Magneco/metrel, Inc.

Autoliv Asp, Incorporated

Motorola Corporation

Daniel Snyder

Michael W Anderson

Lara Binz

Eric Boring

David W Schneider

Patrick G Jarboe

Jeremy J Snyder

Dominic Pautler

Alberto J Reyes

Sleiman N Chamoun

Michael A Macocha

Karen S Ramondetta

A desander assembly retrievably positionable in a tubing string including a fishing neck, a bypass tool, a stop assembly configured to retrievably mate with a portion of the tubing string, an outer tubular member, and an inner tubular member. The outer tubular member has at least one aperture extending. The inner tubular member is positioned in the outer tubular member to form an annulus and so a bore of the inner tubular member is in fluid communication with the bypass tool. The inner tubular member has at least one spiral protrusion extending outwardly from the sidewall to cooperate with an interior side of the outer tubular member to form a spiral channel. The bore of the inner tubular member receives reservoir fluid that passes into the annulus formed between the inner tubular member and the outer tubular member via the apertures of the outer tubular member.

Desander assembly for plunger lift system

A bushing removal tool for track bars on trucks. A male cup defines a seat adapted to contain the head of a bolt. The male inner end conforms substantially to the shape of a bushing such that it can cup the bushing. A female cup seats against the end of the track bar thus having a diameter greater than male inner end and adapted to provide a cup force axially in the positive direction against the track end. A ball bearing assembly seats within the female cup. A nut downstream of the ball bearing abuts the outer surface of the ball bearing attached to a threaded end of the rod end of the bolt, wherein upon rotation/operation of the nut, a pulling force of the bolt is applied to thereby pull out the bushing from the track bar end.

On-vehicle track bar bushing removal tool for trucks

A sand collector including a diverter section and a filter section. The diverter section has a tubular portion with at least one aperture extending therethrough and at least one collector extending outwardly therefrom to cooperate with an exterior side of the tubular portion to form a channel in which solids traveling on the exterior side of the tubular portion from the upper end toward the lower end are guided to the aperture. The filter section having a tubular portion with an upper end, a lower end, and a sidewall extending between the upper end and the lower end. The filter section having at least one aperture extending through the sidewall, the upper end of the filter section extending from the lower end of the collector section and the lower end of the filter section being closed and connectable to at least one of another sucker rod and an upper end of a pump assembly.

Sand collector for sucker rod pump

A sand collector including a diverter section and a filter section. The diverter section having a tubular portion with at least one aperture extending therethrough and at least one collector extending outwardly therefrom to cooperate with an exterior side of the tubular portion to form a channel in which solids traveling on the exterior side of the tubular portion from the upper end toward the lower end are guided to the aperture. The filter section having a tubular portion with an upper end, a lower end, and a sidewall extending between the upper end and the lower end. The filter section having at least one aperture extending through the sidewall, the upper end of the filter section extending from the lower end of the collector section and the lower end of the filter section being closed and connectable to at least one of another sucker rod and an upper end of a pump assembly.

A method of providing a chemically inert concrete includes the steps of providing and mixing an aqueous colloidal silica dispersion with a quantity of glass particles. The chemically inert concrete includes, based on dry weight, about 50% to about 95% by weight of the glass particles and about 3% to about 40% by weight of the colloidal silica particles. The chemically inert concrete is substantially or totally free of Group I and Group II metal oxides, exclusive of the glass particles, and is substantially or totally free of cement.

Method of providing chemically inert concrete

A method of making a refractory article having excellent high-temperature thermal shock resistance and creep resistance is provided. The method includes the step of providing a refractory composition primarily composed of chamotte having controlled particle sizes. The refractory composition may also include mullite, fused silica, calcined alumina and microsilica having controlled particle sizes, and further includes an aqueous colloidal silica binder. The refractory composition is then formed into a refractory article, which is dried and hardened.

Method of making refractory article resistant to high temperature shock and creep

A refractory kiln car formed using a refractory composition has excellent resistance to high-temperature thermal shock and creep. The refractory composition is based primarily on chamotte having controlled particle sizes, and may also include mullite, fused silica, calcined alumina and microsilica, having controlled particle sizes. The refractory composition includes an aqueous colloidal silica binder that provides excellent castability and binding between the ingredients following drying.

Refractory kiln car resistant to high temperature shock and creep

A refractory composition yields refractory articles having excellent resistance to high-temperature thermal shock and creep. The refractory composition is based primarily on chamotte having controlled particle sizes, and may also include mullite, fused silica, calcined alumina and microsilica, having controlled particle sizes. The refractory composition includes an aqueous colloidal silica binder that provides excellent castability and binding between the ingredients following drying.

Refractory composition resistant to high temperature shock and creep

A chemically inert concrete composition includes, based on dry weight, about 50% to about 95% by weight glass particles and about 3% to about 40% by weight colloidal silica particles. Optional additional chemically inert ingredients can be included in amounts of about 3% to about 40% by weight. The concrete composition is substantially or totally free of Group I and Group II metal oxides, exclusive of the glass particles, and is substantially or totally free of cement.

Chemically inert concrete composition

An airbag cushion has a deployment tube connected at its inner end to a backing plate securing an inflator and at its outer end to a cushion-shaping enclosure. The periphery of the cushion-shaping enclosure is attached there about to a boundary wall which extends inward to the backing plate at a location surrounding the inner end of the deployment tube. The boundary wall defines an aspirated-air chamber surrounding the tube. As the tube and cushion-shaping enclosure are inflated, the enclosure pulls the boundary wall out of the canister creating a vacuum in the aspirated-air chamber. A one-way valve in the backing plate passes aspirated air into the aspirated-air chamber. A port connects the cushion-shaping enclosure to the aspirated-air chamber to pressurize the aspirated-air chamber at the end of inflation. The one-way valve blocks escape of the pressure.

Airbag cushion and mounting therefor

A trough-shaped airbag canister and module assembly has an integral diffuser and diverter for permitting simultaneous deployment of a head/torso airbag and a knee airbag. The integral diffuser and diverter in the canister diffuses a first portion of inflation gases from an inflator to a mouth of a head/torso airbag and diffuses and diverts a second portion of the inflation gases through a kneebag inflation port in a sidewall of the canister and into a mouth of a knee airbag.

Integral head/torso airbag and knee airbag restraint system

A method of selecting device (14-16, 18-24, 28-30) threshold voltages for high speed and low overall power involves identifying (42) the critical paths by predetermined timing criteria. All transistors have an initial, typically high, threshold voltage (40). Transistors outside the critical paths keep the initial high threshold voltages to minimize static power drain. The transistors in the critical path are selected (43) according to a predetermined sorting function to have a low threshold voltage and thereby switch faster. Although the lower threshold voltage devices consume more static power in standby mode, the power drain is accepted as a trade-off in favor of increased speed through the critical path. The supply voltage is reduced to minimize dynamic power. The integrated circuit is thus optimized to run at a higher frequency with lower overall power consumption.

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