Patents Issued in May 9, 2024
  • Publication number: 20240151082
    Abstract: A furniture fitting for movably mounting a furniture part on a furniture carcass includes a mounting body to be fastened to the furniture part or to the furniture carcass by a fastening screw. The mounting body is formed, at least in certain regions, from a first material, preferably a metallic material such as steel. The mounting body has a receiving element in which the fastening screw is or can be mounted, and the receiving element is formed at least partially from a second material, preferably plastic, which second material is different from the first material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Florian Gstrein
  • Publication number: 20240151083
    Abstract: A cabinet apparatus having a housing and a door. The housing defines a storage space having a front access opening. The door includes a first panel structure having a first sidewall panel having a first interior surface that partially defines the storage space and a first exterior surface and a tubular flange extending lengthwise along the first sidewall panel and protruding from the first exterior surface. A first hinge component is located on the tubular flange. The door includes a door body and a second hinge component thereon. The first and second hinge components are operably coupled to one another so that the door is pivotably mounted to the housing to be rotatable about a rotational axis between: (1) a closed position in which the door body encloses the front access opening; and (2) an open position in which the storage space is accessible via the front access opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander V. LeTourneau, Swapnil Vasant Borade, Zhongpeng Zha, Linan Han
  • Publication number: 20240151084
    Abstract: A hinged system includes a preassembled hinge module for pivotally coupling a first component to a second component. The preassembled hinge module includes a shaft, a torque element frictionally engaging the shaft, and a housing. The housing includes a cover, a side wall, and a rear wall that define an interior space enclosed within the housing. The interior space receives the torque element inside the housing. The cover defines a first aperture, and the rear wall defines a second aperture, the first aperture and the second aperture aligned with a pivot axis of the shaft. The shaft extends through at least the first aperture, the interior space, and the second aperture. The shaft is separate from, and configured to be mounted to, the first component. The housing is separate from, and configured to be mounted to, the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Southco, Inc.
    Inventors: Hector Eduardo Rivas, Mark James Rowley, Pradeep Jayanna, Michael Thomas Holland, Richard B. Langkamp, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20240151085
    Abstract: A hinge includes a first fixing bracket, a shaft and a swivel bracket. The first fixing bracket includes two first support pieces and a first connection piece. The two first support pieces are arranged in parallel to each other, and the first connection piece is connected to the two second support pieces. The two first support pieces are respectively provided with a shaft hole and the shaft holes are arranged coaxially along a central axis. At least one of the first support pieces is provided with one limiting extension portion extending in a direction in parallel to the central axis at an upper front end of the first support piece and extending towards the other first support piece. The shaft is inserted into the shaft hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: KUAN-YU LIN, HSIU-FAN HO
  • Publication number: 20240151086
    Abstract: A hinge assembly utilizes first and second hinge members. Each hinge member has an attachment body and a pair of laterally spaced apart opposite arms. Each arm has an aperture for receiving a cylindrical member for rotatably coupling the hinge members together so that the hinge members are rotatable about the cylindrical member. The arms of each of the first and second hinge members are spaced apart the same distance, with each arm of having an outer face that faces away from the opposite arm and an inner face that faces the opposite arm. The hinge members are configured so that each arm of each hinge member interfaces with one arm of the other hinge member with the arms of the hinge members being in an offset arrangement wherein the outer face of only one arm of each hinge member interfaces the inner face of only one arm of the other hinge member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Mason, Lotan Stern
  • Publication number: 20240151087
    Abstract: A door closing impact absorber apparatus includes a first body, a second body coupled to the first body, wherein the first body and the second body are relatively movable therebetween, and an elastic portion disposed between the first body and the second body to support elastically the first body and the second body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Hyungin YUN, Chungsik Yim
  • Publication number: 20240151088
    Abstract: A tailgate adjustment strap that allows a user to adjust the tailgate of a truck between a fully open and a fully closed position. The tailgate latch connector is secured to the base belt via a loop sewn into the first end of the base belt. The striker connector extends outwardly from one end of the cam buckle and includes a plate having a central aperture which varies in diameter. The striker is an elongated rod extending inwardly toward a middle of the truck bed from its attachment point to the inner side panel of the truck bed. A disc is disposed on an end of the striker and has a greater diameter than the central aperture to prevent the striker connector from disconnecting from the striker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Brian McCarthy
  • Publication number: 20240151089
    Abstract: A refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet, a door, a door opener, and a controller. The door opener may be attached to a cabinet and include a casing, a push rod, and a position sensor. The controller may be in operable communication with the door opener and configured to direct an opener operation. The opener operation may include directing the push rod to a retracted position, detecting the door in the closed position following directing the push rod to the retracted position, directing the push rod forward from the retracted position following detecting the door in the closed position, monitoring sensor output at the rod-load sensor while directing the push rod forward, detecting contact with the door while monitoring sensor output, and halting the push rod at a partially extended position in response to detecting contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Goodman Schroeder, Tanner Davis Gunn
  • Publication number: 20240151090
    Abstract: A diagnosing device identifies a plugging operation period in which a plug door performs a plugging operation, the plug door having a guide roller attached thereto, the plug door being configured to perform an opening-closing operation and the plugging operation by allowing the guide roller to move along a guide rail; obtains drive information including a value representing at least one of a current value or a torque value of a drive unit, the drive unit being configured to drive the plug door; and diagnoses an abnormality in the guide roller or the guide rail based on the drive information observed during the identified plugging operation period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Joji IMAI, Shigetaka KAGA
  • Publication number: 20240151091
    Abstract: A door closing apparatus includes a first rotary electric motor that is configured to rotate a first pinion to open and close a first door body; and a second rotary electric motor that is provided separately from the first rotary electric motor and configured to rotate a second pinion to open and close a second door body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Takahiro SHIROMA, Atsushi KITABATA
  • Publication number: 20240151092
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a cabin interior, a powered door having an actuator for moving the door between closed and open positions, interior sensors sensing position or movement of an occupant in the cabin interior, and exterior sensors sensing a passerby proximate to the vehicle. The vehicle includes a controller determining an occupant intending to exit the vehicle via the door based on the interior sensors and determining a passerby passing by the door in an open position using the at least one exterior sensors. The controller controls the actuator to open the door when the occupant is intended to exit the vehicle and at least partially closes the door when a passerby is detected passing by the vehicle door and an occupant is determined not to be exiting the vehicle. The controller controls the actuator to open the door further when the passerby is determined to pass by the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brendan Diamond, Keith Weston, Stuart C. Salter, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Kristopher Karl Brown
  • Publication number: 20240151093
    Abstract: A heated cabinet including door assembly having a door positioned between opposing jambs of a door frame, wherein the door is pivotable, about a pivot axis, between an open position and a closed position. The door assembly includes a motor assembly operably connected to the door to pivot the door about the pivot axis and a control board operatively coupled to the motor assembly. The door assembly further has a first break beam emitter mounted to one of the opposing jambs and a first break beam receiver mounted to another of the opposing jambs and operatively connected to the control board. The first break beam emitter and first break beam receiver are disposed along a beam axis extending parallel to the pivot axis and proximate to an edge of the door adjacent to the pivot axis. The door assembly is configured such that interruption of a beam projected between the first break beam emitter and the first break beam receiver alters operation of the motor assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Craig WHITAKER, Edward Leonard WEAVER, II, Scott A. ZIEKER, Charles Eldon WARNER, Ronald G. KNOLLMAN
  • Publication number: 20240151094
    Abstract: A proxy device comprising a processor and a communication interface communicatively coupled to the processor. The communication interface configured to transmit information representative of a second security protocol to a remote control. The remote control operable to transmit communications to a movable barrier operator utilizing a first security protocol. In response to transmitting the information representative of the second security protocol to the remote control, the communication interface receives a first acknowledgement communication from the remote control indicating the remote control utilizes the second security protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Casparus CATE, David R. MORRIS, Brian Roy SKOTTY, Cory Jon SORICE
  • Publication number: 20240151095
    Abstract: A system for mulling a plurality a first fenestration frame and a second fenestration frame including a primary mull connector that is sliding received between the first and second fenestration frames. The primary mull connector having a first end with a jamb engagement portion and a second end that is free of a jamb engagement portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: MI Windows and Doors, LLC
    Inventor: Brandon R. Snyder
  • Publication number: 20240151096
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a shim (100) having a thickness that can be adjusted by means of an actuator device. Actuating the actuator device causes a movement of a sliding element (20) inside a housing (10) in a first direction (101). The movement of the sliding element (20) causes a movement of a movable element (30) in a second direction (102), thus increasing the distance between an outer wall (34, 84, 94) of the movable element (34) and a bottom wall (13) of the housing (10), and thus increasing the thickness of the shim (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Cemil SAHIN
  • Publication number: 20240151097
    Abstract: An improved pocket door frame for a sliding door. The frame employs a header support having an overhead track attached by T-nuts. A pair of vertical spreaders form a pocket recess entrance. A vertical stud member is attached to an end of the header support with a plurality of horizontal slats coupling the vertical spreaders to the vertical stud member. The horizontal slats are attached with even spacing and square alignment with plywood panels extending from a base to the header support and fastened to the horizontal slats and vertical stud member. A header spacer is positioned perpendicular to a lower surface of the header support and extends outwardly from the pocket recess. A header frame member is positioned perpendicular to each header spacer and extends outwardly from the pocket recess. The pocket door frame is constructed and arranged to provide dimensional stability and prevent warping or twisting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Dale Beswick, Kevin Cost
  • Publication number: 20240151098
    Abstract: An internally dismantled anti-typhoon soundproof horizontal sliding window, which is fastened to an outer frame body and is provided with at least one outer sliding window and an inner sliding window; it is characterized in that: the outer side of the outer frame body is provided with at least one outer fixing column, an elastically movable top plate is provided on the inside and outside of the outer fixed column; when the two windows are closed, a central control lock can be used to drive the top plate to move through the inner columns of the outer and inner windows inwardly, the top plate squeezes the two inner column clamps tightly; the outer column of the outer frame body is provided with a hook, which can be used for the outer sliding window and the outer column of the inner sliding window; a snap cover that seals the grooves of the outer frame; thus, the window structure can be tightly closed in an all-round way, so as to meet the requirements of windproof, rainproof and sound insulation of the strong t
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: WEN-YI HUNG, HAO-TING HUNG
  • Publication number: 20240151099
    Abstract: A Garage door with a secure door assembly including a garage door with a horizontally extending panel having a framework including parallel spaced apart horizontal members extending along a top edge and a bottom edge thereof and a secure package door assembly carried by the horizontally extending panel. The secure package door including an outer portion and an inner portion coupled together with the parallel spaced apart horizontal members captured therebetween. A door coupled by hinges to the outer portion and moveable between an open position and a closed position, A locking mechanism is included for locking the door in the closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Joe Frost
  • Publication number: 20240151100
    Abstract: A method for electrical control of a functional element incorporated in a glazing unit and having electrically controllable optical properties. The glazing unit includes a composite pane having an outer pane and an inner pane which are connected to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer, a functional element is arranged between the outer pane and the inner pane and has an active layer having electrically controllable optical properties between a first planar electrode and a second planar electrode, the optical properties are controlled by a control unit connected to at least two transparent planar electrodes of the functional element, and an electrical voltage is applied between the planar electrodes by the control unit. An inverse function is used to determine a magnitude of the electrical voltage, and also as a temperature-dependent linearization function and a temperature of the functional element or composite pane is detected by a temperature sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Richard STELZER, Bastian KLAUSS, Doane Shelby CRAIG
  • Publication number: 20240151101
    Abstract: A window covering comprising: a fabric having a top and bottom for covering a window; a plurality of horizontally spaced members attached to said fabric between said top and bottom; at least one attachment secured to each said spaced member; a flexible sleeve attached to each said attachment of said plurality of horizontally spaced members between said top and bottom of said fabric; and a cord extending inside said flexible sleeve from said bottom to said top for lifting said fabric from a closed position covering said window to an open position revealing said window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Mario Marocco, Steven Marocco
  • Publication number: 20240151102
    Abstract: A retrofit device for automating a window blind having a shade operatively connected to a vertically adjustable pull bar. The device includes a housing and a fastener for attaching the housing to the pull bar. The device further includes a first track attachable to a window frame, a second track attachable to the window frame, a first drive at a first end of the housing and a second drive at a. second end of the housing. The first and second drives are operably engageable with the first and second tracks, respectively, for raising and lowering the pull bar and shade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Zachary Sweitzer
  • Publication number: 20240151103
    Abstract: An adjustable resistance tail plug includes a fixed seat, an adjusting wheel, a sleeve, a screw rod unit, an outer casing, a friction wheel and a clutch spring. The friction wheel engages threadably the screw rod unit, and is driven by the sleeve to move relative to the outer casing, so as to adjust a friction force between the outer casing and the friction wheel. The clutch spring is switchable between a contracted state and an expanded state. When in the contracted state, the clutch spring is tightened to abut against the second circumferential surface so that the sleeve is prevented from rotating relative to the fixed seat by the clutch spring. When in the expanded state, the clutch spring releases the second circumferential surface, and the adjusting wheel is rotatable with the sleeve through the clutch spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Szu-Chang HUANG
  • Publication number: 20240151104
    Abstract: An automatic tensioning side track assembly includes a stationary base track, a dynamic screen receiver, a first magnet, a second magnet, and a screen. The first magnet is oppositely charged relative to the second magnet and is configured to maintain an attractive magnetic force with the second magnet. The first magnet is disposed at a first position associated with a first rectilinear horizontal distance away from the second magnet when the screen is at a substantially planar configuration and has a desired tensioned state. The first magnet is disposed at a second position associated with a second rectilinear horizontal distance away from the second magnet when the screen is at a substantially bowed configuration and has an undesired tensioned state. The first magnet is configured to automatically return from the second position to the first position after the screen is displaced to the substantially bowed configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Murray
  • Publication number: 20240151105
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a folding ladder with a handrail. The folding ladder with a handrail includes a first frame component, a second frame component and a handrail frame component. A rotatable step board component is arranged on the first frame component. The second frame component is rotatably connected to the first frame component. The first end of the handrail frame component is rotatably connected to an upper end of the second frame component, and a second end of the handrail frame component is rotatably connected to one side the first frame component and close to a lower end of the first frame component. The folding ladder rotates between a first position and a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Yongkang Siyu Industry and Trade Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhijiang HUANG
  • Publication number: 20240151106
    Abstract: A supporting frame and a stepladder using the supporting frame are provided. The supporting frame comprises two supporting legs symmetrically parallelly arranged in a left-and-right direction and two lateral rods symmetrically parallelly arranged in an up-and-down direction. The two lateral rods are connected to and extend between the two supporting legs, and an outer surface of each of the two supporting legs comprises a groove. An end portion of each of the two lateral rods is disposed with a sleeve sleeved on a corresponding one of the two supporting legs, and a part of the sleeve corresponding to the groove is configured to be pressed to move into the groove so as to enable the sleeve to embrace the corresponding one of the two supporting legs to achieve an interference fit connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Luhao LENG
  • Publication number: 20240151107
    Abstract: A bucket for a multi-position ladder is disclosed. The bucket provides an area for workspace or for storage of tools or materials. The bucket is configured to be removably attachable at the top of the ladder when in use in the A-frame position or removably attached to the ladder and preferably within the boundaries of the ladder when not in use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Tricam Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin M. Wernberg, Joseph P. Foley, Ryan P. Ellsworth, Benjamin P. Williams
  • Publication number: 20240151108
    Abstract: Various devices and methods for hanging tools or other items from a ladder are disclosed. The devices may be incorporated into parts of the ladder itself or be separate add-on devices for use with assorted ladders. The devices include a hinge button hook, a hinge button, a foot hook, and a rail hook.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Tricam Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin M. Wernberg, Jackson T. Wilkey, Joseph P. Foley, Ryan P. Ellsworth, Benjamin P. Williams
  • Publication number: 20240151109
    Abstract: A downhole mud motor includes a driveshaft housing, a driveshaft rotatably disposed in the driveshaft housing, a bearing mandrel coupled to the driveshaft, and a bend adjustment assembly including a first position, wherein the bend adjustment assembly includes a second position, wherein the bend adjustment assembly includes an adjustment mandrel having a first axial position corresponding to the first position of the bend adjustment assembly and a second axial position which corresponds to the second position of the bend adjustment assembly, and wherein the bend adjustment assembly is prevented from actuating from the first position to the second position when the adjustment mandrel is in the first axial position, and wherein the bend adjustment assembly is permitted to actuate between the first position and the second position when the adjustment mandrel is in a second axial position that is axially spaced from the first axial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: NATIONAL OILWELL DHT, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffery Ronald Clausen, Nicholas Ryan Marchand
  • Publication number: 20240151110
    Abstract: A tunneling device includes a body assembly, an expander coupled to the body assembly and extending along a longitudinal axis, and a tip coupled to the expander. The expander is disposed between a force transmitter and the tip. The expander is expandable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis between a first configuration having a first width measured perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and a second configuration having a second width measured perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The tip has a width measured perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The first width of the expander is equal to or less than the width of the tip. The force transmitter is configured to deliver a force through the expander to the tip to move the tip in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis with the expander in the second configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Thomas Cross, Christopher Walter Falcone, Deepak Trivedi
  • Publication number: 20240151111
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate connection of multiple stage completions. A first completion stage is deployed at a wellbore location. Subsequently, the next completion stage is moved downhole into engagement with the first completion stage. The completion stages each have communication lines that are coupled together downhole via a wetmate connection. Systems and methods for determining an orientation of the communication lines relative to the wellbore are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Cassidy, Julia Huynh, Valeria Erives, Yann Dufour, Nabil Batita
  • Publication number: 20240151112
    Abstract: A horizontal directional drilling system. The system has a pilot drill and an exit side drill, with a drill string extending between them. A backreamer is positioned between the drills to enlarge a borehole. The pilot drill pulls and rotates the backreamer. The exit side drill adds segments to the product pipe and pushes the product pipe into the enlarged borehole. The exit side drill is equipped with a rotational disconnect. The disconnect is engaged to allow torque transfer between a motor and a spindle when adding segments to the product pipe. The disconnect is disengaged to prevent torque transfer between the motor and the spindle when pushing the product pipe into the enlarged borehole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: David L. Horst, BJ Burky, Tim Casey, Richard B. Gentry, Stuart Riggenbach, Aaron Edward Traxler
  • Publication number: 20240151113
    Abstract: Systems and methods presented herein facilitate operation of well-related tools. In certain embodiments, a variety of data (e.g., downhole data and/or surface data) may be collected to enable optimization of operations related to the well-related tools. In certain embodiments, the collected data may be provided as advisory data (e.g., presented to human operators of the well to inform control actions performed by the human operators) and/or used to facilitate automation of downhole processes and/or surface processes (e.g., which may be automatically performed by a computer implemented surface processing system (e.g., a well control system), without intervention from human operators). In certain embodiments, the systems and methods described herein may enhance downhole operations (e.g., milling operations) by improving the efficiency and utilization of data to enable performance optimization and improved resource controls of the downhole operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Richard Morrison, Sascha Trummer, Luis Silva, Zhanke Liu
  • Publication number: 20240151114
    Abstract: A wellhead housing of a wellhead assembly can include a body having a top end, a bottom end, and a cavity that traverses its length between the top end and the bottom end. The wellhead housing can also include a main channel that traverses the body from the cavity at a distal end of the main channel to an outer perimeter of the body at a proximal end of the main channel, where the proximal end of the main channel is located closer to the top end of the body compared to the distal end of the main channel, and where the distal end of the main channel is located closer to the bottom end of the body compared to the proximal end of the main channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Jay Patrick Painter
  • Publication number: 20240151115
    Abstract: A housing system includes a housing body having an internal cavity and an opening. A cap is removably fitted to the opening using a set of sliders. Each slider in the set of sliders has a fixed rail secured to an internal surface of the housing body and a dynamic rail connected to an inner surface of the cap. The cap slides between open and closed configurations on the dynamic rail. One or more components are also connected to the inner surface of the cap, such that when the cap is opened, the one or more components are accessible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Hydril USA Distribution LLC
    Inventor: Amine Abou-Assaad
  • Publication number: 20240151116
    Abstract: A hanger assembly includes: a main body; a lock ring coupled to the main body and configured to expand radially outward into a profile on an inner diameter of the wellhead; and an actuator, wherein the actuator is capable of transferring an axial force from the actuator into outward radial expansion of the lock ring toward the profile on the inner diameter of the wellhead. An interface between the actuator and the lock ring is shaped such that: axially downward movement of the actuator from a starting position to an intermediate position actuates the lock ring into the profile; and axially downward movement of the actuator from the intermediate position to a pre-load position applies a pre-load to the hanger assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew B. Mitchell, Chris D. Bartlett, David Scantlebury, Rick Murphy, Fife B. Ellis, Gregory Norwood
  • Publication number: 20240151117
    Abstract: A plug and perforation system includes a plug that is configured to isolate formation zones within a wellbore that has a casing. The plug includes a flow control subassembly, an anchoring subassembly, and a sealing device. The flow control subassembly a valve assembly. The valve assembly includes a housing, a valve chamber inside the housing, a valve seat, and a valve element inside the valve chamber. In some embodiments, the valve element is secured to the housing with a frangible matrix that is manufactured as a unitary part with the valve element and the housing. The frangible matrix is designed to fail under a predetermined shearing load to allow the valve element to be pushed into the valve seat. In other embodiments, the valve element is retained by one or more shear pins or shearable threads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher CREWS, Joseph MIZE, Shawn WITT
  • Publication number: 20240151118
    Abstract: A downhole component for integration in wellbore string is provided. The downhole component includes fluid conduits enabling fluid flow therethrough and a sealing element connected to the fluid conduits and operable between a disengaged configuration, where the sealing element is disengaged from an inner surface of the wellbore, and an engaged configuration. The downhole component also includes an actuation assembly having a blocking member releasably secured to the fluid conduits and a fluid-pressure operable actuation member slidably connected to the fluid conduits adapted to engage and operate the sealing element from the disengaged configuration to the engaged configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Michael WERRIES, Rio WHYTE, Brock GILLIS
  • Publication number: 20240151119
    Abstract: A system and associated method for detecting an entity in a detection area surrounding a drilling machine is provided. The detection area is being divided into a plurality of subzones, with each of said plurality of subzones being associated with a corresponding safety level. The system comprises at least one optical scanner optically covering the detection area and operable to capture the entity within the detection area; a controlling device, operatively connected with the at least one optical scanner, the controlling device is configured to: determine a position of the entity captured by the at least one optical scanner within at least one of the plurality of subzones of the detection area; and trigger at least one action signal based on the safety level of the subzone corresponding to the determined position of the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Pietro DE CICCIO, Alain BEAUCHESNE, Philippe LAPLANTE
  • Publication number: 20240151120
    Abstract: Provided is a downhole tool. The downhole tool, in one aspect, includes an isolation system for placement at a junction between a first wellbore and a secondary wellbore. In at least one aspect, the isolation system includes an elongated tubular, the elongated tubular having an opening connecting an interior of the elongated tubular and an exterior of the elongated tubular; and a slot located in the elongated tubular, the slot spanning the opening. In at least one aspect, the isolation system further includes an isolation sleeve located within the isolation system, the isolation sleeve configured to slide within the slot to either isolate the interior of the elongated tubular from the exterior of the elongated tubular or provide access between the interior of the elongated tubular and the exterior of the elongated tubular, and an I-shaped seal located in an annulus between the elongated tubular and the isolation sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Butler, Leonque Jose Rondon, David Joe Steele
  • Publication number: 20240151121
    Abstract: Systems and methods deliver degradable polyester during gravel packing and may include a gravel pack system disposed within a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation. The systems and methods may include drilling at least one interval of a wellbore with a non-aqueous wellbore fluid, wherein the non-aqueous wellbore fluid produces a filter cake in the at least one interval of the wellbore and gravel packing an interval of a wellbore traversing a subterranean formation with a gravel pack that comprises non-aqueous gravel pack carrier fluid and proppants. The systems and methods may also include hydrolyzing degradable polyester that is associated with the gravel pack and degrading at least one portion of the filter cake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Tint Htoo AUNG, Cedric MANZOLELOUA, Balkrishna GADIYAR, Edward DERKACH
  • Publication number: 20240151122
    Abstract: A well construction method in which a drilled bore is lined with a plurality of successively smaller diameter sections of bore-lining tubing including casing sections a liner section is provided. A liner is provided with an inner string extending to a distal end of the liner. The liner and the inner string are run into a distal section of a drilled bore. Settable material is pumped from surface through the inner string and through the distal end of the liner to partially fill an outer annulus surrounding the liner. Fluid displaced from the outer annulus and a portion of the settable material is permitted to flow from the outer annulus through a port in the liner and into an inner annulus between the inner string and the liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Tristam Paul Horn, Stephen Edmund Bruce, David Michael Shand
  • Publication number: 20240151123
    Abstract: A method for expanding a two-stage expandable liner hanger includes expanding a first section of an expandable tubular having the first section and a second section. The first section includes one or more anchoring ribs. The method further includes expanding the second section of the expandable tubular after cement is pumped into the expandable tubular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Chee Sing Kelvin Loh, Shanu Thottungal Eldho
  • Publication number: 20240151124
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for storing chemical products or their solutions in reservoir rock. In said method, the cargo boat containing the chemical product to be stored in the reservoir is connected to the production platform through an appropriate connection and connecting to the well header. The product is pumped through the chemical product capture line using a triplex chemical injection pump aligned to the head of the production or injection well. The product is pumped through the surface lines, riser and subsea line and, passing through the WCT, it is injected into the reservoir through the production or injection string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A. - PETROBRAS
    Inventors: FERNANDO ANTONIO MOREIRA DA SILVA, Mario Germino Ferreira Da Silva
  • Publication number: 20240151125
    Abstract: A system for treating a plurality of adjacent wells having casing includes a wireline, perforating equipment, and a fiber-optic interrogator. The wireline has at least one optical fiber disposed along its length. At least one optical fiber is configured as a distributed acoustic sensor. The perforating equipment includes a perforating gun that can couple to a termination of the wireline. Run downhole on the wireline, the perforating gun can perforate the casing. The fiber-optic interrogator is configured to couple to another termination of the wireline. The fiber-optic interrogator is configured to interrogate the at least one optical fiber for distributed acoustic sensing. The wireline deployed in a well with the perforating gun can remain in the well, while an adjacent well is stimulated to produce hydraulic fracture. During the stimulation, the fiber-optic wireline is used for distributed acoustic sensing during the fracture operation of the adjacent well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Borehole Seismic, LLC.
    Inventors: Aaron Janssen, Phillip Chen, Robinson Butler Howell
  • Publication number: 20240151126
    Abstract: A control system identifies preferred performance information associated with a hydraulic fracturing system; and obtains engine operation information associated with a plurality of engines included in a plurality of respective pump systems of the hydraulic fracturing system. The control system identifies, based on the engine operation information, a set of one or more engines, of the plurality of engines, that are utilizing gaseous fuel and/or that are capable of utilizing gaseous fuel, and obtains methane number information associated with the set of one or more engines. The control system selects, based on the preferred performance information and the methane number information, a set of one or more operation optimization maps, determines, based on the set of one or more operation optimization maps and the engine operation information, control information associated with the plurality of pump systems. The control system controls, based on the control information, the plurality of pump systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Yanchai ZHANG, Isaac E. FOX, Matthew PARKER, Shawn DAMM
  • Publication number: 20240151127
    Abstract: A method of forming a hydraulic fracturing slurry. The method uses a proppant conveyance system that comprises a sand hopper configured to receive and hold proppant. The system also includes a prime mover. The system further includes one or more plunger assemblies. Each plunger assembly resides proximate a base of the sand hopper. Each of the plunger assemblies receives a defined volume of proppant, and transports the defined volume of proppant into a sand manifold in response to power provided by the prime mover. The sand manifold, in turn, resides in series along a high-pressure frac line. As fracturing fluid moves through the sand manifold, it is mixed with proppant, producing a frac slurry for use in wellbore fracturing operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Proppant Delivery Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Brian M. Alsip
  • Publication number: 20240151128
    Abstract: Systems and methods for exchanging fracturing components of a hydraulic fracturing unit and may include an exchangeable fracturing component section to facilitate quickly exchanging a fracturing component of a hydraulic fracturing unit. The fracturing component section may include a section frame including a base, and a fracturing component connected to the base. The fracturing component section also may include a component electrical assembly and a component fluid assembly connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section further may include a coupling plate connected to the section frame. The fracturing component section also may include one or more of a plurality of quick-connect electrical couplers or a plurality of quick-connect fluid couplers connected to a coupling plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: BJ Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Ricardo Rodriguez-Ramon, Joseph Foster
  • Publication number: 20240151129
    Abstract: Methods for initiating chemical reactions in a wellbore include delivering one or more reactive components via a carrier fluid to the wellbore. The one or more reactive components delivered to the wellbore are configured to enable one or more chemical reactions to occur. The one or more chemical reactions are carried out until a threshold volume of the one or more reactive components is delivered to the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Alhad Phatak, Garud Bindiganavale Sridhar, Douglas Pipchuk, Dmitriy Potapenko, Dean Michael Willberg, James Ernest Brown
  • Publication number: 20240151130
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating fracture faces and/or unconsolidated portions of a subterranean formation are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise: providing an aqueous alkali solution; introducing the aqueous alkali solution into at least a portion of a subterranean formation that comprises one or more fractures; contacting an aluminum component and a silicate component with the aqueous alkali solution to form a geopolymer on one or more fracture faces in the fractures; and placing a plurality of proppant particulates in the fractures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Philip D. Nguyen, Tatyana Vladimirov Khamatnurova
  • Publication number: 20240151131
    Abstract: A Subsea Diversion of a pressured Gas Entrainment from the well bore and the riser pipe by devised ‘Gas Entrainment Diversion Tubing’ (GDT) prevents well head blow out and rig-fire, wherein the giant bubbles emerging into the water is precluded to enter the air-gap, the ‘Gas Entrainment Diversion Tubing’ incorporating the Inventor devised ‘Basket-pneumosphere’ model of one way valves that prevent inflow of oceanic waters. A ‘Sea Level Gas Separator of Oil Well Effluent’ (SLGOE) unit working in conjunction instantly separates inflammable gases from the oil-gas effluent, whereas the unit's voluminous gas outlets are subject to attenuate the pressured elements (volume and pressure being inversely related). The SLGOE unit is also devised to be routinely used for oil-gas separation at the rig level, thereby facilitating weaning of flaring by oil companies. A motivating disclosure is also made regarding carbon foot print, carbon capture, and climate change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Sumathi Paturu