Patents Issued in January 9, 2024
  • Patent number: 11866976
    Abstract: A gate hinge pin and strap assembly for attachment to a wooden post for supporting a gate including a J-bolt or threaded L-bolt with a metal strap affixed to the bolt between the threads and cylindrical neck portion. A bendable metal strap extends on each side of the J-bolt or threaded L-bolt. The L-shaped rod is threaded into the post until the metal strap contacts the post. Then each bolt of the metal bracket is bent around the post and screws or lag bolts are threaded through the holes and into the post to help secure the hinge to the post and to provide added support for the gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Bobby G. Davis
  • Patent number: 11866977
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and devices for controlling the closing of a door. A head unit is to be installed in a doorjamb, comprising a chamber filled at least in part with a shear thickening fluid. A piston is connected to a cap and configured to exert pressure against the shear thickening fluid in response to a force applied to the cap. The systems and devices provide an adjustable design that resists door slamming and aggressive closure, serving as a safety device as well as noise, damage and pet control around doors (preventing closure if desired). An install kit provides exact location, depth control and guide to place over the head unit to tap it into place with a hammer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MOSHUN, LLC
    Inventor: Timothy John Boundy
  • Patent number: 11866978
    Abstract: A door swing control device comprises a bracket affixed to a door, a pivoting element pivotably affixed to the bracket, and a swinging catch mechanism mounted directly or indirectly to the structure. The pivoting element comprises a finger extending therefrom and is engaged with the bracket to limit a range of movement of the pivoting element relative to the bracket. The finger is engageable with the swinging catch mechanism to limit a range of movement of the pivoting element relative to the swinging catch mechanism and thereby selectively limiting a range of movement of the bracket relative to the swinging catch mechanism. When the finger of the pivoting element is engaged with the swinging catch mechanism, the door is held in the first open position. When the finger of the pivoting element is disengaged from the swinging catch mechanism, the door can swing between the first and second open positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Questar Gas Company
    Inventors: Carter Worthen, Bryan Yap, Cameron Andersen, Jessica Rule, Todd Allen Bayliff
  • Patent number: 11866979
    Abstract: A window lift system including a first guide rail including a first stop, a second guide rail which has a second stop in an upper end region, a first slider guided on the first guide rail, a second slider guided on the second guide rail, cable drum, and a drive cable driven by means of the cable drum and coupled to the sliders and extending through a Bowden cable sheath between the upper end region of the second guide rail and a lower end region of the first guide rail. The sliders are movable by the drive cable along the guide rails into a stop position in which the second slider lies against the second stop and the first slider is spaced apart from the first stop by a predefined distance ranging between 0.4 percent and 1.2 percent of the length of the Bowden cable sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Trautmann, Norman Hümmer, Michael Jahn
  • Patent number: 11866980
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet including an outer case forming an external appearance and a storage compartment, a refrigerator door coupled to the cabinet to open or close the storage compartment, an installation bracket coupled to the outer case inside the outer case, a door opening device installed in the installation bracket outside the outer case and including a push member for opening or closing the refrigerator door, and a buffer member disposed a coupling portion between the door opening device and the installation bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jihyun Im, Dongjeong Kim, Heejun Lee
  • Patent number: 11866981
    Abstract: An actuation system for passenger seating has a first actuating member for actuating a door from an open state to a closed state, and a second actuating assembly for actuating the door from the closed state to the open state. The first actuating member may be a spring configured to allow movement of the door from the closed state to the open state. The second actuating assembly is power-operated. The actuation system allows the door to be opened and closed automatically by the user while still being operable manually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Thompson Aero Seating Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan McGreevy, Thomas Trail
  • Patent number: 11866982
    Abstract: A cooker with a door includes: a proximity sensor configured to detect presence or absence of an object in proximity to the cooker; and a door opening controller configured to control the door to open and close on a detection signal from the proximity sensor, wherein the door opening controller opens the door when receiving the detection signal from the proximity sensor twice or more within a predetermined time period, the detection signal indicating the presence of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Tanaka, Katsumi Ishifuro, Toshiro Meiji, Junichi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11866983
    Abstract: A vehicular door control system responsive to object detection includes a radar unit disposed at a vehicle that has a field of sensing adjacent to and exterior a door of the vehicle and that transmits radar signals and receives reflected radar signals representative of an object. A scanning actuator coupled to the radar unit moves the radar unit relative to the door to create a variation between the transmitted radar signals and the reflected radar signals. An electronic control unit (ECU) operates the radar unit to transmit the radar signals. While the radar unit is transmitting the radar signals and receiving the reflected radar signals, the ECU operates the scanning actuator to move the radar unit relative to the door. The ECU processes the received reflected radar signals to determine presence of the object and operates an electrically powered actuator coupled to the door to open and close the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt M. Schatz, Ming Wang, Adam Bott
  • Patent number: 11866984
    Abstract: A system for contactless operation of an aircraft lavatory door comprises a controller operatively connected to control an actuator for opening and closing a lavatory door. A gesture sensing system is operatively connected to the controller for sending gesture data to the controller indicative of a user gesturing for the actuator to actuate. A mmWave radar sensing system is operatively connected to the controller to indicate user presence. The controller includes machine readable instructions configured to verify gesture input from the gesture sensing system using input from the mmWave radar sensing system before controlling the actuator to open or close the lavatory door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: Nagaraju Sripathi, Rajesh Vasudevan Nair, Kannan Chidambaram Seetharaman
  • Patent number: 11866985
    Abstract: An assembly for covering an agricultural receiving unit is provided. The assembly may include a covering body configured to, in a first position, extend over an opening of the agricultural receiving unit to prevent access to the opening. The assembly may also include an actuation assembly configured to move the covering body from the first position to a second position. In the second position, the covering body is configured to permit access to the opening of the agricultural receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: AUXILIUM AG LLC
    Inventors: Chad W. Hastad, Anthony Von Ohlen
  • Patent number: 11866986
    Abstract: A damper, in particular for fittings for furniture or household appliances, has a housing in which a piston connected to a piston rod is guided in a linearly displaceable manner in an interior space. At least one flow channel is formed on or in the piston, through which the flow passes when the piston is displaced. A volume-compensation element is provided in the housing, which compensates for a volume which is displaced or released when a part of the piston rod is pushed into or pulled out of the housing, being displaceably mounted in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DRUCK— UND SPRITZGUSSWERK HETTICH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Waschk
  • Patent number: 11866987
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a redundant boltwork mechanism comprises a master lock plate and a sublock plate slidably coupled to the master lock plate. A first lock is coupled to the mater lock plate and a second lock is coupled to the sublock plate. A cross slide with a plurality of bolts and at least one other slide are coupled to the safe door such that turning that handle of the safe door causes movement of the cross slide and at least one other slide from a first position to a second position, allowing the safe door to be opened. The safe door can be unlocked by unlocking either the first lock or the second lock, which causes the second lock tongue to retract from blocking the at least one slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Shanghai Baolei Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xu Zhenyi
  • Patent number: 11866988
    Abstract: The present gate includes a barrier frame and a gate in the barrier frame. The gate is opened by inserting a foot into a foot opening in the gate, which action compresses springs disposed about pivot pins between the gate and the barrier frame and draws an extended latch downwardly and out of a latch receiver that is bottomless, which action unlatches and frees the gate from the barrier frame such that the gate can be swung open. Downward travel of the gate is minimized until a foot pushes a pivoting stop out of the way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Carlson Pet Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Flannery, Brian G. Linehan, Elizabeth R. Volk
  • Patent number: 11866989
    Abstract: A novel and useful frame less supplemental window for fenestration suitable for use with existing windows. The supplemental window, in one embodiment, comprises plastic sheet material with bullnose edging around it. Corner braces add rigidity and strength to corners in several embodiments. An attachment mechanism secured either to the sheet material or the bullnose edge functions to fasten and/or seal the supplemental window to an existing window. The bullnose edging functions to substantially enclose (i.e. trap) a volume of air between the window pane and the plastic sheet material. The supplemental window is configured such that the layer of trapped air is of an optimum thickness within a preferred range of 0.15 to 0.75 inches to maximize thermal insulation properties of the supplemental window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: WEXENERGY LLC
    Inventor: Ronald M. Wexler
  • Patent number: 11866990
    Abstract: A corner bracket for a window blind frame, the corner bracket including a central body portion and extending from the central body portion a first connector and a second connector, wherein the second connector is angled relative to the first connector; each connector includes a locating arm, a friction plate and a stop surface; wherein each friction plate defines a pair of opposed surfaces and each surface carries thereon a respective outwardly projecting deformable rib; and wherein each locating arm further includes at least one further outwardly projecting deformable rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LOUVER-LITE LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Greening, Antony Barnes
  • Patent number: 11866991
    Abstract: Implementations of detachable door systems may include: a main panel, an upper panel, and a connection mechanism by which an upper side of the main panel hingedly couples to the upper panel. The connection mechanism may include a hinge locking system with a fixed open position and a closed position and with a fixed bracket secured to the main panel, the fixed bracket hingedly coupled to a non-fixed bracket that is secured to the upper panel. A locking pin may be configured to engage in a first pair of slots in the fixed bracket corresponding with the fixed open position and configured to engage in a second pair of slots in the fixed bracket corresponding with the closed position. A removable fastener may be included to prevent the locking pin from engaging in the second pair of slots corresponding with the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Ricardo Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11866992
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a safety blind that operates without a cord. More specifically, there is no danger of safety accidents because a lifting cord inserted into a fabric tube of a leather cord is not exposed to the outside, the lifting and tilting operation of an entire slat can be easily and simply performed by operating a lower slat, and a driving unit can be applied to Venetian blinds, roll blinds, and various blinds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Jae-Suk Kwak
  • Patent number: 11866993
    Abstract: A hem bar assembly that secures to a shade material of a roller shade comprising first and second hem bar portions each including an inner face having a first channel, a second channel, and third channel located between the first and second channels. The hem bar assembly further comprises at least one tubular spline that wedges and retains the shade material within one of the first channel and the second channel of one of the first and second hem bar portions. The hem bar assembly further comprises a longitudinal retaining clip having at least a pair of oppositely disposed hooked arms outwardly extending therefrom, wherein each hooked arm is adapted to enter and clip to one of the third channels in a respective first and second hem bar portions to attach the first hem bar portion to the second hem bar portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Fang Lin
  • Patent number: 11866994
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns cable-covering tube assembly for a roller blind actuation cable, comprising a first cable-covering tube defining a cable-receiving cavity; and at least one tube connector extending at least partially in the cable-receiving cavity and comprising a cable-mounting portion couplable to the free end portion of the roller blind actuation cable; and a coupling portion couplable to the coupling portion of a similar tube connector. It also concerns a cable-covering tube system and a roller blind actuation assembly comprising first and second roller blind-operating systems having each a driving assembly and a unidirectional angular coupler, and a biasing member operatively coupling the driving assemblies and extending between their respective unidirectional angular couplers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, LTD
    Inventors: Alain Francoeur, Augustin Archambault
  • Patent number: 11866995
    Abstract: A ladder having a right box rail having an outer web with an outer opening and an inner web with an inner opening. The ladder having a left box rail in parallel and spaced relation with the right box rail. The ladder comprises a hollow collar disposed in between the inner opening of the inner web and the outer opening of the outer web. The collar having a stem having a plurality of segments. The segments separated by slots. The ladder having a first rung attached to the right and left box rails. The first rung having a right end that extends through the outer opening, the collar and the inner opening. A method for using a ladder by a user. A method for forming a ladder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Werner Co.
    Inventor: Thomas W. Parker
  • Patent number: 11866996
    Abstract: During rescue operations, rescue equipment/objects should be secured in a way as to prevent skidding/slippage and/or rolling/sliding. An emergency multi-use tool disclosed and claimed herein satisfies this function with an anti-skid tread on the bottom surface to prevent skidding/slippage and/or rolling/sliding of ground ladders and vehicles on uneven, slippery, and loose terrain. The emergency multi-use tool includes a wedge-shaped body defining an inclined, stepped, top surface and a bottom surface, the top surface defining a longitudinal groove therein and the bottom surface defining an anti-slip tread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin S. Horton, Ryan M. King, Amos Michael Horton
  • Patent number: 11866997
    Abstract: A rotary percussive hydraulic drill comprises a body; a shank having female coupling splines and male coupling splines; a striking piston configured to strike the shank; a rotation drive device configured to drive the shank in rotation; a front abutment surface against which the shank is configured to come into abutment. The shank has an annular bearing flange which is provided on an outer surface of the shank and which has an annular bearing surface configured to come into abutment against the front abutment surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MONTABERT
    Inventors: Michel Escolle, Gilbert Chervin
  • Patent number: 11866998
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a system including a tool drill string having a downhole device is disclosed. The downhole device includes a memory storing instructions and a downhole processor configured to execute the instructions to operate in a first transmission mode by default. The downhole processor is communicatively coupled to an uphole processor via the first transmission mode. The downhole processor is further to transmit, via a second transmission mode, a message to the uphole processor, determine whether a response is received, via the second transmission mode, from the uphole processor, and responsive to determining the response is received from the uphole processor, switch from the first transmission mode to the second transmission mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: ERDOS MILLER, INC., DIAMOND OILFIELD RENTALS, LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth Miller, David Erdos, Abraham Erdos
  • Patent number: 11866999
    Abstract: A cutting roller has an axle (2), on which a cutting ring (4) is rotatably guided by a bearing device (10, 12). The bearing device is sealed against the environment by a sealing device (28, 30). By a compensating device (40), any differential pressure between the bearing device (10, 12) and the environment is compensable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: HYDAC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Kloft, Jörg Meyer
  • Patent number: 11867000
    Abstract: A swivel stand apparatus includes a swivel tower and a swivel mounting frame to which the swivel tower preferably removably attaches. Non-wheeled friction reducing sliders preferably form an interface between the swivel mounting frame and the frame. The flanged beams are part of a basket which can receive and connect to either a jack base or a flange base. The basket can have legs of different lengths to allow connection of the basket to the bases in only one orientation to prevent incorrect connection of the basket to the base. The basket preferably includes specially configured pipe racks for holding vertically positioned pipe or pipe joints. The jack base preferably includes multiple legs to connect to legs of the basket, and two legs to contact and support the basket without necessarily being mechanically interlocked thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SWIVEL RENTAL & SUPPLY, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Douglas C. Burns
  • Patent number: 11867001
    Abstract: A system has a riser and a termination body, the termination body being arranged to connect at least one first conduit arranged along the riser and at least one second conduit extending from the riser to a drilling rig, where the termination body has a first clamp body and a second clamp body arranged for mutual joining and radial enclosure of a portion of the riser, and at least one receptacle block for connecting the at least first conduit, where the portion of the riser is unsplit. A method for connecting the termination body to the riser is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Future Production AS
    Inventor: Øystein Christensen
  • Patent number: 11867003
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for extending reach in a wellbore in oil well operations. In one implementation, a first coiled tubing string has a first coil interior surface, and a second coiled tubing string is disposed within the first coiled tubing string and has a second coil exterior surface. An annulus is defined by the first coil interior surface and the second coil exterior surface. The annulus is sealed proximal to a top end of the first coiled tubing string via a first seal and sealed proximal to a bottom end of the first coiled tubing string via a second seal. A fluid is sealed within the annulus at a pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ConocoPhillips Company
    Inventors: Dustin K. Ward, Jing H. Chow
  • Patent number: 11867004
    Abstract: A power tong assembly for making and breaking a tubular connection may include a first tong operable to engage a first tubular and a second tong operable to engage and rotate a second tubular relative to the first tubular to make or break the tubular connection. The second tong may include a rotation lever operable to set rotation of the second tong to a makeup setting or a break out setting and a speed lever operable to set rotation speed of the second tong in a low speed position or a high speed position. A system for selectively preventing high speed rotation of the power tong comprising a rotation lever position locking element and a coupling mechanism. The rotation lever position locking element may be movable between a blocking position and a non-blocking position. The coupling mechanism may couple the rotation lever position locking element to the speed lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Amer Hamoud Al Harthi
  • Patent number: 11867005
    Abstract: An offshore platform slot recovery tool system and method. Here, the slot recovery tool system can include a body, wherein the body comprises a plurality of supports extending therefrom, wherein the plurality of supports are configured to engage an interior surface of a conductor pipe, and an articulating arm extending from the body, wherein the articulating arm is configured in either a stowed configuration or a deployed configuration. In addition, the articulating arm is further configured to couple to a seafloor oil well casing, such that the conductor pipe is moved in a direction away from the seafloor oil well casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Osman Yusuf
  • Patent number: 11867006
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for semi-automatic or automatic control of a system for changing drilling tools for a drilling rig that includes a drill tower supporting a drill string with a drill pipe at a lowermost end, and a drilling tool changer assembly having a rotatable carousel assembly with a plurality of bit adaptors for holding drilling tools. The method includes removing a first drilling tool attached to the drill pipe and attaching a second drilling tool held in the rotatable carousel assembly to the drill pipe. The method may selectively be performed semi-automatically or automatically via a control system operatively coupled to the drilling rig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Epiroc Drilling Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Luke Bender, Gavin Maestas, Taylor Wilkin, Matthew Fosler, Samyuktha Pericharla, Tyler Berens
  • Patent number: 11867007
    Abstract: The present invention pertains novel coil tubing units and methods of stabbing. The coiled tubing unit has a tubing reel; a tubing guide operably connected to the tubing reel; and an injector operably connected to the tubing guide. The injector is configured to move toward or away from the tubing reel. This advantageously allows for more convenient, effective, and/or potentially safer stabbing methods to be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PREMIER COIL SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: M. Brett Witte, Randall Dean Behrens, Michael Bailey
  • Patent number: 11867008
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems, including computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems, for monitoring the flow of drilling mud from a wellbore by image processing. One method includes: capturing, using a digital imaging device, images of drilling mud at a surface of the wellbore as the drilling mud flows through one or more image capture zones of a circulation system that circulates drilling mud through the wellbore and a wellbore drilling assembly; receiving, by one or more processors of a computer system operatively coupled to the digital imaging device, the images captured by the digital imaging device; and processing, by the one or more processors, the images captured by the digital imaging device to determine a rate of flow of the drilling mud through the one or more image capture zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Arturo Magana Mora, Chinthaka Pasan Gooneratne, Michael Affleck, William Contreras Otalvora
  • Patent number: 11867009
    Abstract: A modular mobility platform has extendable and retractable tractor treads for engaging the walls of a downhole environment. The extendable and retractable tractor treads allow the platform to successfully navigate longitudinally through the downhole environment. The platform is composed of a plurality of different modules removably interconnected together longitudinally. Each module has at least one specific function, such as sensing, navigation, mobility, control, communication, power, or a combination thereof. The platform has longitudinally-directed detectors for detecting the forward or reverse direction through which the platform is to travel. A front end of the platform having a sensor at the forward end thereof articulates to navigate the mobility platform laterally through splits in the downhole environment. A system and method use the modular mobility platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Abubaker Saeed, Jeffrey Shasho, Shazad Sadick
  • Patent number: 11867010
    Abstract: A downhole liner delivery tool includes a housing with a flow path; a detachable nose assembly coupled to the housing and fluidly coupled to the flow path and including one or more retractable grips; a flexible wellbore liner including a first end coupled to the detachable nose assembly and a second end coupled within the housing and stored within the flow path of the housing; a seat formed in the flow path and configured to receive a member dropped in a wellbore to increase a fluid pressure of a fluid resin pumped through the flow path to anchor the one or more retractable grips to a wellbore wall and detach the detachable nose assembly from the housing, the fluid resin further pumped through the flow path to deploy the flexible wellbore liner from the housing and seal the flexible wellbore liner against the wellbore wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Richard Mark Pye
  • Patent number: 11867011
    Abstract: A downhole apparatus for collecting solids fallback in the tubing of an oil producing borehole comprises two or more baskets to collect the solids fall back, each basket partially occupying a portion of the inner cross section of the tubing, leaving a portion of the inner cross section of the tubing having an unrestricted flow path. The baskets when considered in plan view along longitudinal axis of the tubing are distributed such that together they cover substantially the whole area of the tubing while leaving an unobstructed non-straight flowpath around the baskets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fallback LLC
    Inventors: Philip Head, Lawrence Hugh Burleigh
  • Patent number: 11867012
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first body, a second body, a shear pin, and a divider. The first body includes a coupling. The second body includes a cutter blade. The shear pin is configured to hold the position of the second body relative to the first body in an open position. The coupling is configured to couple the first body to the second body in a closed position. In the open position, the apparatus defines first and second flow paths for fluids and solids to pass through the apparatus. The first flow path is defined through the first body and through an inner bore of the divider. The second flow path is defined through the first body and through an annulus surrounding the divider. In the closed position, the second flow path is closed, such that solids remain in the annulus surrounding the divider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Graham Hitchcock, Michael Affleck, Aslan Bulekbay
  • Patent number: 11867013
    Abstract: A casing removal system includes a flow diversion valve. The flow diversion valve includes a flow switch that engages an upper end of an inner casing. When the flow switch engages the upper end of the inner casing, the flow diversion valve opens and at least a portion of the fluid flow through the casing removal system exhausts to the annulus. The remaining fluid flow below the flow diversion valve is insufficient to operate a mud motor that drives a casing cutter. In other embodiments, when the flow switch is not engaged with the inner wall of casing, the flow diversion valve prevents fluid flow to components that are downhole of the valve and when the flow switch is engaged with the inner wall of casing, the flow diversion valve allows for fluid flow to components that are downhole of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Richard T. Caminari
  • Patent number: 11867014
    Abstract: A drilling assembly for making a passage in an object within a petroleum well. The drilling assembly comprises a drill bit assembly, a cutting assembly, and both assemblies are fastened to a rotatable drive assembly. The drill bit assembly comprises a drill bit. The cutting assembly comprises a hole saw assembly. The cutting assembly is resiliently displaceable to the drill bit assembly. The drilling assembly comprises a displaceable membrane within the tubular body. The membrane divides an interior of the tubular body in a receiving compartment and an inner compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Altus Intervention (Technologies) AS
    Inventors: Kristine Falk Gabrielsen, Arne Motland, Lasse Haugland
  • Patent number: 11867015
    Abstract: A friction reduction system includes a housing including a central axis and a central passage, a valve disposed in the housing and including a first valve body and a second valve body wherein the first valve body is permitted to rotate relative to the second valve body, and a mandrel coupled to the second valve body and permitted to travel axially relative to the housing, wherein a first net pressure force is applied against the mandrel that corresponds to a drilling fluid pressure of a drilling fluid in response to flowing the drilling fluid through the valve and transitioning the valve from a closed configuration to an open configuration, and wherein a second net pressure force is applied against the mandrel that corresponds to a wellbore fluid pressure in response to flowing the drilling fluid through the valve and transitioning the valve from the open configuration to the closed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
    Inventors: Khoi Trinh, Yufang Xia
  • Patent number: 11867016
    Abstract: A downhole robotic fishing tool includes a main body configured to be positioned in a wellbore and an intermediate body connected to a downhole end of the main body by an upper articulating joint. A robotic hand is connected to a downhole end of the intermediate body by a lower articulating joint. The robotic hand is configurable between an open configuration and a closed configuration and includes a palm, a robotic thumb and a robotic finger attached at their respective proximal ends to the palm in opposition. When in the closed configuration, the distal ends of the thumb and finger are within a grasp center area centered on a center point defined by an intersection of a grasping axis and an opposition axis of the robotic hand. A camera is positioned on the palm that has an optical axis that intersects the grasp center area proximate the center point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Fuad A. AlSultan, Ahmed J. AlSultan, Abdulrahman Mishkhes
  • Patent number: 11867017
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a greaseless multi-level pressure control assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: AXIS SERVICE, LLC
    Inventors: Kathy Suazo, Joseph Sites, Michael Russell
  • Patent number: 11867018
    Abstract: An annular seal system for sealing between a casing hanger and a wellhead housing, the system including an actuator ring having a rigid portion and a flexible portion, and a lockdown ring positioned adjacent the actuator ring. The annular seal system further includes a seal assembly capable of moving between a de-energized position and an energized position, wherein the seal assembly in the de-energized position has a defined a space between the seal assembly and the rigid portion of the actuator ring, wherein the seal assembly in the energized position has the space closed, wherein the rigid portion of the actuator ring is to contact a surface of the casing hanger, wherein the flexible portion of the actuator ring is to push the lockdown ring into engagement with the wellhead, and wherein the flexible portion of the actuator ring adapted is to axially compress to allow positional variation between the lockdown ring and the wellhead housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Samuel H. Cheng, Greg Dunn, Daryl Attaway, Joseph Pallini, Amini Shakib
  • Patent number: 11867019
    Abstract: When cementing tubing in a borehole, a wet shoe track is created, and pressure testing of the tubing is performed. To do this, a wiper plug seats in a seat of an insert disposed in a first position in a flow bore of a tool. The insert is released and moved toward a second position in the flow bore in response to the first pressure applied against the seated wiper plug. A collar disposed on the wiper plug seats on a second seat disposed uphole of the first seat. The tubing is pressure tested by applying pressure down the tubing against the wiper plug with the collar seated in the second seat. Fluid communication is then established through the flow bore downhole of the wiper plug, the first seat, and the second seat by removing the collar from the wiper plug. This can create the wet shoe track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Craig A. Wright, Zachary S. Trine
  • Patent number: 11867020
    Abstract: The method comprising providing a eutectic alloy based downhole tool comprising a tubular body with eutectic alloy located on an outer surface thereof, said tool having an outer diameter with a clearance from the inner diameter of the well. The downhole tool is delivered to a target region within an oil/gas well where the tool is to be deployed. Once the tool is in position within the well a tubular expanding tool is run through the interior of the tubular body so as to increase the outer diameter of the sealing downhole tool and in so doing reduce the clearance between the alloy and the well. A heater is deployed within the tubular body proximal to the alloy and operated to melt the alloy. The alloy is then allowed to cool and resolidify, whereby the tool is sealed in place within the target region of the well using the alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: BiSN Tec. Ltd.
    Inventor: Paul Carragher
  • Patent number: 11867021
    Abstract: A cementing pod is disclosed. The cementing pod includes a cylindrical housing with a first end and a second end, and a throughbore disposed through the cylindrical housing in a first axial direction from the first end to the second end. The cementing pod further includes a plurality of openings disposed through the cylindrical housing into the throughbore in a second axial direction, and a solid fill disposed at the second end of the cylindrical housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventor: Julio C. Guzman
  • Patent number: 11867022
    Abstract: A well system includes a wellhead positionable at a surface of a wellbore. The well system also includes a ball valve for coupling to the wellhead. The ball valve is movable between an open position and a closed position. Further, the well system includes a hollow core electric motor positionable adjacent to the ball valve to move the ball valve between the open position and the closed position. Furthermore, the well system includes a power source that provides electric power to the hollow core electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Davis Wright, Darryl Kenneth Mackie
  • Patent number: 11867023
    Abstract: A system and methods according to which a controller communicates control signals to a first frac leg, which includes a wellhead operably associated with a first wellbore, a valve operably coupled to the wellhead, opposite the first wellbore, a frac line operably coupled to the wellhead, and a zipper module operably coupled to the frac line, opposite the wellhead. The first frac leg includes a first sub-controller that receives control signals from the controller. A grease system lubricates the first frac leg and the zipper module. The grease system includes a second sub-controller that receives control signals from the controller. A second frac leg is operably associated with a second wellbore. The second frac leg includes a third sub-controller that receives control signals from the controller. The first, second, and/or third sub-controllers may receive control signals from the controller via a communication bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DOWNING WELLHEAD EQUIPMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Ronnie B. Beason, Nicholas J. Cannon
  • Patent number: 11867024
    Abstract: A rigid valve block body and a method for determining fluid flow direction are disclosed. The valve block body includes a first fluid inlet and a further fluid inlet at opposed sides of a rigid valve block body. A first fluid outlet of the valve block body and a further fluid outlet of the valve block body are disposed in a spaced apart relationship. A first V-shaped fluid communication passageway comprises two passageway portions each extending within the valve block body from a first common root region proximate to the first fluid inlet. A further V-shaped fluid communication passageway comprises two further passageway portions each extending within the valve block body away from a further common root region proximate to the further fluid port. An end region of each passageway portion of the first V-shaped fluid communication passageway meets an end region of a respective passageway portion of the further V-shaped fluid communication passageway proximate to a respective fluid outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited
    Inventors: David Neil Spencer, Per Magne Reiten, William Bryson
  • Patent number: 11867025
    Abstract: A flow control apparatus for producing hydrocarbon material from a subterranean formation is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing that defines a housing passage, and a flow communicator that extends through the housing for effecting fluid communication between the housing passage and the subterranean formation. The apparatus includes a flow controller within the housing for modulating flow communication between the housing passage and the subterranean formation via the flow communicator. The flow controller includes a filter medium-defining counterpart and a shroud-defining counterpart, and the filter medium-defining counterpart has a filter medium. The flow controller is configurable for disposition relative to the flow communicator to open, close, or screen the flow communicator. While the filter medium and the flow communicator are not aligned, the housing and shroud-defining counterpart shields the filter medium from the housing passage and the external environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NCS MULTISTAGE INC.
    Inventors: Stanley Mberia, Doug Brunskill
  • Patent number: 11867026
    Abstract: A system for cooling drilling fluid circulating in a wellbore drilled by a wellbore drilling system includes a drilling fluid conduit positioned at a surface location separate from a wellhead of the wellbore. Drilling fluid flowed from the wellbore and an outer jacket passes through the drilling fluid conduit. An inner surface of the outer jacket at least partially defines an interior volume within which the drilling fluid conduit is at least partially disposed. The interior volume is at least partially filled with liquid nitrogen, such that the drilling fluid passing through the drilling fluid conduit is cooled by heat exchange with the liquid nitrogen across a wall of the drilling fluid conduit prior to flowing back into the wellbore via a mud pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Waheed Syed Arshad, Misfer J. Almarri, Bilal Tariq, Mohammad H. Altwaijri