Patents Issued in August 1, 2019
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Publication number: 20190234188Abstract: A perforation gun assembly comprising a plurality of guns with a box fitting at one end and a modified pin fitting at the distal end; the modified pin fitting further comprising an end cap secured to an internal charger carrier, aligning a plurality of shape charges with scallops in the gun casing; and having a pressure switch, which connects to an electrical connection point at the box end of a charger carrier in an adjacent gun. The end cap being captured between the pin of one gun and the internal edge of the mating gun to protect and channel blast force to the pressure switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: Sergio F. Goyeneche
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Publication number: 20190234189Abstract: A firing head assembly for use with a perforating gun is described. The firing head assembly includes a tubular housing, first and second pistons, and a compressible member arranged within a lumen of the tubular housing and positioned between the first and second pistons. According to an aspect, the assembly includes a plurality of upper locking arms and lower locking arms that engage with locking members formed in the tubular housing. The firing head assembly further includes upper and lower shear washers arranged at the second opening of the tubular body, in a sandwich type configuration with respect to the second piston. Pressures within the firing head assembly may be adjusted to activate the firing head assembly to either trigger an explosive reaction or to not trigger the explosive reaction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: DynaEnergetics GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Frank Haron Preiss
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Publication number: 20190234190Abstract: A geothermal heat recovery device includes a circulation flow path provided with a circulation pump, a heat medium pressurized by the circulation pump circulating through the circulation flow path in a hot liquid state; a heat exchanger installed underground and configured to heat the heat medium flowing through the circulation flow path with underground heat; a binary electricity generation device configured to recover, as electrical energy, thermal energy from the heat medium heated in the heat exchanger; a bypass path connected to the circulation flow path; and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a flow division ratio between a flow rate of the heat medium flowing into the heat exchanger and a flow rate of the heat medium bypassing the heat exchanger through the bypass path.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Kazuo TAKAHASHI, Shigeto ADACHI
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Publication number: 20190234191Abstract: A header with associated lubricator is for fluid handling at the wellhead of an oil and gas well where a plunger/lubricator lift system is deployed, and provides a novel compact lubricator with attached header which can replace a conventional wellhead flow-tee without modifying or moving other wellhead equipment to accommodate the new lubricator and header replacing the old flow-tee. A sub seal is provided at the header/lubricator attachment(s). The header with associated lubricator encloses a conduit with seals in the attachment interfaces between the header and lubricator or between the header and exit attachment means, where the conduit may also comprise a means of flow restriction through machined geometry or by retaining a reduced diameter or valve component through various means of attachment. The flow restrictor means may also be serviced via service access means provided in the header or lubricator exterior wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Scott Murdoch, Watcharin Suttipisetchart, Stephen Vetter, Leigh Durling
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Publication number: 20190234192Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for transferring a reciprocating movement from a machinery arranged at a surface to a device located downhole in a subterranean well, the apparatus comprising: a longitudinal hollow body an upper rod connected to the machinery in one end thereof and to an upper displacement body in another end thereof, a lower displacement body adapted to operate the device, the upper displacement body and the lower displacement body are in communication via a liquid in the longitudinal hollow body, and are movable within the longitudinal hollow body, and wherein the upper displacement body, the lower displacement body and the liquid are configured to reciprocate synchronously relative to the longitudinal hollow body. The invention further relates to a method of producing a wellbore fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: Gunnar Andersen
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Publication number: 20190234193Abstract: An assembly for pumping well fluid from a well includes a production conduit string having a polished bore receptacle. A coiled tubing segment with a power cable is suspended within the production conduit string. A motor, which is secured to the coiled tubing segment and electrically connected with the power cable, drives a pump. The pump discharge opens into a coiled tubing annulus between the coiled tubing segment and production conduit string. A gas separator has a heavier fluid outlet leading into the pump intake and a lighter fluid outlet leading into the production conduit string below the polished bore receptacle. A seal member extends between the gas separator and the pump in sealing engagement with the polished bore receptacle above the lighter fluid outlet and below the pump discharge.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLCInventor: Ahmed Fehri
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Publication number: 20190234194Abstract: A method and a system for pressurizing a reservoir volume including fluid in a formation with a parent well extending through the formation includes storing liquefied natural gas (LNG) at an on-site location of the parent well, de-liquefying the LNG to form natural gas at the on-site location, and injecting the natural gas into the parent well to pressurize the reservoir volume through the parent well.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Ronald G. DUSTERHOFT, Neil A. STEGENT, Enrique A. REYES, Doug W. WALSER
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Publication number: 20190234195Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for ranging operate to use a wireline active ranging system to initially determine a relative distance and relative direction from a first well (e.g., ranging well) to a second well (e.g., target well) and an EM azimuthal logging tool to maintain or adjust the distance from the target well while drilling the ranging well. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Hsu-Hsiang Wu, Burkay Donderici
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Publication number: 20190234196Abstract: A resistivity measuring tool used in a drillstring having a drill bit on a distal end for drilling a wellbore in a formation includes a tool body having a longitudinal axis, a transmitting antenna, and a receiving antenna. The receiving antenna includes an antenna body having a longer axis disposed longitudinally in the tool body, and a wire coil having a central axis disposed around the antenna body, wherein the wire coil central axis is substantially perpendicular to the longer axis of the antenna body, and wherein the wire coil is configured to generate a magnetic moment orthogonal to the tool body longitudinal axis. The transmitting antenna is configured to transmit electromagnetic energy into the formation and induce a voltage signal related to a parameter of the formation in the receiving antenna.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Well Resolutions TechnologyInventor: Tsili Wang
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Publication number: 20190234197Abstract: A drilling area network hub is located proximate to a drill rig and includes an uphole transceiver in bidirectional communication with a downhole transceiver by utilizing the drill string as an electrical conductor. Certain information is collected including rig-based and/or location information. At least one field report is generated based on the certain information to characterize at least one of an inground operation, an operational condition of the downhole transceiver, an operational condition of the uphole transceiver, and an operational condition of the drill rig. A drilling area network server receives the field report from the Internet at a remote location and can generate a custom report and/or recommended actions based on field data. Region specific parameters can be applied to the operation of a drilling system. The drilling area network hub can transfer data logs to the remote location according to assigned priorities.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: Thomas J. Hall
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Publication number: 20190234198Abstract: An electro acoustic technology (EAT) based micro seismic sensor and tiltmeter system and method is described for the measurement of minute deformations in downhole formations caused by hydraulic fracturing or other sources of pore pressure changes. A number of sensor arrays are described that are installed in clamp-on EAT devices installed in tool wells located in close proximity to hydraulically fractured wells.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Mikko Jaaskelainen, Brian Vandellyn Park, Nicholas Clive Spencer Wheeler, Eric James Davis, Norman Raymond Warpinski
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Publication number: 20190234199Abstract: A locator device and methods of use are disclosed. The locator device includes a first locating system configured to generate to sense an electromagnetic field emanating from a sonde associated with a drill head, and a second locating system including a global positioning system. The locator device includes a display on the locating system configured to display a map of the area in which the locator device resides based on a location detected by the global positioning system. The locator device also includes control electronics configured to, upon receipt of an input from a user, record location data in a memory associated with the locator device for use by a horizontal directional drilling control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: VERMEER MANUFACTURING COMPANYInventors: Scott Alan REMPE, Tony BRIGGS, David HANSON, Keith SJOSTROM, Nathan COPELAND, Hans KELPE, Tod MICHAEL, Chad VAN SOELEN
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Publication number: 20190234200Abstract: Tracing subterranean fluid flow includes providing a first polymeric tracer to a first injector, collecting a first aqueous sample from a first producer, and assessing the presence of the first polymeric tracer in the first aqueous sample. The first polymeric tracer includes a first polymer formed from at least a first monomer. The presence of the first polymeric tracer in the first aqueous sample is assessed by removing water from the first aqueous sample to yield a first dehydrated sample. pyrolyzing the first dehydrated sample to yield a first gaseous sample, and assessing the presence of a pyrolization product of the first polymer in the first gaseous sample. The presence of the pyrolization product of the first polymer in the first gaseous sample is indicative of the presence of a first subterranean flow pathway between the first injector location and the first producer location.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventor: Jason R. Cox
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Publication number: 20190234201Abstract: A set of instructions stored on at least one non-transitory computer readable medium running on a computer system having at least one processor. The set of instructions extract outputs from sensors of a measurement while drilling system of a drilling rig; enable a transmitter to transmit a first data stream having at least one data series including drilling data, the first data stream having an interruptible portion encompassing at least a portion of the drilling data; detect a trigger event during transmission of the first data stream; and cease transmission of the first data stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Aubrey Holt, Michael Brownlow, Greg Hill
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Publication number: 20190234202Abstract: A system for tracking a position on a rig site may include a plurality of static beacons of defined positions on the rig site configured to transmit reference signals at a selected triggering time for transmission; at least one moveable receiver at a first location on the rig site configured to receive the reference signals from the plurality of static beacons, determine the reception time of signal, and transmit reception information to a master node via a communication channel; wherein the master node is at a location on the rig site with a reference base time, wherein the master node receives the defined positions and reference times of the plurality of static beacons, and wherein the system is configured to, based on the reception information, determine signal travel times between the static beacons and the at least one moveable receiver, determine the distances between the static beacon and the at least one moveable receiver based on a travel time of the reference signals, and determine a position of theType: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Jacques ORBAN, Vishwanathan PARMESHWAR, Shunfeng ZHENG
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Publication number: 20190234203Abstract: Systems and methods for terahertz modulation in a terahertz frequency band from about 0.1 terahertz to about 10 terahertz propagating in a wellbore intersecting a subterranean earth formation. A transmitter generates the EM radiation in the terahertz frequency band. A modulator located in the wellbore receives the EM radiation and generates an amplitude modulated signal with the EM radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Ramachandhran BALASUBRAMANIAN, Neal Gregory SKINNER, John Laureto MAIDA, Wolfgang Hartmut NITSCHE, Satyan Gopal BHONGALE
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Publication number: 20190234204Abstract: Extracting a core sample from within a wellbore is optimized based on information extracted from acoustic signals that are generated downhole. The acoustic signals provide an indication of the formation being cored, which is used to obtain or adjust designated coring operating parameters for accomplishing an efficient and effective coring procedure. Coring operating parameters that are adjusted include weight on bit and bit rotational speed. Optimizing coring operating parameters reduces wear on the bit and produces samples with less fractures. Generating acoustic signals is done by the operation of coring itself, or contacting the formation with a coring bit. Contacting includes impacting the coring bit radially against the wellbore's sidewall, or moving the bit laterally after coring operations have initiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLCInventors: Dee Adedotun Moronkeji, Otto Fanini
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Publication number: 20190234205Abstract: A method for performing a formation-related physical action includes: receiving image data of a wall of a borehole penetrating a formation, the image data having image data of fractures intersecting the wall of the borehole; and defining a volume surrounding the borehole. The method also includes determining a surface area of each fracture intersecting the volume at each defined depth in a plurality of depths and calculating a fracture density for each defined depth based on the surface area of each fracture intersecting the volume at each defined depth in a plurality of depths and a size of the volume. The method further includes performing the formation-related physical action based on the fracture density for each defined depth using apparatus configured to perform the formation-related physical action.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventor: Julio Roberto Arro
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Publication number: 20190234206Abstract: The invention relates to a pore pressure monitoring device, for use in geotechnical engineering, adapted to be deployed underground for monitoring pore-water pressure in the ground, comprising a pressure sensor cavity (2) and a pressure sensor means (4), for sensing a fluid (6) pressure of a fluid in the sensor cavity (2), further comprising a degassing means (10), comprising a gas discharge means (14) and a gas-water filter means (12), wherein the gas-water filter means (12) is adapted for providing a route for gas (8) to escape from the fluid (6) in the sensor cavity (2), towards the gas discharge means (14) for discharging the filtered gas (8) to the atmosphere. The invention also relates to a method for monitoring pore-water pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Fugro N.V.Inventor: Franciscus Antonius Nicolaas HOGERVORST
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Publication number: 20190234207Abstract: A method includes receiving sensor data characterizing one or more properties of a first formation undergoing drilling; determining, based on the received sensor data and a plurality of clustered historical data, an identity of the first formation; determining, based on one or more of the identity of the first formation and a target rate of penetration, a target operating parameter of a drill configured to penetrate the first formation, the target operating parameter configured to achieve the target rate of penetration of the drill through the first formation; and varying the operation of the drill based on the target operating parameter. Related apparatus, systems, articles, and techniques are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Arun Karthi Subramaniyan, Haiming Zhao, Imran Younus, Shourya Otta, Fabio Nonato de Paula, Mahadevan Balasubramaniam
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Publication number: 20190234208Abstract: A system and method to reduce a whirl effect on a rotation of a drill string with an AC induction motor mechanically coupled to a rotary drilling system and configured to drive the rotary drilling system and the drill string attached thereto. Additionally, the system includes an electronic inverter to generate supplied power for the AC induction motor and a controller configured to drive the operation of the electronic inverter to impose a virtual drive characteristic relating a torque output of the motor with speed of the motor, determine a desired nominal operating point, and determine presence of whirl in the drill string from torque of the rotary drilling system and speed of the drill string.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: Jacques Orban
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Publication number: 20190234209Abstract: A downhole production system includes an electric submersible pump (ESP) configured to be positioned within a wellbore. A measurement device is positioned upstream of an ESP suction. The measurement device is fluidically coupled to the suction of the ESP. The measurement device is configured to measure a water-cut of a production fluid flowing into the ESP. The measurement device includes a first flow section configured to receive a fluid flow, a second flow section positioned downstream of the first flow section which is fluidically coupled to the first flow section and at an angle from the first section, a first differential pressure sub-system positioned within the first flow section and a second differential pressure sub-system positioned within the second flow section, downstream of the first differential pressure sub-system. A packer is positioned uphole of a fluid inlet of the measurement device and is configured to direct fluid into the measurement device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Chidirim Enoch Ejim, Jinjiang Xiao
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Publication number: 20190234210Abstract: An apparatus for estimating an ambient environment at which inorganic scale will form in a downhole fluid includes a stress chamber disposed in a borehole in a production zone at a location within a specified range of maximum pressure and configured to receive a sample of the fluid from the production zone and to apply an ambient condition to the sample that causes the formation of inorganic scale. An inorganic scale sensor is configured to sense formation of inorganic scale within the chamber and an ambient environment sensor is configured to sense an ambient environment within the chamber at which the formation of inorganic scale occurs. The apparatus further includes a processor configured to receive measurement data from the inorganic scale sensor and the ambient environment sensor and to identify the ambient environment at which the formation of inorganic scale occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Aurelie Duchene, Alessandro De Barros, Hartley Downs, Eduardo Motta, Potiani Maciel, Ashwin Chandran, Thomas Scott, Rocco DiFoggio, Tudor Ionescu, Eric Donzier
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Publication number: 20190234211Abstract: A formation fluid sampling module including a body having an interior, a first probe including a first end arranged in the interior and a second end exposed at the outer surface, and a second probe including a first end section arranged in the interior and a second end exposed at the outer surface. The second end extends radially outwardly of and about the second end of the first probe. A pump is arranged in the interior. The pump includes a first pumping chamber including a first inlet fluidically connected to the first end, a second pumping chamber including a second inlet fluidically connected to the first end section and a piston operatively associated with each of the first pumping chamber and the second pumping chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLCInventors: Christian Reding, Russell McEacharn
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Publication number: 20190234212Abstract: An improved diamond coated bit tip insert for a unitary bit/holder, tool, and/or pick for road milling operations that includes a body including a tip and a base subjacent to the tip. The tip of the bit tip insert includes a substrate and an overlay on an outer surface of the substrate. The base of the bit tip insert includes a tapered sidewall or a cylindrical sidewall, the tapered sidewall providing a greater concentration of force applied at an interface of the overlay and the substrate of the tip during a high pressure high temperature (HPHT) process than when using the cylindrical sidewall and the high pressure, high temperature process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: The Sollami CompanyInventor: Phillip Sollami
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Publication number: 20190234213Abstract: A bit tip insert on a bit/holder, tool, and/or pick for road milling operations that includes a body including a tip and a base subjacent the tip The bit tip insert also includes at least one heat transfer bore extending from a distal end and/or bottom of the body to a bore termination disposed within the base and/or the tip of the bit tip insert. The at least one bore of the bit tip insert is adapted to allow inward contraction when the overlay transfers heat into the base during operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: The Sollami CompanyInventor: Phillip Sollami
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Publication number: 20190234214Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the automated picking up and placing of a segment forming the lining of a tunnel, intended to be coupled to a tunnel-boring machine (1) provided with a segment erector (2), comprising: —a controller designed to communicate with an automated system of the tunnel boring machine, suitable for controlling the actuation of the erector; and —a three-dimensional vision system comprising at least four laser profilometers; the controller is designed to receive a segment positioning plan and to determine, from the analysis data of the three-dimensional vision system, the measurement data of the erector sensors and the segment positioning plan, an erector trajectory for positioning the segment (V) to be placed in alignment with a segment and/or ring (A) of segments already placed, and to communicate movement commands to the automated system of the tunnel boring machine, for actuating the erector to pick up the segment to be placed and move it according to the above trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicants: BOUYGUES TRAVAUX PUBLICS, BOUYGUES TRAVAUX PUBLICSInventors: Lucas MOUTON, Nicolas DEMUYNCK
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Publication number: 20190234215Abstract: A rotary piston and cylinder device (1) comprising: a rotor (2), comprising a rotor surface (2a), a piston (5) which extends from the rotor surface, a stator (4), a rotatable shutter (3), the rotor surface and the stator together defining an annular chamber, and the piston arranged to rotate, through the annular chamber, wherein when the chamber is viewed in axial cross-section, substantially a single surface of the stator in part defines the chamber (100).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: Stephen Francis LINDSEY
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Publication number: 20190234216Abstract: A balancing weight mountable within a balance hole of a rotary component includes a cylindrical body having a desired weight. An opening is formed in a portion of the body to define a hollow passageway and a mechanism couples the cylindrical body within an interior of the balance hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Vishnu M. Sishtla, Jing Chen
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Publication number: 20190234217Abstract: In a fan blade of a turbofan engine and a method for determining a shape of the fan blade, a shape from a blade root of the fan blade up to a predetermined position in a span direction of the fan blade is same as a shape from a blade root of an original fan blade up to a predetermined position in a span direction of the original fan blade, and a shape from the predetermined position in the span direction of the fan blade up to a blade tip thereof is a shape formed by rotating, only by a predetermined angle in a direction opposite to a direction of rotation of the fan blade with a rotating shaft as a center, each of blade elements present from the predetermined position in the span direction of the original fan blade up to a blade tip thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: Yu Narita
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Publication number: 20190234218Abstract: Components for gas turbine engines are provided. The components include an airfoil extending between a first end and a second end and from a leading edge to a trailing edge. The airfoil has a pressure side and a suction side. The airfoil has a non-leading edge stagnation line that transitions from a location along a leading edge surface of the airfoil at the first end to a location on the airfoil on the pressure side of the airfoil at the second end. A leading edge feed cavity is located in the leading edge of the airfoil and extending between the first end and the second end of the airfoil. A stagnation impingement cavity is formed extending along a surface of the airfoil that aligns with the non-leading edge stagnation line.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley, Dominic J. Mongillo, JR.
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Publication number: 20190234219Abstract: A shroud segment (100) for disposition on a blade of a turbomachine is provided, in particular a gas turbine, the shroud segment having a stiffening structure raised above a shroud segment surface (15), the stiffening structure including at least three interconnected ribs (3, 5, 7), and a first end portion of the ribs (3, 5, 7) being connected to an upstream sealing tip (11) of the shroud segment (100), and a second end portion of these ribs (3, 5, 7) being connected to a downstream sealing tip (13) of the shroud segment (100). The angles (W1, W2, W3) between the direction of the axis of rotation (a) of the blade and the longitudinal orientations (21, 23, 25) of the ribs (3, 5, 7), as viewed in the direction of flow (9) through the turbomachine, are between zero degrees and eighty degrees. The present invention also relates to a blade (200) of a turbomachine.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Martin PERNLEITNER, Klaus WITTIG, Lutz FRIEDRICH
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Publication number: 20190234220Abstract: A method for producing a turbine blade includes forming an undercoat on a surface of a base material of a turbine blade, which is formed of a Ni-based alloy material, the undercoat being formed of a metallic material having a higher oxidation-resisting property than that of the base material, performing diffusing treatment for heating the base material having the undercoat formed thereon and diffusing a part of the undercoat on the base material side, and forming a topcoat on a surface of the undercoat after the diffusing treatment is performed, the topcoat being formed of a material having a lower thermal conductivity than that of the base material and the undercoat.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Daisuke YOSHIDA, Taiji TORIGOE, Masaki TANEIKE, Naotoshi OKAYA, Yoshiyuki INOUE
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Publication number: 20190234221Abstract: A gas turbine and nozzle system is provided that includes a radial inflow turbine rotor and a volute providing a flow path to deliver a pressurized gas to a circumference of the radial turbine rotor. The volute incorporates a shape which substantially conforms to a radial turbine shroud contour. The volute includes at least first and second parts. A mating surface between the first and second parts is substantially aligned with a direction of pressurized gas flow in the volute.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: Matthew Stephen Baldwin
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Publication number: 20190234222Abstract: A stator vane arrangement may comprise a first shroud comprising a first side surface and a second side surface, a slot disposed in the first shroud, the slot at least partially defined by the first side surface and the second side surface, a stator vane extending at least partially through the slot, wherein the first side surface and the second side surface are disposed on opposite sides of the slot, and the first side surface is oriented at a first non-zero angle with respect to a radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Colin G. Amadon, Nicholas Hunnewell
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Publication number: 20190234223Abstract: An axial flow rotating machine has: a rotor with a plurality of rotor blades; a stator with a plurality of stator blades; an axial flow rotating portion defined by the rotor and the stator; and a diffuser connected to the axial flow rotating portion on a downstream side of the axial flow rotating portion. A final blade portion inner-circumferential inner wall, which is a portion of an inner-circumferential inner wall of the axial flow rotating portion, is defined such that a diameter thereof at a trailing edge position of a final blade is smaller than the diameter at a leading edge position of the final blade. In addition, a diameter of all or a portion of a diffuser inner-circumferential inner wall decreases in a direction of the downstream side in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Eisaku ITO, Koichiro IIDA, Kentaro AKIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190234224Abstract: A turbomachine assembly and, in particular, a low-pressure compressor of an aircraft turbojet engine includes an annular row of upstream vanes with trailing edges extending radially from an upstream support; an annular row of downstream vanes with leading edges axially facing the trailing edges and extending radially from a downstream support; an annular passageway delimited by the upstream support and the downstream support. The downstream support has a profile with: an upstream portion delimiting the annular passageway forming an annular slide, a downstream portion axially at the level of downstream vanes, and a connecting arc connecting the upstream portion to the downstream portion. The connecting arc is arranged downstream of the leading edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS SAInventors: Rémy Princivalle, Enrique Penalver Castro, Matthieu Janssens
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Publication number: 20190234225Abstract: The present invention relates to a module for a turbomachine, having a guide vane arrangement and a seal carrier, which is arranged, with reference to a longitudinal axis of the module, radially inside an inner platform of the guide vane arrangement, wherein, in each case with reference to the longitudinal axis of the module, when considered in an axial section, the seal carrier has a radially extending seal carrier wall and a sealing web extending axially away from it, which forms a labyrinth seal together with the inner platform of the guide vane arrangement, wherein the seal carrier wall and the sealing web are made up in one piece with each other, i.e., they are built up additively together.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: MTU Aero Engines AGInventor: Christoph Lauer
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Publication number: 20190234226Abstract: A circumferential seal for a rotating component comprising a static seal part and a rotating seal part having a common rotational axis. The rotating seal part comprises a fin seal, wherein the fin seal comprises a protective coating. A first portion of the fin seal has a first sealing gap to the static seal part and a second portion of the fin seal has a second sealing gap to the static seal part. The first sealing gap has a greater radial dimension than the second sealing gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventor: Michael P. KEENAN
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Publication number: 20190234227Abstract: A system for powering instrumentation of a generator wirelessly via magnetic induction is provided. The system includes a generator having a power generating source disposed within its casing to convert the electromagnetic energy produced by the generator into electrical energy that may be stored in an energy storage device. This stored energy may then be utilized by at least one sensing component within the generator casing and configured to measure and collect operational data related to the generator. A method for powering a wireless sensor within a generator via magnetic induction is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: Joshua S. McConkey
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Publication number: 20190234228Abstract: An assembly of a shaft and a rotor disk comprises a shaft configured to rotate at a first angular speed S1 about a shaft rotational axis. A bladed rotor includes a disk adapted to support blades, the disk having a rotor rotational axis, the disk being integrally and monolithically formed with at least one rotor gear, the rotor gear being concentric with the disk about the rotor rotational axis. A gear train includes a shaft gear fixed to the shaft, the gear train having at least one gear meshed with the rotor gear for imparting a rotation to the bladed rotor at angular speed S2, wherein the angular speed S1?the angular speed S2.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Enzo MACCHIA, Sean DOWNARD, Daniel ALECU, George GUGLIELMIN
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Publication number: 20190234229Abstract: An actuator actuates a movable part of a turbocharger including a turbine housing for accommodating a turbine driven by exhaust, and a compressor housing for accommodating a compressor which is disposed on the same axis as the turbine and which pressure-feeds intake air. The actuator has a rod of which one end side is coupled by a link to the movable part, a case having a bearing part that slidably and axially supports the other end side of the rod, a boot which covers the sliding part of the rod and the bearing part and of which at least part of the outer peripheral surface faces the outer peripheral surface of the turbine housing, and a thermal shield member disposed between the turbine housing and the boot.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventor: Iori KURATA
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Publication number: 20190234230Abstract: The present disclosure has an object to provide a valve device for a turbine in which valve seats of a plurality of valves can be reliably secured to a casing, a turbine including the valve device, and a method for producing the valve device and the turbine. A stop valve device used in a steam turbine includes: a plurality of valves arranged in a chamber into which steam flows; a casing in which the chamber and a plurality of steam channels are formed; and a pressure receiving plate configured to receive pressure of the steam in the chamber to hold two or more valve seats of the two or more valves on the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventor: Kenichi Nishiyama
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Publication number: 20190234231Abstract: A cooling system for a gas turbine engine comprises a passage capable of receiving cooling air, a compartment radially adjacent thereto and axially aligned therewith, an opening therebetween, a valve within the opening, and a heat exchanger received in the compartment. The valve is moveable between a maximum open position and a minimum open position for increasing or decreasing airflow from the passage into the compartment. At the valve minimum open position, a leakage path is provided between the passage and the compartment, whereby cooling air is capable of passing from the passage to the compartment and toward the heat exchanger at all valve positions. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: JinQuan Xu
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Publication number: 20190234232Abstract: The present invention concerns a method (200) for managing a breakdown of a starter valve of a starting circuit of an aircraft turbine engine, comprising the following steps: —starting (203) the turbine engine, a state-change command being sent to the starter valve in order for it to open;—increasing (204) the engine speed of the turbine engine to a predefined first threshold,—during said increase (204) in engine speed,—if a difference in position has been detected (201) between the position sensors before the step of starting the turbine engine or if a difference in position is detected (205) between said position sensors, determining (207) the position sensor that has switched between the closed position and the open position, the other position sensor having remained in the open or closed position;—when the first threshold is reached, storing (209) the position sensor that has switched between the closed position and the open position as healthy and the position sensor that has remained in the open or closType: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Adel Cedric Abir WIDEMANN, David Julien BOYER
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Publication number: 20190234233Abstract: A system and method for providing bleed air compensation for a continuous power assurance analysis of a gas turbine engine includes estimating bleed air flow rate from the gas turbine engine, estimating a shift in power turbine inlet temperature based on the estimated bleed air flow rate, and applying the estimated shift in power turbine inlet temperature to the continuous power assurance analysis of the gas turbine engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Richard Ling, Kevin Moeckly, Alfred E. Carstens
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Publication number: 20190234234Abstract: An exemplary gas turbine engine includes a turbine section positioned about an engine central longitudinal axis. The turbine section includes a component with a platform providing a lip, a rail extending radially from the platform and at an axial location spaced from an outer axial extension of the lip. An inner face of the rail and a surface of the platform at least partially provide a cavity. At least one opening extends from the inner face to an outer face of the rail opposite the inner face to provide fluid communication from the cavity to the lip.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Corey D. Anderson, Brandon W. Spangler
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Publication number: 20190234235Abstract: A vane section of a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes a platform and an airfoil extending outwardly from the platform and having an internal channel communicating with an opening in the platform. A rail extends inwardly from the platform, such that a surface of the platform opposite the airfoil and the rail at least partially define a platform cavity. A flow diverter extends inwardly of the platform within the platform cavity and defines a diverter cavity, an inlet configured to receive fluid flowing in a first direction from the opening in the platform to the diverter cavity, and an outlet configured to expel fluid from the diverter cavity to the platform cavity in a second direction different from the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Corey D. Anderson, Brandon W. Spangler
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Publication number: 20190234236Abstract: A component for a gas turbine engine according to example of the present disclosure includes a body that has an airfoil extending between a radially inner platform and a radially outer platform, and that has an internal cavity within the airfoil. A baffle is disposed within the internal cavity. The baffle defines first and second baffle cavities that are separated by a baffle dividing wall extending between the radially inner platform and the radially outer platform. An impingement plate is spaced apart from one of the radially inner and outer platforms, includes a first opening that provides fluid communication between a first chamber and the first baffle cavity, and includes a plurality of second openings that are smaller than the first opening and provide fluid communication between the first chamber and the second baffle cavity via a second chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Brandon W. Spangler, Corey D. Anderson
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Publication number: 20190234237Abstract: A turbocharge includes: a compressor wheel; a turbine wheel configured to rotate with the compressor wheel; a turbine housing disposed so as to cover the turbine wheel; a bearing supporting a rotational shaft of the turbine wheel rotatably; and a bearing housing accommodating the bearing. One of the turbine housing or the bearing housing includes a fin portion protruding toward the other one of the turbine housing or the bearing housing so as to extend along an axial direction of the rotational shaft, and, between the turbine housing and the bearing housing, a cavity is formed on each side of the fin portion with respect to a radial direction of the rotational shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Tsuyoshi KITAMURA, Seiichi IBARAKI, Toyotaka YOSHIDA, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Motoki EBISU