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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,038, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GD ENERGY PRODUCTS LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Fluid end with transition surface geometry" was invented by Vadim Kachkovskiy (Spring Mills, Pa.) and James Black (Sperry, Okla.).

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 reciprocating pump. At least one of the bores includes a first tapered portion and a second tapered portion. The first tapered portion inc...