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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8087159 | Tube expander for heat exchanger A tube expander is configured so that only the slide body that is worn down can be removed from the slide unit means and a new slide body is attached through the fastening means easily at low cost. The tube expander is configured by a support column formed on a base... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7357188 | Mono-diameter wellbore casing A mono-diameter wellbore casing is formed by radially expanding a first tubular liner off of a mandrel into contact with a second tubular liner. The first and second tubular liners are positioned within the wellbore in an overlapping relationship. The overlapping po... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7322090 | Explosive tube removal device A explosive device is disclosed for collapsing an expansion-fit metal tube from within a hole of a metal plate of a boiler or the like. The device includes a connecting rod inserted into the tube and extending outwardly from top and bottom ends of the tube. The port... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7314343 | Miniature manipulator for servicing the interior of nuclear steam generator tubes A manipulator for servicing tubes extending through a tube sheet having three major components: a base member, a block member, and a foot member. The base member has a holder for supporting tooling or inspection devices. The base member also has at least one gripper... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305756 | Tube extracting device The invention is related to a tube extracting device for compressing a tube end extended from a conventional drum of a boiler to remove the tube. The device includes a housing comprised of an outer clamping plate and an inner clamping plate pivotally connected by a ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7269942 | Wall flow particulate trap system A wall-flow particulate trap system regenerated by reverse flow of filtered exhaust gas through porous walls of a plurality of tubular passages is disclosed. The system includes a particulate trap having an inlet and an outlet, the particulate trap adapted to receiv... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7240728 | Expandable tubulars with a radial passage and wall portions with different wall thicknesses A tubular liner including a first tubular portion, a second tubular portion, and an intermediate tapered tubular portion coupled to, and positioned between, the first and second tubular portions. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237338 | Method for manufacturing heat-dissipating device with isothermal plate assembly of predetermined shape A heat-dissipating device with an isothermal plate assembly of predetermined shape and method for manufacturing the same are proposed. An upper plate and a lower plate with predetermined shape are provided and an accommodation groove is defined therein. A flattened ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7207179 | Method of connecting heat transfer pipe and capillary tube A connecting method and structure is provided to reliably ensure the compressive strength of the joint between a heat transfer pipe and a capillary tube when connecting the capillary tube to the heat transfer pipe by direct brazing. In the connection structure betwe... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7194800 | Internal tube extracting device with a cylindrical collapsing wedge The invention is related to a tube extracting device for removing a tube from a conventional drum of a boiler or heat exchanger. The device is positioned inside the drum. The device includes a hollow cylindrical wedge which cylindrically collapses a tube inwardly up... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7182142 | Downhole apparatus Apparatus (10) for facilitating coupling and cementing of downhole tubulars (12, 28) comprises a tubing section (12, 10) for use in lining a bore. The tubing section has upper and lower ends and defines a tubing wall having cement outlets (20... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7172027 | Expanding tubing A method of expanding tubing downhole comprises providing a section of expandable tubing of a first diameter, and axially compressing the tubing to induce buckling, such that the buckled portion describes a larger second diameter. The resulting diametric expansion m... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168606 | Method of mitigating inner diameter reduction of welded joints Aspects of the present invention provide methods and apparatus for connecting two tubulars using a welding process with reduced inner diameter flash. The method includes connecting an end of a first expandable tubular to an end of a second expandable tubular using a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168497 | Downhole sealing A method of providing a downhole seal, such as a packer, in a drilled bore between inner tubing and outer tubing comprises: providing an intermediate tubing section defining a seal arrangement for engaging with the inner tubing; and radially plastically deforming th... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168143 | External tube deforming extraction device A tube extraction device which facilitates the removal of a tube from a tube hole in a drum. The tube extraction device comprises a housing which is mounted over an exterior surface of the drum. The housing has an opening which receives a removed part of the tube. A... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7146716 | External tube extraction device with a cylindrical collapsing wedge The invention is related to a tube extracting device for removing a tube from a conventional drum of a boiler or heat exchanger. The device includes a wedge which is driven into a tube hole between the tube outer wall and the hole in the drum that the tube is in. Th... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7121131 | Water cooled panel and forming method A bending method for producing a coil using a thick wall pipe, comprising a simultaneous hot bending and pressing of the pipe by which it is possible to obtain a coil without welded 180° elbows since the return sections are integral part of the pipe. ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117584 | Heat exchanger tube expanding apparatus A tube expanding apparatus includes mandrels, each mandrel having a billet on a leading end; a reciprocating actuator for supporting rear ends of the mandrels, the reciprocating actuator being supported to reciprocate in an axial direction of hairpin tube straight p... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7096699 | Multiple bladder internal tube expansion and method Method and apparatus for the production of a plurality of uniform expansions of a tube in a plurality of tube supports simultaneously. A plurality of tubes are expanded in apertures of tube supports in a repetitive manner, each tube being expanded into the plurality... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093360 | Method of removing boiler tubes Boiler tubes are removed from a boiler vessel without damaging the vessel by severing the boiler tube near the exterior periphery of the vessel, and using a piloted rotary cutting tool fixtured with respect to the longitudinal axis of the severed boiler tube to remo... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7073583 | Method and apparatus for expanding tubing downhole Aspects of the invention relate to apparatus and methods for remedial and repair operations downhole. Certain embodiments of apparatus include a lightweight expandable member (22) that can be radially expanded to increased its inner and outer diameters using ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7073406 | Screw and nut transmission and cable attached to the screw A cable or another longilinear transmission component is set into the center of an axial cavity of a screw belonging to a screw and nut movement conversion unit. By means of this arrangement, bending moments exerted on the screw between the point of attachment of th... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7065995 | Expansion tool for expanding tube ends and pressing device comprising such an expansion tool The invention relates to an expansion tool for expanding tube ends. The expansion tool has an expansion mandrel and a counter-support, said expansion mandrel consisting of a tow-bar and an elastic rubber expansion element surrounding it. The counter-support supports... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063142 | Method of applying an axial force to an expansion cone A method of applying an axial force to a first piston positioned within a first piston chamber including applying an axial force to the first piston using a second piston positioned within the first piston chamber. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7044221 | Apparatus for coupling a tubular member to a preexisting structure An apparatus for coupling a tubular member to a preexisting structure. ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040396 | Apparatus for releasably coupling two elements An apparatus for coupling two elements including an outer tubular member defining one or more outer tubular member slots, an inner tubular member defining one or more inner tubular member slots positioned within the outer tubular member, and a coupling assembly for ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7040015 | Tube finning machine and method of use This invention relates to a tube finning machine (10), and in particular to a machine capable of fitting several fins (26) to one or more tubes (26) at the same time, the assembled finned tube being suitable for heat exchange applications. Accor... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7004257 | Apparatus and methods for separating and joining tubulars in a wellbore The present invention provides methods and apparatus for cutting tubulars in a wellbore. In one aspect of the invention, a cutting tool having radially disposed rolling element cutters is provided for insertion into a wellbore to a predetermined depth where a tubula... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000820 | Apparatus for brazing a heat exchanger An apparatus for brazing a heat exchanger, in particular a flat-tube heat exchanger, comprising a block of flat tubes and corrugated fins. The apparatus comprises a brazing frame that accommodates a tube-fin block within itself and which has two brazing bars arrange... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6997266 | Expandable hanger and packer A first tubular is disposed coaxially within a portion of a second, larger tubular. A portion of the first tubular is expanded into frictional contact with the second tubular, thereby creating a liner and a hanger. In one embodiment, a pattern of grooves and profile... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6978527 | Fuel injector removal tool Provided is a fuel injector remover for removing a fuel injector from a cylinder head wherein the fuel injector is located within a counterbore of the cylinder head. The remover includes a primer mover having a piston defining a central bore. A snout portion is atta... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6976539 | Tubing anchor A method of installing a liner in a drilled bore below a section of bore previously lined with casing comprises the steps of: running a length of liner into the bore such that at least an upper end of the liner is positioned in overlapping relation with at least a l... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6976301 | Finned tube with vortex generators for a heat exchanger A system for and method of manufacturing a finned tube for a heat exchanger is disclosed herein. A continuous fin strip is provided with at one pair of vortex generators. A tube is rotated and linearly displaced while the continuous fin strip with vortex generators ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6971450 | Completion apparatus and methods for use in wellbores An apparatus and methods for preventing the accumulation of unwanted materials in an enlarged inner diameter portion of a casing or housing. In one aspect of the invention, a sleeve is disposed in the housing to isolate an annular area defined by the outer surface s... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6966370 | Apparatus for actuating an annular piston An apparatus comprising a first tubular member; a second tubular member positioned within and coupled to the first tubular member; a first annular piston chamber defined by the space between the first and second tubular members; an annular piston movably coupled to ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6935429 | Flash welding process for field joining of tubulars for expandable applications The present invention generally relates to methods of connecting two expandable tubulars. In one aspect, the method includes flash welding the ends of the expandable tubulars together. Thereafter, the connected tubulars are lowered into the wellbore for expansion. T... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6932161 | Profiled encapsulation for use with instrumented expandable tubular completions The present invention provides an encapsulation for housing instrumentation lines, control lines, or instruments downhole. In one use, the encapsulation resides between an expandable downhole tool, such as an expandable sand screen, and the wall of the wellbore. The... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6928833 | Finned tube for heat exchangers, heat exchanger, process for producing heat exchanger finned tube, and process for fabricating heat exchanger A heat exchanger finned tube 10 for use in fabricating a heat exchanger 1 useful as the evaporator for refrigerators or the like wherein a hydrocarbon refrigerant is used. Two tube insertion holes spaced apart from each other are formed in each of plat... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6923261 | Apparatus and method for expanding a tubular A method of isolating a section of downhole tubing comprises: running a length of expandable tubing (20) into a tubing-lined borehole (12, 14) and positioning the expandable tubing (20) across a section of tubing to be isolated; deforming at lea... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6920935 | Expandable downhole tubing A tubing coupling method is provided. In one aspect, the method comprises providing a length of expandable tubing and a length of larger diameter non-expanding tubing, connecting an end portion of the expandable tubing to an end portion of the non-expanding tubing, ... | 07/26/2005 |
