Hydroelectric control valve for remote locations

• US 9,920,886 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2017
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: David John Kusko, Gabor Vecseri, Lerner, Daniel Maurice
• Original Assignee: David John Kusko, Gabor Vecseri, Lerner, Daniel Maurice
• Inventors: Kusko, David John, Vecseri, Gabor, Lerner, Daniel Maurice
• Primary Examiner(s): Cahill, Jessica
• Application Number:
  US15/407,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20170152995A1
• Time in Patent Office: 427 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/1245 with more than one valve
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/1635 for rotating valves
• CPC Class Codes: F16K 31/42 by means of electrically-actuated members in the supply or discharge conduits of the fluid motor F16K31/40 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F17D 5/06 using electric or acoustic means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/86485 Line condition change responsive release of valve

Abstract

A hydroelectric control valve (HCV) for a fluid pipeline including an inlet and outlet section attached to a pipeline wherein fluid flows into and out of the HCV that comprises a bell section and a seat reservoir section which are both capped, where the bell section and the seat reservoir section are aligned with each other and are also perpendicular to fluid flowing through the pipeline. An electrical poppet channel is attached to the bell section, such that the bell section includes a bell relief channel in fluid communication with an outlet section and also a separate hydroelectric poppet channel in communication with a locating needle head as well as including a turbine and turbine channel where the turbine channel connects the input section and the seat reservoir and where the seat reservoir section includes a seat reservoir relief channel also in fluid communication with the output section.

Claims

1. A hydroelectric control valve (HCV) for a fluid pipeline comprising;

four pipe sections forming a cross-like pattern with an inlet and outlet section attached to a pipeline wherein fluid flows into and out of said HCV;

a bell reservoir section and a seat reservoir section that are both capped, wherein said bell reservoir section and said seat reservoir section are in line with each other and are also perpendicular to fluid flow through said pipeline;

wherein within an input section, an electrical activation channel is attached to said bell reservoir section, such that said bell reservoir section includes both a bell relief channel in fluid communication with said outlet section and also a separate hydraulic poppet channel;

the input section further including a deactivation channel for a turbine together with a locating needle head and said deactivation channel connects said input section and said seat reservoir section;

wherein said seat reservoir section includes a seat reservoir relief channel also in fluid communication with said output section;

wherein within said electrical activation channel or a main flow channel is a pressure sensor and/or a flow sensor that monitors pressure and/or flow creating a data-stream of said fluid within said pipeline;

and wherein hydroelectric poppet flow within said hydraulic poppet channel is not assisted by the addition of an inline pump and wherein maximum movement of a locating needle head urges a bell to laterally move across said pipeline thereby controlling flow of fluids through said pipeline and wherein a self-cleaning screening mechanism lies in a porthole allowing for access to entry into one or more said electrical activation channel, said hydraulic poppet channel, and/or the activation channel.