. The motor housing and the gear train housing are integrally formed as a common housing and fixed relative to the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventor: James Ching Sik LAU
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Publication number: 20110000697Abstract: A foreign matters trap in which a metallic corrugated plate is arranged in a ground tank so that a line connecting portions of the corrugated plate having the same height is made parallel to a central axis of the ground tank, a metallic round rod is mounted to an corrugated end of the corrugated plate, the corrugated plate and the metallic round rod are connected electrically to each other, and a surface of the corrugated plate is covered by an insulating material. The foreign matters trap is capable of surely trapping metallic foreign matters in a gas insulated electric apparatus and suppressing concentration of an electric field to become excellent in voltage endurance and which can be readily mounted in a ground tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2007Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takao Tsurimoto, Manabu Yoshimura, Hitoshi Sadakuni, Yoshinori Shimizu, Takashi Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20110000698Abstract: A nano-sized ultrathin film dielectric composed mainly of either a single nanosheet of titanium oxide obtained by exfoliating layer titanium oxide or a laminate thereof. Thus, there can be accomplished low-temperature production of a dielectric device that simultaneously realizes high dielectric constant and excellent insulating performance in nanoregions and reduces influences of substrate interface deterioration and nonstoichiometry.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2007Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Minoru Osada, Takayoshi Sasaki
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Publication number: 20110000699Abstract: A hermetic interconnect for medical devices is disclosed. In one embodiment, the interconnect includes platinum leads co-fired between alumina substrates to form a monolithic composite that is subsequently bonded into a titanium alloy flange. Both methodology for forming these interconnects as well as specific geometries and compositions are disclosed. Interconnects formed in this fashion enable significant reductions in overall size of the interconnect relative to the number of feedthrough leads as well as substantial improvements in robustness versus currently available technology.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: David Joseph Bealka, Christien Matthew Vaillancourt, Fred Michael Kimock, Emma Claire Gill
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Publication number: 20110000700Abstract: A method of connecting circuit boards capable of easily accomplishing the connection maintaining reliability. A method of connection comprising the steps of obtaining a laminated body of a first circuit board, an adhesive sheet and a second circuit board, and accomplishing electric conduction between the first circuit and the second circuit by applying heat and pressure to the laminated body of the first circuit board, the adhesive sheet and the second circuit board, wherein an end of the circuit formed on at least either the first circuit board or the second circuit board is terminated at a position separated away from an end of the substrate, and the adhesive of the adhesive sheet is partly arranged between the end of the substrate of the circuit board and the end of the circuit so as to be adhered to the opposing circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2007Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Yoshiaki Sato, Kohichiro Kawate, Tomihiro Hara, Noriko Kikuchi