Flat Crest Patents (Class 285/334)
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Patent number: 12110746Abstract: A threaded joint for production of tubing includes a male element and female elements, having outer surface and inner surfaces, respectively, whose ends are configured with a trapezoidal tapered thread and with sealing surfaces, auxiliary surfaces and abutting end surfaces, which form an inner sealing assembly. The threads have characteristics described in the present disclosure. Auxiliary surfaces are provided between the sealing surfaces and the abutting end surfaces. The junction between the sealing surfaces and the auxiliary surfaces is configured in the form of a concave spherical surface on the male element and a convex spherical surface on the female element. This provides for the formation of a tight joint under high mechanical loads by virtue of improved coupling characteristics and the prevention of damage to the surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Publichnoe Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya KompaniyaInventors: Sergey Alexandrovich Rekin, Alexey Sergeevich Myslevtsev, Pavel Nikolaevich Sidorenko, Pavel Konstantinovich Ponomarenko
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Patent number: 12054994Abstract: Threaded tubular connection for the casing of hydrocarbon wells obtained by makeup of a male tool joint with a female tool joint, the connection includes in order from a free edge of the male tool joint: an inner metal-metal seal, a first threaded portion, an intermediate abutment, an intermediate metal-metal seal and a second threaded portion, the free edge being at a non-zero axial distance from the female tool joint, the threaded portions each comprising a helix equipped with a load flank, a thread crest, a stabbing flank, a thread root, such that a pitch of the load flank and a pitch of the stabbing flank of the first threaded portion, and respectively a pitch of the load flank and a pitch of the stabbing flank of the second threaded portion fulfil the following condition: SFLb1=LFLb1=SFLb2=LFLb2=SFLp1=SLFLp2=LFLp2.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Anthony Foulogne, Pierre Martin, Malic Abdeddaim, Mickael Pusard
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Patent number: 12055007Abstract: A completion assembly includes an upper liner and a lower liner, a wellbore completion component that interposes the upper and lower liners, a sliding sleeve arranged within the wellbore completion component and providing a projectile seat on an uphole end of the sliding sleeve, and a dissolvable pipe plug secured within an aperture defined in the wellbore completion component and extending at least partially through the sliding sleeve, wherein the dissolvable pipe plug holds the sliding sleeve in a first position until the pipe plug dissolves.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: NexGen Oil Tools Inc.Inventors: Dane Elliott, Alfred Moseley, Travis Jack Power
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Patent number: 12044077Abstract: A drill string including an elongate hollow main length section and a male spigot portion provided at the second end and having an externally threaded section and a non-threaded shank positioned axially intermediate the main length section and the threaded section. The shank includes a transition section positioned adjacent the main length section or a radially projecting shoulder at the second end. The transition section has an outside diameter that increases in a direction from the male spigot portion to the main length section or the shoulder. The cross-sectional shape profile of the outer surface of the transition section in the plane of the longitudinal axis has a segment of an ellipse having semi-major axis (a) and a semi-minor axis (b), wherein the ratio of the semi-major to semi-minor axes (a:b) is within the range 2b<a<8b.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Sandvik Mining and Construction Tools ABInventors: Tomas Jansson, Andreas Norman, Anders Nordberg
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Patent number: 12007045Abstract: In a threaded connection for pipe with a two-step thread construction, including intermediate shoulders, during stabbing, the internal-pressure sealing surface of the pin near its tip is prevented from contacting the intermediate shoulder of the box and thus receiving damage. LP, LB, hP and hB shown in FIG. 2 satisfy Expressions (1) and (2), provided below. ?seal is the angle of slope of the straight line connecting the two ends, as determined along the axial direction, of the internal-pressure sealing surface of the pin. Expression (3), provided below, is also satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Satoshi Maruta, Yousuke Oku
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Patent number: 11965611Abstract: Provided is a threaded pipe having a pin member connecting to a box member. The pin member contains wedge-shaped pin threads that extends in a helical direction around the outside surface of its pipe end. The pin member is tapered to result in an increasing diameter of the pin threads away from the front end of its pipe. The box member contains a wedge-shaped box thread that stretches in a helical direction around the inside surface of its pipe end. The box member is tapered to result in a decreasing diameter of the box threads away from the front end of its pipe. The pin crest of the pin member increases in width along the pin thread and the box root of the box thread decreases in width along the box thread. When assembled together, the pin thread crest increases in width at a different rate than the box thread root increase in width.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: United States Steel CorporationInventors: Alexander Barnett, Chandrashekar Garikapati, Frederick C. Bennett, Matthew Clatworthy, Keith A. Tuma
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Patent number: 11946572Abstract: A threaded tubular connection comprises a first tubular (12) component and a second tubular component (14). The first tubular component (12) includes a female portion (10) defined on an interior surface of the first tubular component. The female portion includes an inner threaded portion (16d) and an outer threaded portion (16b) which are offset radially with respect to a longitudinal axis of the first tubular component by a first shoulder (26). The second tubular component (14) includes a male portion (18) defined on an exterior surface of the second tubular component. The male portion is to be inserted into the female portion, and includes an inner threaded portion (18d) and an outer threaded portion (18b) which are offset radially with respect to a longitudinal axis of the second tubular component by a second shoulder (28). The second shoulder is to abut the first shoulder once the male portion is connected to the female portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alan Fothergill, Corey Dufrene, Satoshi Maruta
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Patent number: 11905765Abstract: To prevent fracture of a box under a tensile load without increasing the outer diameter of the box. The presently disclosed threaded joint for pipes includes a pin provided with a male thread portion at one end of a first pipe, and a box provided with a female thread portion at one end of a second pipe, where each of a plurality of thread grooves of the female thread portion has a corner portion on a load flank side and a corner portion on a stabbing flank side on a thread bottom side, a corner portion on a load flank side of a first thread groove includes a first arc portion that has a first curvature radius, and a second arc portion that has a second curvature radius, and a ratio of the second curvature radius to the first curvature radius is 3 or more.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Takano, Takamasa Kawai, Takuya Nagahama, Seigo Goto, Masaki Yoshikawa, Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
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Patent number: 11905766Abstract: A threaded tubular connection includes a box member having a female external thread, a female internal thread, and a female intermediate sealing surface between the female external thread and the female internal thread, and a pin member having a corresponding male external thread, a male internal thread, and a male intermediate sealing surface, such that male threads interlock by thread engagement with female threads, and intermediate sealing surfaces form an intermediate metal-to-metal seal when the threaded tubular connection is made up. The box member includes a minimal outer diameter at the intermediate metal-to-metal seal location, the minimal outer diameter being smaller than respectively an external and an internal outer diameter respectively being located above the female external thread and the female internal thread.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Anthony Foulogne, Pierre Martin
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Patent number: 11892106Abstract: A threaded connection for steel pipe is provided in which galling does not easily occur on any of the inner and outer threads. A threaded connection for steel pipe 1 includes a pin 10 and a box 20. The pin 10 includes: a nose 12; a tapered inner male thread 14; a tapered outer male thread 17; a pin inner sealing surface 13; a pin intermediate shoulder surface 18; and a pin intermediate sealing surface 16. The box 20 includes: a tapered inner female thread 24; a tapered outer female thread 27; a box inner sealing surface 23; a box intermediate shoulder surface 28; and a box intermediate sealing surface 26. Each of the inner male thread 14, outer male thread 17, inner female thread 24 and outer female thread 27 includes a perfect thread portion 141, 171, 241, 271. Each perfect thread portion includes an inner end located relatively close to the tip of the pin 10 and an outer end located relatively close to the end of the pin 10 opposite to its tip.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Keita Inose, Hikari Nakano, Masaaki Sugino
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Patent number: 11879297Abstract: The disclosure relates to a thread formation and to a downhole tool comprising a hollow tubular pipe section having an end on which the thread formation is provided. The thread formation comprises a first thread having a first thread start and a second thread having a second thread start, wherein the first thread start is operatively rotationally in advance of the second thread start. Accordingly, the first thread is configured to engage at least partially with a complementary thread formation on another downhole tool before the second thread engages with the complementary thread formation.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: REFLEX INSTRUMENTS ASIA PACIFIC PTY LIMITEDInventor: Owen Schicker
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Patent number: 11828390Abstract: Threaded tubular connection comprising a tubular female end extending from a main body of a first tubular member, and a tubular male end extending from a main body of a second tubular member, such that the tubular female end comprises a machined outer cylindrical surface close to the female free end having a first outer diameter and a second machined outer cylindrical surface above a threaded portion of the female end, a second outer diameter of the second outer cylindrical surface being bigger than the first outer diameter.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Benoit Briane, Alan Fothergill, Anthony Foulogne, Pierre Martin
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Patent number: 11772113Abstract: A valve block assembly for a bottle attachment apparatus for handling liquids has a valve block, an intake valve insert and/or an exhaust valve insert, and a valve receptacle assigned to the respective valve insert. The valve insert is inserted in a replaceable and sealing manner in the valve receptacle. The valve insert has a stop portion, a fastening portion distinct therefrom and a sealing portion distinct from both. The associated valve receptacle has stop, fastening, and sealing portions matching the equivalent portions of the valve insert. When the valve insert is installed correctly both the stop portions and the sealing portions bear on one another in a planar manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: BRAND GMBH + CO KGInventors: Günter Hochholzer, Markus Kurz
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Patent number: 11774014Abstract: A disclosed threaded connection for steel pipes includes a pin and a box. The pin includes, in order from a front end of the pin toward a pipe body of the pin, an annular shoulder surface, an annular sealing surface located adjacent to the shoulder surface, and a male thread part. The box includes, in order from a pipe body of the box toward a front end of the box, an annular shoulder surface, an annular sealing surface located adjacent to the shoulder surface, and a female thread part. The pin shoulder surface and the box shoulder surface incline from a plane perpendicular to a pipe axis in a direction of screwing the pin. A diameter of an inner circumferential edge of the pin shoulder surface is smaller than a diameter of an inner circumferential edge of the box shoulder surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Keita Inose, Hikari Nakano, Masaaki Sugino
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Patent number: 11732544Abstract: A completion assembly includes an upper liner and a lower liner, a wellbore completion component that interposes the upper and lower liners, a dissolvable pipe plug secured within an aperture defined in the wellbore completion component, and a dissolvable projectile seat arranged adjacent the wellbore completion component.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: NexGen Oil Tools Inc.Inventors: Dane Elliott, Alfred Moseley, Travis Jack Power
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Patent number: 11614185Abstract: A threaded joint for casing pipes and production pipes has a threaded portion, and a metal-metal type sealing assembly structure in the form of a combination of sealing elements which provide 100% effective functioning of the joint under compression and tension, inter alia under the effect of internal and external fluid pressure, by observing the size ratio criteria of a ball-and-cone type seal, in which a radial sealing surface has two consecutively arranged toroidal surfaces which, in the event of axial contact between flanges, form, together with a mating sealing surface of a female member, two seals which remain tight under any combination of loads.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: JOINT STOCK COMPANY “PERVOURALSK PIPE PLANT” (JSC “PNTZ”)Inventors: Nikita Evgenyevich Glukhih, Sergey Nikolaevich Barabanov, Artem Vladimirovich Zaboyarkin, Sergei Vladimirovich Alexandrov, Vladislav Vladimirovich Golovin, Vasily Alexandrovich Morgunov, Catalin Teodoriu, Javier Holzmann, Berdasco, Robert Van Helvoirt
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Patent number: 11598453Abstract: A threaded connection for a steel pipe includes a box which is an opening end of a second pipe and a truncated cone shaped pin which is an end of a first pipe and is inserted into the box, wherein the pin includes a male thread portion which is a tapered thread and a seal portion which includes a tapered surface, the box includes a female thread portion which is a tapered thread and a seal portion which includes a tapered surface, and in a state before make-up between the pin and the box, a minimum diameter of the tapered surface of the pin is smaller than a maximum diameter of the tapered surface of the box.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Masaaki Sugino, Tatsuya Yamamoto, Yukihiro Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11566730Abstract: A drill pipe comprises a drill pipe body and a tool joint that comprises a rotary shoulder connection is disclosed. The rotary shoulder connection comprises: a box connection, wherein the box connection has a box outer radius, a box counter bore radius and a box inner radius, and box threads having a box thread form cut along a box taper; a pin connection, wherein the pin connection has a pin outer radius, a pin cylinder radius and a pin nose radius, and pin threads having a pin thread form cut along a pin taper to align with the box threads inside the box connection; and a primary shoulder connection comprising: a primary box shoulder that is angled or curved; and a primary pin shoulder that is angled or curved. Methods of using the drill pipe are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Black Diamond Oilfield Rentals LLCInventors: Christopher M. Biggerstaff, Charles G. Kibbe
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Patent number: 11549620Abstract: A screw joint in which an efficient screw length of a joint portion is achieved. This screw joint is for an oil well pipe of an integral type and includes: (i) a pin that is provided with a male screw portion which is a male taper screw, at one end of a steel pipe; and (ii) a box that is provided with a female screw portion which is a female taper screw fitted to the male screw portion, at one end of the steel pipe, in which a structure, in which the pin and the box are in metal contact with each other to seal a fluid, is provided at least at one place of a seal portion on an outer peripheral surface side of a pipe end side of the pin and a seal portion on an inner peripheral surface side of a pipe end side of the box.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takamasa Kawai, Masaki Yoshikawa, Jun Takano, Takuya Nagahama, Haruhiko Seki
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Patent number: 11493154Abstract: A threaded tubular connection comprises a first tubular component and a second tubular component. The first tubular component includes a female portion defined on an interior surface of the first tubular component. The female portion includes an inner threaded portion and an outer threaded portion which are offset radially with respect to a longitudinal axis of the first tubular component by a first shoulder. The second tubular component includes a male portion defined on an exterior surface of the second tubular component. The male portion is to be inserted into the female portion, and includes an inner threaded portion and an outer threaded portion which are offset radially with respect to a longitudinal axis of the second tubular component by a second shoulder. The second shoulder is to abut the first shoulder once the male portion is connected to the female portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Daly Daly, Alan Ford Fothergill, Sebastien Roger Claude Villert
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Patent number: 11448345Abstract: A non-frustoconical coupling provides a mechanical connection used in fluid transport for hydrocarbon recovery operations.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Inventors: Halit Hussein Dilber, Michael Keith Nations, Jr.
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Patent number: 11420252Abstract: A punch pin assembly includes a punch rod, a punch pin and a punch pin connection rod connected therebetween. A heat-conducting medium conveying loop is arranged in the punch rod and the punch pin connection rod. The heat-conducting medium conveying loop communicates with the outside of the punch rod separately through a first medium port and a second medium port which are formed in the punch rod.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: CITIC DICASTAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Chuan Dai, Jiansheng Wang, Yachun Wan, Yang Han, Hongyin Zhang, Bo Tian, Gang Zhao, Zhi Chen
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Patent number: 11391399Abstract: The disclosed threaded connection for steel pipes includes a pin including a tapered male thread part and a shoulder part, and a box including a tapered female thread part and a shoulder part. In a made up state in which the shoulder parts are in contact with each other, clearances are provided between crests of the male thread part and roots of the female thread part. At a longitudinal section that includes a pipe axis of the threaded connection, the crests of the male thread part are formed in a convex curve that is tangent to both first corner portions which are formed in an arc that connect the crests and load flanks, and second corner portions which are formed in an arc that connect the crests and stabbing flanks. A solid lubricant coating is provided on the surface of the male thread part.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventor: Masaaki Sugino
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Patent number: 11371293Abstract: A connection includes a first tubular member having a first screw threadform defined by a first plurality of crests, roots, and flanks, where each flank separates each crest from each root. The connection also includes a second tubular member having a second screw threadform defined by a second plurality of crests, roots, and flanks, where each flank separates each crest from each root. The crests and roots are substantially axial to the tubular members and the flanks are substantially radial to the tubular members. The first tubular member and the second tubular member are configured to connect when the first threadform engages with the second threadform. Thread compound relief spaces are formed between the first plurality of crests and the second plurality of roots and between the second plurality of crests and the first plurality of roots when the first and second tubular members connect.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Hydril CompanyInventor: Alejandro Juarez
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Patent number: 11371292Abstract: A connection includes a first tubular member having a first screw threadform defined by a first plurality of crests, roots, and flanks, where each flank separates each crest from each root. The connection also includes a second tubular member having a second screw threadform defined by a second plurality of crests, roots, and flanks, where each flank separates each crest from each root. The crests and roots are substantially axial to the tubular members and the flanks are substantially radial to the tubular members. The first tubular member and the second tubular member are configured to connect when the first threadform engages with the second threadform. Thread compound relief spaces are formed between the first plurality of crests and the second plurality of roots when the first and second tubular members connect.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: HYDRIL COMPANYInventor: Alejandro Juarez
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Patent number: 11332982Abstract: A double shoulder threaded tool joint connection includes a pin with external threads formed between a pin external shoulder and a pin internal shoulder, the pin including a nose section between the pin internal shoulder and the pin external thread and a box with internal threads formed between a box external shoulder and a box internal shoulder. The internal threads and the external threads are arranged and designed for connection with each other so that the box and the pin are connected with a common center-line and with a primary seal formed by the pin external shoulder forced against the box external shoulder and a secondary seal formed between the pin internal shoulder forced again the box internal shoulder. The invention may be applied to any threaded joint.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Coastal Pipe USA, L.L.C.Inventors: Cain Pacheco, Michael Sanders
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Patent number: 11313401Abstract: The disclosure provides a bolt including a main body, a head portion and a thread portion. The main body has a central axis. The head portion connects the main body. The thread portion is connected to the main body and runs around the central axis. The thread portion has a bearing surface facing toward the head portion. The bearing surface is a continuous curved surface or has an inflection point. The bearing surface includes a concave curved surface, a convex curved surface and a flank surface. The concave curved surface connects the main body. The convex curved surface is located further away from the main body than the concave curved surface. One side of the convex curved surface connects the concave curved surface, and another side of the convex curved surface connects the flank surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: CHUN YU WORKS & CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu-Ren Chu, Chih-Lung Hsieh
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Patent number: 11300233Abstract: A threaded connection for steel pipes is provided that exhibits improved sealability against the external pressure while maintaining the sealability against the internal pressure. A threaded connection for steel pipes includes a pin and a box. The pin includes a nose, a tapered inner male thread, a tapered outer male thread, a pin inner sealing surface, a pin intermediate shoulder surface, a pin intermediate sealing surface, and a pin annular portion. The box includes a recess corresponding to the nose, a tapered inner female thread, a tapered outer female thread, a box inner sealing surface, a box intermediate shoulder surface, a box intermediate sealing surface, and a box annular portion. The threaded connection satisfies expressions (1) and (2), provided below. ?1 is a taper slope of the inner male thread, and ?2 is a taper slope of the outer male thread. ? ? 1 > ?2 , and ( 1 ) 0.5 ? L ? ? 1 ? ?1 L ? ? 2 ? ?2 ? 1.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas FranceInventors: Keita Inose, Masaaki Sugino, Hikari Nakano
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Patent number: 11248725Abstract: A threaded connection connecting a pair of pipes includes a pin and a box. The pin has a male thread on its outer diameter. The box has a female thread on its inner diameter, the female thread corresponding to the male thread. The male thread includes constant-thread-width and varying-thread-width portions. The constant-thread-width portion has a constant thread-groove width. The varying-thread-width portion has a thread-groove width equal to or larger than the groove width of the constant-thread-width portion and gradually increasing, from the constant-thread-width portion toward the tip of the pin. The female thread includes constant-thread-width and varying-thread-width portions. The constant-thread-width portion has a constant thread-ridge width. The varying-thread-width portion has a thread-ridge width equal to or larger than the thread-ridge width of the constant-thread-width portion and gradually increasing from the constant-thread-width portion toward the center of the box.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas FranceInventors: Satoshi Maruta, Michihiko Iwamoto
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Patent number: 11204115Abstract: A tubular member for threadably engaging another tubular member to form a tubular string includes a first end including a helical female thread formed in an outer surface of the tubular member, wherein the female thread includes a slot extending radially inwards from the outer surface, and a root extending radially inwards from the slot, wherein the root has a maximum width that is greater than a maximum width of the slot, a second end opposite the first end and including a helical male thread formed on an inner surface of the tubular member, wherein the male thread includes a shank extending radially outwards from the inner surface, and a notch extending radially outwards from the shank, wherein the notch has a maximum width that is greater than a maximum width of the shank.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.Inventor: John W. Mitchell
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Patent number: 11199056Abstract: An internally threaded bit for percussion drilling is provided, which has thread roots wider than the thread crests. A single drill bit, configured according to the present invention, can be connected to a variety of rods, having differing crest widths in their male threads. The invention enables the service life of the rods to be optimized to suit the drilling conditions at hand, without the need to manufacture and keep in inventory a correspondingly large variety of drill bits. The bit of the invention exhibits a reduced rate of ringing off, and can accept drill rods having a range of crest widths.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Inventor: James Jing Yao
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Patent number: 11156313Abstract: A mechanical connector, including a telescopically assembled mechanical connector, is provided with one or more sets of threads on substantially matching frustoconical surfaces of a pin and a box of the connector. Thread generatrix angles on the loaded and unloaded sides of the threads are measured to normals to the shared axes of the box and of the pin. This invention introduces mismatching of the generatrix angles along the interacting surfaces on the loaded and/or unloaded sides of the threads, which result in slight interference fit(s) along the thread surfaces. The effect is more even distribution of the bearing loads on the threads, reductions in the maximum shear loading and more uniform bending of the threads. Already good leak resistance of the connector can be additionally improved. The above modifications can be introduced to traditional connectors and to connectors designed to transfer high torsional loads.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Inventor: Krzysztof Jan Wajnikonis
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Patent number: 11154936Abstract: A cutting tool may include a flow path and a sealing part. The flow path may include an inflow port and an outflow port. The sealing part may be located continuously with the flow path and may include a male screw and a female screw. Screw threads in the male screw may include a first screw thread. Screw grooves in the female screw may include a first screw groove. A top portion of the first screw thread may be in contact with a bottom portion of the first screw groove.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Youji Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11149882Abstract: A threaded connection includes a pin including a wedge male thread having a varying-thread-width portion and a box including a wedge female thread having a varying-thread-width portion. The threaded connection is constructed such that, when both stab flanks and load flanks of the male thread of the pin contact the box, the shoulder on the pin is not in contact with the shoulder on the pin, and, with a further rotation in the make-up direction, the shoulder on the pin is capable of contacting the shoulder on the pin before the threads (i.e. male and female threads) yield.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas FranceInventors: Satoshi Maruta, Michihiko Iwamoto
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Patent number: 11143337Abstract: A threaded connection for steel pipe with improved sealability against the internal and external pressures is provided. A threaded connection 1 includes a pin 10 and a box 20. The pin 10 includes a male thread 11, a nose 12, a pin shoulder surface 13, and a pin sealing surface 14. The box 20 includes a female thread 21, a box shoulder surface 23, and a box sealing surface 24. The box sealing surface 24 has a seal point SP on the taper surface 242 located at the midpoint thereof as determined along the direction of the pipe axis CL. The distance LSP between the tip of the nose 12 and the seal point SP as measured in the direction of pipe axis CL is 13 mm or larger. The shoulder angle ? between the pin or box shoulder surface 13 or 23 and a plane VP perpendicular to the pipe axis CL is 2 to 13 degrees. The ratio TB/TP of the wall thickness TB of the box to the wall thickness TP of the pin 10 as measured at the seal point SP is 1.7 or higher.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas FranceInventors: Yousuke Oku, Masaaki Sugino
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Patent number: 11142960Abstract: High sealing performance is provided in a threaded connection used for pipes for oil wells with large wall thickness and with a connection efficiency smaller than 1. A threaded connection (10) connects pipes for oil wells (1). The threaded connection (10) includes two pins (11) and a tubular coupling. Each of the pins (11) is provided on an end of the pipe for oil wells (1) and is in continuity with the pipe body (12), which has a wall thickness not smaller than 12 mm. The coupling (2) includes two boxes (21) and a recess portion (22). The box (21) is provided on both ends of the coupling (2). The recess portion (22) has a length not smaller than 10 mm. The threaded connection (10) has a connection efficiency smaller than 1.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas FranceInventors: Keita Inose, Masaaki Sugino, Takashi Okada
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Patent number: 11067205Abstract: A threaded connection for steel pipe is provided that prevents cross-threading and provides good compression load resistance. A threaded connection (10) includes a pin (30) and a box (40). The male thread stabbing flank (34) of the pin (30) includes two male thread stabbing flank portions (341) and (342). The male thread stabbing flank portion (341) is located farther from the pipe axis (X) of the steel pipe (20) and has a stabbing flank angle (?1) of ?10 to 15 degrees. The male thread stabbing flank portion (342) is located closer to the pipe axis (X) and has a stabbing flank angle (?2) of 20 to 60 degrees. The female thread stabbing flank (44) of the box (40) includes two female thread stabbing flank portions (441) and (442). The female thread stabbing flank portion (441) is located farther from the pipe axis (X) and has a stabbing flank angle (?1) equal to the stabbing flank angle (?1) of the male thread stabbing flank portion (341).Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Michihiko Iwamoto, Yusuke Takeda, Yasuhiro Kochi, Satoshi Maruta, Yusuke Toyota
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Patent number: 11054068Abstract: In a connection structure for fire extinguishing system piping in which a male piping member is connected to a connection opening portion of a joint by screwing a male thread and a female thread together, the male piping member includes a joint cylinder having a protruding portion that is inserted deeper into the connection opening portion than the female thread. Each male piping member and the connection opening portion includes a step portion. The connection structure further includes an indicator that engages the step portions and in a state in which the male piping member and the connection opening portion are connected together. At least one of the male piping member and the connection opening portion includes an unmountable portion that has an outside diameter different from an inside diameter of the indicator and cannot be engaged by the indicator.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: SENJU SPRINKLER CO., LTD.Inventors: Hisayoshi Ohkoshi, Yukihiro Kon
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Patent number: 11035502Abstract: A threaded connection having a straight central axis, where the pin threads and the box threads are arranged such that when the connection is fully made up, the pin roots and box crests come into at least partial interference substantially in line with a pin root taper plane and a box crest taper plane, and wherein the angles of the pin root taper plane and box crest taper plane allow for reduction of axial compressive forces on the plurality of pin threads and plurality of box threads along the central axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: MARUBENI-ITOCHU TUBULARS AMERICA INC.Inventor: Cody Allen DeHart
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Patent number: 11015746Abstract: A threaded connection that provides high sealing performance is provided. A threaded connection (10) includes a pin (1) and a box (2). An inner male thread (13) of the pin (1) includes a parallel portion (131). The parallel portion (131) is located at an end portion of the inner male thread (13) adjacent to the pin inner sealing surface (11), and has thread roots parallel to the pipe axis. An inner female thread (23) of the box (2) includes a tapered portion (231). The thread height in the tapered portion (231) is larger than that in the parallel portion (131). Da<Db is satisfied, where Da is the difference in diameter between adjacent thread crests (231a) in the tapered portion (231) in a longitudinal cross section of the pin (1) and box (2) as found when the connection is not made up, and Db is the difference between the diameter of the thread root (131a) in the parallel portion (13) and the maximum diameter of the pin inner sealing surface (11).Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Vallourec Oil and Gas FranceInventors: Satoshi Maruta, Yousuke Oku
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Patent number: 10968716Abstract: A wellhead includes a wellhead body and a locking end coupled to the wellhead body. The locking end includes an exterior surface with an exterior locking profile. The exterior locking profile includes an exterior groove formed between exterior stab and load flanks on the exterior surface. The locking end also includes an interior surface having an interior locking profile. The interior locking profile includes an interior groove formed between interior stab and load flanks on the interior surface. At least one of the exterior groove or the interior groove is a relief groove that undercuts at least one of the respective stab or load flank. The relief groove corresponds to a portion of the contour of an ellipse intersecting at least a portion of the respective stab or load flank, and an axis of the ellipse is at a tilted angle with respect to an axis of the wellhead.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Vetco Gray, LLCInventors: Baozhi Zhu, Joseph Pallini
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Patent number: 10935004Abstract: A pitch tube includes a first tube part and a second tube part. The first tube part and the second tube part are detachably connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignees: ZF Friedrichshafen AG, ZF Wind Power Antwerpen N.V.Inventors: Steffen Fischer, Dirk Strasser
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Patent number: 10927709Abstract: A gas turbine includes a shaft, a turbine coupled with the shaft for rotation with the shaft, and a bearing coupled with the shaft to facilitate rotation of the shaft. A bearing nut is adjacent the bearing on the shaft. The turbine has a first load path and the bearing has a second load path. The bearing nut exerts a force on the bearing such that the first load path is not aligned with the second load path relative to a central axis of the gas turbine engine. A method of assembling a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Marc J. Muldoon, Gregory E. Reinhardt
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Patent number: 10920913Abstract: A method of converting a tubular having NC46 connections to CET®43 connections. A method of applying a CET®43 thread to a pin connection or a box connection or both. A box connection and a pin connection of the tubular are machined and a CET®43 thread applied to the box connection and the pin connection.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: ROTARY CONNECTIONS INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventor: Milton Hruschak
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Patent number: 10844669Abstract: A threaded joint for joining tubes used especially in the field of OCTG (Oil Country Tubular Goods), such as pipes in gas or oil production and/or casings when drilling wells can include a pin and a coupling, or box, having an end surface not facing against any surface of the pin when the joint is made-up. Following make-up of the joint, first sealing surfaces of the pin and box mate to form an internal metal-to-metal seal, and second sealing surfaces of the pin and box mate to form an external metal-to-metal seal, where the internal and external seals are defined by contact between one toroidal surface and one frusto-conical surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2010Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: TENARIS CONNECTIONS B.V.Inventors: Gaston Mazzaferro, Gabriel E. Carcagno, Tatsuo Ono, Nestor J. Santi
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Patent number: 10738917Abstract: A set for producing a threaded connection, includes first, second, third, and fourth tubular component with axis of revolution, the first tubular component including at each of its ends a first and a second threaded zone provided on the inner peripheral surface of the component, the second tubular component including at each of its ends a third and a fourth threaded zone provided on the outer peripheral surface of the component, the third tubular component including at one of its ends a fifth and a sixth threaded zone respectively provided on the inner and outer peripheral surface of the component, the fourth tubular component including at one of its ends a seventh and an eighth threaded zone respectively provided on the inner and outer peripheral surface of the component. The first and sixth, third and fifth, second and eighth, fourth and seventh threaded zones cooperate with one another on makeup.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Pierre Bernard Martin, Sebastien Colin, Xavier Mencaglia, Karine Ruffin
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Patent number: 10724566Abstract: Thread profiles providing multi-point contact improving the vibration resistance of the threaded fastener, and thereby greatly reducing the need for fastener coatings, such as nylon patches. In various embodiments, the threaded faster may have a threaded portion configured to engage two or three points of a mating thread, and the threaded portion has a thread defined by a crest portion, a leading flank, at least one root portion, and a trailing flank, all of which may be oriented at angle relative to the normal axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Infastech Intellectual Properties Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Cheng Siong Phua, Senthil Kumaran Kothandaraman
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Patent number: 10711533Abstract: A threaded pipe joint, when acted upon by a tensile load, does not break on the female thread-side of a first thread section of a second thread series that extends from an intermediate shoulder. The threaded pipe joint reliably undergoes tensile rupture on the female thread-side of a first thread section of a first thread series, which is the original critical cross-section site. The threaded pipe joint is configured so that when the male and female threads of the intermediate shoulder are screwed together, the load flank-side thread gaps L1G and L2G of a first thread series, which is the radially inward thread series, and a second thread series, which is the radially outward thread series, on the two sides of the intermediate shoulder always satisfy the relationship L1G<L2G.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: JFE Steel CorporationInventors: Masaki Yoshikawa, Kazunari Takahashi, Taro Kanayama, Jun Takano, Takamasa Kawai, Tsuyoshi Yoneyama
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Patent number: 10646928Abstract: A screwing tool includes a tool head and a tool shaft having an external thread. A first support section is disposed between the tool head and the external thread, and a second support section is disposed between the external thread and a free end of the tool shaft. The second support section has radially outwardly projecting supporting elements that are disposed at a distance from each other in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KGInventor: Franz Haimer
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Patent number: 10612702Abstract: A threaded tubular connection is provided. The threaded tubular connection includes a pin having external threads, a pin seal surface, and a pin torque shoulder at a free end and a box for receiving the pin, the box having internal threads for interacting with the pin threads, a box seal surface for contacting the pin seal surface and a box torque shoulder for contacting the pin torque shoulder. The pin and box define a longitudinal axis. The pin torque shoulder has a first pin shoulder surface and a second pin shoulder surface, the first pin shoulder surface intersects an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis at a first angle and the second pin shoulder surface intersects the perpendicular axis at a second angle. The box torque shoulder has a first box shoulder surface and a second box shoulder surface. The first box shoulder surface intersects an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis at a third angle and the second box shoulder surface intersects the perpendicular axis at a fourth angle.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL TUBULAR PRODUCTS LUXEMBOURG S.A.Inventors: Merle E. Evans, Jeroen Stijn Juliaan Van Wittenberghe