US Patent Issued to GD ENERGY PRODUCTS on Aug. 18 for "Fluid end with transition surface geometry" (Oklahoma, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,036, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GD ENERGY PRODUCTS LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Fluid end with transition surface geometry" was invented by Konner Casey Kay (Broken Arrow, Okla.), Paul Douglas Cary (Sapulpa, Okla.) and Vadim Kachkovskiy (Spring Mills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid end of a reciprocating pump includes multiple bores formed therein, and adjacent bores intersect each other. The intersection of two adjacent bores forms an intersection corner, which is where a concentration of high stress occurs during operation of the pump. A novel geometrical shape or geometry of the intersection corner reduces the concentr...