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20150086718 | PIPE DOPING APPARATUS - An apparatus and associated methods for an automated pipe doping apparatus. The apparatus may include a pump fluidly coupled to a reservoir and a dope manifold, the pump positioned to pump pipe dope from the reservoir to the dope manifold; an ejector coupled to the dope manifold, the ejector positioned to supply a fixed volume of pipe dope from the dope manifold to a dope distribution line; and a pipe dope applicator, the pipe dope applicator fluidly coupled to the dope distribution line positioned to deposit pipe dope on a threaded connection. In some embodiments, the pipe dope applicator may be a fan-pattern nozzle. In other embodiments, the pipe dope applicator may be a mold-type applicator. In other embodiments, the pipe dope applicator may be a brush-type applicator. | 03-26-2015 |
20150090463 | AUTOMATED PIPE SLIPS - An automated pipe slips includes a pipe slips body having a generally frustoconically tapered inner wall. A plurality of wedges is positioned to slide along the tapered inner wall and may be hydraulically driven. In some embodiments, the wedges alternate between long and short wedges, such that only long wedges are used to engage a tubular member having a small diameter, and both long and short wedges are used to engage a tubular member having a large diameter. In some embodiments, the automated pipe slips may include a centralizer assembly. In some embodiments, the automated pipe slips may include a wiper assembly. | 04-02-2015 |
20150096764 | INTERLOCK PIPE CONNECTION - An interlock pipe joint includes a first and second tubular member. In some embodiments, an interrupted thread box and pin make up the interlock pipe joint. In other embodiments, a stepped interrupted thread box and pin make up the interlock pipe joint. In other embodiments, a twist-lock box and pin make up the interlock pipe joint. In some embodiments, an external or internal bushing is provided. In a method of operation, the first tubular member is inserted into the second tubular member by an axial insertion followed by a rotation to lock the pipe joint. | 04-09-2015 |
20150101826 | AUTOMATED ROUGHNECK - An automated roughneck may include a backup tong and a makeup tong. The makeup tong and backup tong may be selectively movable relative to one another. The makeup tong and backup tong may include spinner and gripper assemblies respectively adapted to make up and break out threaded connections. The automated roughneck may be configurable to be removable from the drill string in a lateral direction. | 04-16-2015 |
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20120067642 | Multi-Operational Multi-Drilling System - A system including a setback and racking system and a set of wellbay accesses, at least a portion of the setback and racking system positioned at an elevation lower than the elevation of the wellbay accesses. A system including a centrally located setback and racking system, a set of wellbay accesses, and at least one peripheral skidding system, wherein the setback and racking system is positioned at least partially below the elevation of the peripheral skidding system. A system including at least one peripheral skidding system and a set of wellbay accesses positioned along a wellbay access perimeter surrounding a central focus that is not an integral part of the peripheral skidding system. A method of drilling by aligning each of at least two drilling modules with a respective wellbay access via a peripheral skidding system and operating at least two drilling modules at least partially simultaneously. | 03-22-2012 |
20140202769 | X-Y-Z Pipe Racker for a Drilling Rig - Apparatus and methods include an x-direction support structure extending in the same direction as a line extending between a well center and a V-door on a drilling rig and include a y-direction support structure moveable along the x-direction support structure. The y-direction support structure extends on a drilling rig in a direction transverse to the line extending between the well center and the V-door on the drilling rig. A racker device is carried by the y-direction support structure and is configured to connect to and carry a tubular stand used in a well drilling process, the racker device being moveable along the y-direction support structure from a position inline with the line extending between the well center and the V-door on the drilling rig to a position offline from the line to provide space for additional drilling processes along the line extending between the well center and the V-door on the drilling rig. | 07-24-2014 |
20140216815 | MULTI-OPERATIONAL MULTI-DRILLING SYSTEM - A system comprising a drilling platform having a central focus, a plurality of wellbay accesses positioned along a wellbay access perimeter surrounding the central focus, a drilling module, and a peripheral skidding system defining a skidding perimeter surrounding the central focus. Each of the plurality of wellbay accesses is associated with a wellbay substantially therebelow. The peripheral skidding system is operable to align the drilling module with one or more of the plurality of wellbay accesses, wherein the peripheral skidding system is positioned at an elevation higher than the plurality of wellbay accesses. | 08-07-2014 |
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20080248386 | ELECTRODES WITH RAISED PATTERNS - Provided is an electrode for an electrochemical cell that includes a current collector, and an active material in electrical contact with the current collector, wherein the electrode has a raised pattern as well as a method of making and using the same and also for electrochemical cells incorporating the same. | 10-09-2008 |
20090176148 | THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS - Provided are systems and methods that generally relate to passive dual-phase thermal management for rechargeable electrochemical cells. The provided systems and methods can include a nonaqueous heat-transfer medium such as a fluorinated carbon fluid. Fluorinated carbon fluids such hydrofluoroethers can be useful in the provided systems. | 07-09-2009 |
20100026240 | LITHIUM ION BATTERY PACK CHARGING SYSTEM AND DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A lithium ion battery pack charging system comprises a lithium ion battery pack having positive and negative terminals and comprising a plurality of lithium ion cells connected in series and in electrical communication with the positive and negative terminals. Each of the plurality of lithium ion cells comprises an anode, a cathode, and electrolyte composition comprising a redox shuttle and a lithium salt at least partially dissolved in solvent. A charger in electrical communication with the positive and negative terminals is capable of charging the lithium ion battery pack at a first charge rate and a second lesser charge rate. The system further comprises a charger controller capable of monitoring input data and switching the charger from the first rate to the second changes based on the input data. A device comprising the lithium ion battery pack charging system is also disclosed. | 02-04-2010 |
20100028784 | ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITION, LITHIUM-CONTAINING ELECTROCHEMICAL CELL, BATTERY PACK, AND DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - A nonflammable electrolyte composition comprises: a homogenous solvent mixture and a lithium salt dissolved therein. The homogenous solvent mixture comprises a cyclic carbonate and a highly fluorinated compound selected from the group consisting of highly fluorinated acyclic carbonates, CF | 02-04-2010 |
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20080300758 | DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE AND METHOD - A method of altering a drive parameter of a machine having a drive system that is configured to operate a left side of the machine independently of the right side of the machine. The method includes entering, by a user, a drive parameter alteration mode by actuating a first input, and actuating a second input to alter one or more parameters associated with a controller of the machine. | 12-04-2008 |
20080300759 | DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE AND METHOD - A method of altering a drive parameter of a machine having a drive system that is configured to operate a left side of the machine independently of the right side of the machine. The method includes entering, by a user, a drive parameter alteration mode by actuating a first input, and actuating a second input to alter one or more parameters associated with a controller of the machine. | 12-04-2008 |
20120283915 | DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE AND METHOD - A method of altering a drive parameter of a machine having a drive system that is configured to operate a left side of the machine independently of the right side of the machine. The method includes entering, by a user, a drive parameter alteration mode by actuating a first input, and actuating a second input to alter one or more parameters associated with a controller of the machine. | 11-08-2012 |
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20130046449 | FUEL OPTIMIZATION DISPLAY - The present invention is an apparatus and method for guiding the driver of a vehicle in selecting an accelerator pedal position and transmission gear to improve a score. The score may be a weighted average of a fuel economy score and a drivability score. A curve showing the best score for each gear may be shown on a display as a function of accelerator pedal and transmission gear number, along with the current accelerator pedal and gear number of the vehicle. The driver may improve the score by changing to an accelerator pedal and/or gear selection that is closer to the curve. The curve may be calculated, using a model based on forces and torques upon the vehicle, from data acquired by monitoring the vehicle and/or from external sources. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046466 | Selecting a Route to Optimize Fuel Efficiency for a Given Vehicle and a Given Driver - The present invention is an apparatus and method for optimizing fuel consumption. A physical dynamics model may be used to simulate a vehicle being driven by a driver along a virtual route, possibly under specified weather conditions. A score for a route may be calculated from estimations, based on the simulation, of fuel efficiency, vehicle drivability, and/or time for completing the route. Routes may be configured from components through a user interface. Scores for the routes from simulations may be compared to select an optimum route. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046526 | Selecting a Vehicle to Optimize Fuel Efficiency for a Given Route and a Given Driver - The present invention is an apparatus and method for optimizing fuel consumption. A physical dynamics model may be used to simulate a vehicle being driven by a driver along a virtual route, possibly under specified weather conditions. A score for the vehicle may be calculated from estimations, based on the simulation, of fuel efficiency, vehicle drivability, and/or time for completing the route. Simulated (“virtual”) vehicles may be configured from components through a user interface. Scores for the vehicles may be compared to select an optimum vehicle. | 02-21-2013 |
20140107912 | FACTOR COST TIME SERIES TO OPTIMIZE DRIVERS AND VEHICLES: METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and system for analyzing and improving driver and vehicle performance are described. Detailed vehicle data, including high frequency time series data, which was collected during a trip, is obtained, as well as external data regarding trip route and environment. Using the data and a model of the physics of the vehicle, driver and vehicle time series may be obtained for the trip. These time series may allocate fuel consumption to various factor costs relating to the driver (e.g., rate of acceleration, choice of gear) and to the vehicle (e.g., choice of engine, aerodynamic improvements). From trip simulations run with virtual drivers, an optimal (relative to some criterion) virtual driver (i.e., control choices) can be obtained. Simulations with the optimal driver can find an optimal vehicle from a set of virtual vehicles. Losses due to driver behavior and to vehicle configuration can be computed by comparisons, and alternatives suggested. | 04-17-2014 |
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20110010130 | HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH PREDICTED DIAGNOSTIC INDICATORS - A system for monitoring the health of a component includes a memory configured to store a health management system for evaluating the health of the component. The health management system includes a first prognostic module, a first diagnostic module, a first failure mode module, and a first functional module. A processor is coupled to the memory and configured to retrieve the health management system from the memory; receive a first prognostic indicator associated with the health of the component; determine a first predicted diagnostic indicator based on the prognostic indicator with the prognostic module; determine a first failure mode probability based on the first predicted diagnostic indicator with the diagnostic module; determine a first failure mode vector based on the first failure mode probability with the failure mode module; and generate a first functional output based on the first failure mode vector with the first functional mode module. | 01-13-2011 |
20110103383 | TWO DIMENSIONAL LOCATION TRANSPARENCY OF SOFTWARE SERVICES - Provided are methods and systems distributing a data message to an unknown destination device across at least one spatial boundary and at least one administrative domain boundary from an originating device. The system includes at least one distributor module that exists within each administrative domain of a network through which the data message may originate, may terminate or may traverses in route from the originating device to the unknown destination device. Each administrative domain within each of a plurality of equipment platforms has at least one distributor module. The system also includes a domain bridge spanning the at least one administrative domain boundary within an equipment platform of the plurality through which the data message traverses in route to the unknown destination device. The system operates using a network discovery service whereby an advertisement is published for a specific type of data by the unknown destination device. The advertisement is promulgated throughout the network. Each distributor module in the network acts a surrogate for the unknown destination device by accepting the data and relaying it to another surrogate until it arrives at the destination device. The system allows the data to pass through both spatial and administrative barriers automatically. | 05-05-2011 |
20110191635 | NOISY MONITOR DETECTION AND INTERMITTENT FAULT ISOLATION - A method of detecting and diagnosing system faults, includes detecting the noisy status of a monitor during operations and incorporating a quantified monitor uncertainty level to support fault isolation reasoning. A sequential probability ratio test is used to statistically test the noisy status of a monitor and Shannon's entropy theory is used to quantify the uncertainty levels of the monitor to support the use of the monitor values in fault isolation. | 08-04-2011 |
20130173329 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE SOLUTION TO THE JOINT PROBLEM OF PARTS ORDER SCHEDULING AND MAINTENANCE PLAN GENERATION FOR FIELD MAINTENANCE - Methods and apparatus are provided for selecting a maintenance plan such that the cost of the maintenance plan is the lowest or near the lowest. The method comprises receiving a set of maintenance actions, wherein one of the repair actions is likely to repair the failure mode. The set of maintenance actions is sequenced in the increasing order of their waiting times. Each maintenance action has an associated cost equal to a waiting time cost, an execution time cost and a material cost, wherein the waiting time of each maintenance action is the time required to requisition and receive material required to perform the maintenance action. The method also constructs a maintenance plan comprising a first requisition and a second requisition by assigning each of the sequence of maintenance actions to one of the first or the second requisition. | 07-04-2013 |
20130198556 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING A NEAR OPTIMAL MAINTENANCE PLAN - Methods and apparatus are provided for determining a lowest total cost maintenance plan. The method comprises receiving a sequence of maintenance actions in an order of a waiting time for each maintenance action, wherein one of the maintenance actions is likely to repair the failure mode. Each maintenance action has an associated cost equal to a waiting time cost, an execution time cost and a material cost, wherein the waiting time of each maintenance action is the time required to requisition and receive material required to perform the maintenance action. The method also constructs a maintenance plan comprising a primary requisition and a secondary requisition by assigning each of the sequence of maintenance actions to one of the primary and secondary requisition. | 08-01-2013 |
20140082417 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING A CORRECTIVE ACTION AS DIAGNOSTIC EVIDENCE - Methods, systems and computing devices are provided for using a completed corrective action as evidence of a fault. The methods, systems and computing devices receive equipment status evidence and determine an equipment fault based on the equipment status evidence. The methods, systems and computing devices also create and rank a list of potential failure modes based at least in part on the determined equipment fault, recommend a corrective action to correct the equipment fault based at least in part on the ranking of the potential failure modes and receiving additional equipment status evidence indicating that the recommended corrective action failed to correct the equipment fault. The methods, systems and computing devices then associate a detection probability and a false negative rate with the failed corrective action to create additional status evidence, and re-rank the list of potential failure modes for subsequent performance based on the additional status evidence. | 03-20-2014 |
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20090035455 | Adhesive bleed prevention method and product produced from same - A method of preventing adhesive bleed onto the metal (e.g., gold) surfaces of a plurality of electrical conductors (e.g., wire-bond pads) positioned on a dielectric substrate when positioning an electronic component onto the dielectric substrate and electrically coupling (e.g., wire-bonding) the component to the metal surfaces. The method includes contacting the metal surfaces with a chemical composition which comprises a minor amount of a surface active agent (e.g., a thiol) and the remainder substantially being a non-reactive solvent (e.g., methanol). A circuitized substrate produced using this method is also provided. | 02-05-2009 |
20090092353 | Method of making circuitized substrate with internal optical pathway - A circuitized substrate (e.g., PCB) including an internal optical pathway as part thereof such that the substrate is capable of transmitting and/or receiving both electrical and optical signals. The substrate includes an angular reflector on one of the cladding layers such that optical signals passing through the optical core will impinge on the angled reflecting surfaces of the angular reflector and be reflected up through an opening (including one with optically transparent material therein), e.g., to a second circuitized substrate also having at least one internal optical pathway as part thereof, to thus interconnect the two substrates optically. A method of making the substrate is also provided. | 04-09-2009 |
20090093073 | Method of making circuitized substrate with internal optical pathway using photolithography - A method of making a circuitized substrate (e.g., PCB) including at least one and possibly several internal optical pathways as part thereof such that the resulting substrate will be capable of transmitting and/or receiving both electrical and optical signals. The method involves forming at least one opening between a side of the optical core and an adjacent upstanding member such that the opening is defined by at least one angular sidewall. Light passing through the optical core material (or into the core from above) is reflected off this angular sidewall. The medium (e.g., air) within the opening thus also serves as a reflecting medium due to its own reflective index in comparison to that of the adjacent optical core material. The method utilizes many processes used in conventional PCB manufacturing, thereby keeping costs to a minimum. The formed substrate is capable of being both optically and electrically coupled to one or more other substrates possessing similar capabilities, thereby forming an electro-optical assembly of such substrates. | 04-09-2009 |
20090109624 | Circuitized substrate with internal cooling structure and electrical assembly utilizing same - An electrical assembly which includes a circuitized substrate including a first plurality of dielectric and electrically conductive circuit layers alternatively oriented in a stacked orientation, a thermal cooling structure bonded to one of the dielectric layers and at least one electrical component mounted on the circuitized substrate. The circuitized substrate includes a plurality of electrically conductive and thermally conductive thru-holes located therein, selected ones of the thermally conductive thru-holes thermally coupled to the electrical component(s) and extending through the first plurality of dielectric and electrically conductive circuit layers and being thermally coupled to the thermal cooling structure, each of these selected ones of thermally conductive thru-holes providing a thermal path from the electrical component to the thermal cooling structure during assembly operation. The thermal cooling structure is adapted for having cooling fluid pass there-through during operation of the assembly. A method of making the substrate is also provided. | 04-30-2009 |
20090241332 | Circuitized substrate and method of making same - A circuitized substrate and method of making same in which a first plurality of holes are formed within two bonded dielectric layers and then made conductive, e.g., plated. The substrate also includes third and fourth dielectric layers bonded to the first and second with a plurality of continuous electrically conductive thru holes extending through all four dielectric layers. Conductive paste is positioned within the thru holes for providing electrical connections between desired conductive layers of the substrate and outer layers as well. A circuitized substrate assembly and method of making same are also provided. | 10-01-2009 |
20120069531 | CONDUCTING PASTE FOR DEVICE LEVEL INTERCONNECTS - A conducting paste and method of forming the paste for device level interconnection. The conducting paste contains metal loading in the range 80-95% that is useful for making five micron device level interconnects. The conducting paste is made by mixing two different conducting pastes, each paste maintaining its micro level individual rich region in the mixed paste even after final curing. One paste contains at least one low melting point alloy and the other paste contains noble metal fillers such as gold or silver flakes. In general, average flake size below five micron is suitable for five micron interconnects. However, 1 micron or smaller silver flakes and an LMP mixture is preferred for five micron interconnects. The amount of LMP based paste in the final mixture is preferably 20-50% by weight. The nano micro paste embodiment shows good electrical yield (81%) and low contact resistance. | 03-22-2012 |
20130033827 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVE (ECA) FOR MULTILAYER DEVICE INTERCONNECTS - A multilayer capable electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) mixture for connecting multilevel Z-axis interconnects and a method of forming the ECA for connecting multilevel Z-axis interconnects. The multilayer capable ECA contains a mixture of constituent components that allow the paste to be adapted to specific requirements wherein the method of making a circuitized substrate assembly in which two or more subassemblies having potentially disparate coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE) are aligned and Z-axis interconnection are created during bonding. The metallurgies of the conductors, and those of a multilayer capable conductive paste, are effectively mixed and the flowable interim dielectric used between the mating subassemblies flows to engage and surround the conductor coupling. | 02-07-2013 |
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20120165314 | SUBSTITUTED 4-AMINO-PYRROLOTRIAZINE DERIVATIVES USEFUL FOR TREATING HYPER-PROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS AND DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH ANGIOGENESIS - This invention relates to novel pyrrozolotriazine compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and the use of those compounds and compositions for the prevention and/or treatment of hyper-proliferative disorders and diseases associated with angiogenesis. | 06-28-2012 |
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