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公开(公告)号:US11874077B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-16
申请号:US17959237
申请日:2022-10-03
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Travis Watkins , Jeffery R. Barnes , Daniel Szabo , Cody R. Montoya
CPC classification number: F28G1/04 , B08B9/043 , B08B9/0433 , B65G43/04 , F28G3/163 , F28G15/003 , F28G15/04
Abstract: An apparatus for sensing an obstruction within a tube being cleaned and repetitively advancing and retracting a flexible high pressure fluid cleaning lance within the tube is disclosed. The apparatus monitors drive roller/belt position and actual hose position, compares the belt (expected travel) to hose position (travel) and generates a position difference, or mismatch. If the mismatch is above a predetermined level, the drive motor direction is reversed for a predetermined time interval, and forward operation restored after the predetermined time interval; and the sequence of repeating the reversing and restoring operations is continued until the position difference or mismatch no longer exceeds the predetermined difference threshold.
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公开(公告)号:US12214389B2
公开(公告)日:2025-02-04
申请号:US18238935
申请日:2023-08-28
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Joseph A. Schneider , Adam Christopher Markham , Scott Howell , Daniel Szabo , Cody Montoya , Jeffery R. Barnes , Cooper Hanley
Abstract: A system and an apparatus for positioning a plurality of flexible cleaning lances through tubes penetrating a tube sheet of a heat exchanger tube sheet, includes a smart lance tractor drive, a controller, and a tumble box connected to the controller operable to generate and/or distribute electrical power to the AC induction sensor from an air pressure source, supply electrical power to the controller and distribute pneumatic power to pneumatic motors for positioning the tractor drive on the positioner frame. The smart tractor drive includes sensors for detection of mismatch between expected and actual lance positions, sense lance insertion distance and lance removal and provide automated drive reversal operation to remove blockages within tubes being cleaned.
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公开(公告)号:US11517947B2
公开(公告)日:2022-12-06
申请号:US17004934
申请日:2020-08-27
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Joseph A. Schneider , Adam Christopher Markham , Scott Howell , Daniel Szabo , Cody Montoya , Jeffery R. Barnes , Cooper Hanley
Abstract: A system and an apparatus for positioning a plurality of flexible cleaning lances through tubes penetrating a tube sheet of a heat exchanger tube sheet, includes a smart lance tractor drive, a controller, and a tumble box connected to the controller operable to generate and/or distribute electrical power to the AC induction sensor from an air pressure source, supply electrical power to the controller and distribute pneumatic power to pneumatic motors for positioning the tractor drive on the positioner frame. The smart tractor drive includes sensors for detection of mismatch between expected and actual lance positions, sense lance insertion distance and lance removal and provide automated drive reversal operation to remove blockages within tubes being cleaned.
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公开(公告)号:US11460257B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-04
申请号:US16663149
申请日:2019-10-24
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Travis Watkins , Jeffery R. Barnes , Daniel Szabo , Cody R. Montoya
Abstract: An apparatus for sensing an obstruction within a tube being cleaned and repetitively advancing and retracting a flexible high pressure fluid cleaning lance within the tube is disclosed. The apparatus monitors drive roller/belt position and actual hose position, compares the belt (expected travel) to hose position (travel) and generates a position difference, or mismatch. If the mismatch is above a predetermined level, the drive motor direction is reversed for a predetermined time interval, and forward operation restored after the predetermined time interval; and the sequence of repeating the reversing and restoring operations is continued until the position difference or mismatch no longer exceeds the predetermined difference threshold.
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公开(公告)号:US11441856B2
公开(公告)日:2022-09-13
申请号:US16662762
申请日:2019-10-24
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Timothy Schneider , Adam Markham , Joseph A. Schneider , Scott Howell , Daniel Szabo , Cody R. Montoya
Abstract: A system and an apparatus for positioning a plurality of flexible cleaning lances includes a frame removably fastened parallel a tube sheet of a heat exchanger. The apparatus includes a smart lance tractor drive for advancing and retracting one or more lance hoses through one or more lance guide tubes into tubes penetrating through the heat exchanger tube sheet, a controller, one or more AC induction sensors on the tubes operable to sense holes in the tube sheet, and a tumble box connected to the controller operable to generate electrical power to the AC induction sensor from an air pressure source, supply electrical power to the controller and distribute pneumatic power to pneumatic motors for positioning the tractor drive on the positioner frame. The tractor drive includes sensors for detection of mismatch between expected and actual lance positions and automated drive reversal operation to remove blockages within tubes being cleaned.
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公开(公告)号:US12123712B2
公开(公告)日:2024-10-22
申请号:US18378012
申请日:2023-10-09
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Daniel Szabo
CPC classification number: G01B7/003 , H04L5/0005 , B08B3/02 , B08B2203/0247
Abstract: A system for distinguishing target metal objects from each other in close proximity to each other. The method includes transmitting a first sinusoid signal via a first transmit coil to a first receive coil in close proximity to the first transmit coil; transmitting a second sinusoidal signal at a second frequency and amplitude different from the first frequency and amplitude to a second receive coil arranged in close proximity to the second transmit coil and in close proximity to the first receive coil such that received signals in the first and second receive coils include first and second frequency signals from the other of the first and second transmit coils. The received signals are separated via frequency domain multiplexing. The signals are compared to detect a presence of the target having a signal magnitude different from the first received signal and the received second signal and a known reference point.
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公开(公告)号:US11781852B2
公开(公告)日:2023-10-10
申请号:US17102773
申请日:2020-11-24
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Daniel Szabo
CPC classification number: G01B7/003 , H04L5/0005 , B08B3/02 , B08B2203/0247
Abstract: A system for distinguishing target metal objects from each other in close proximity to each other. The method includes transmitting a first sinusoid signal via a first transmit coil to a first receive coil in close proximity to the first transmit coil; transmitting a second sinusoidal signal at a second frequency and amplitude different from the first frequency and amplitude to a second receive coil arranged in close proximity to the second transmit coil and in close proximity to the first receive coil such that received signals in the first and second receive coils include first and second frequency signals from the other of the first and second transmit coils. The received signals are separated via frequency domain multiplexing. The signals are compared to detect a presence of the target having a signal magnitude different from the first received signal and the received second signal and a known reference point.
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公开(公告)号:US11738378B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-29
申请号:US18075186
申请日:2022-12-05
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Joseph A. Schneider , Adam Christopher Markham , Scott Howell , Daniel Szabo , Cody Montoya , Jeffery R. Barnes , Cooper Hanley
CPC classification number: B08B9/0433 , B08B9/047 , F28G1/163 , F28G15/04 , B08B9/04 , F28G15/003 , F28G15/08
Abstract: A system and an apparatus for positioning a plurality of flexible cleaning lances through tubes penetrating a tube sheet of a heat exchanger tube sheet, includes a smart lance tractor drive, a controller, and a tumble box connected to the controller operable to generate and/or distribute electrical power to the AC induction sensor from an air pressure source, supply electrical power to the controller and distribute pneumatic power to pneumatic motors for positioning the tractor drive on the positioner frame. The smart tractor drive includes sensors for detection of mismatch between expected and actual lance positions, sense lance insertion distance and lance removal and provide automated drive reversal operation to remove blockages within tubes being cleaned.
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公开(公告)号:US20220163311A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-26
申请号:US17102773
申请日:2020-11-24
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Daniel Szabo
Abstract: A system for distinguishing target metal objects from each other in close proximity to each other. The method includes transmitting a first sinusoid signal via a first transmit coil to a first receive coil in close proximity to the first transmit coil; transmitting a second sinusoidal signal at a second frequency and amplitude different from the first frequency and amplitude to a second receive coil arranged in close proximity to the second transmit coil and in close proximity to the first receive coil such that received signals in the first and second receive coils include first and second frequency signals from the other of the first and second transmit coils. The received signals are separated via frequency domain multiplexing. The signals are compared to detect a presence of the target having a signal magnitude different from the first received signal and the received second signal and a known reference point.
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公开(公告)号:US20220062925A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-03
申请号:US17411327
申请日:2021-08-25
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Douglas E. Wright , Daniel Szabo
IPC: B05B3/04
Abstract: A rotary nozzle having a rotating shaft operating within a cylindrical housing is balanced by allowing passage of a small amount of pressurized fluid to be bled to an area between the outside of the opposite end of the shaft and the inside of the housing where the fluid force acts axially in an opposing direction upon the shaft to balance the axial inlet force exerted by the pressurized fluid. The balance of axial forces is self-regulating by controlling escape of the fluid through a tapered or frusto-conical region between the shaft and housing. A plurality of centrifugal weight segments around the inlet end of the shaft are thrust outwardly against the cylindrical housing to retard rotational speed while pressurized fluid around the centrifugal weight segments provides a fluid bearing between the weights and the housing.
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