US 11,982,391 B2
Percussive pressure damper
David Paul Schenker, Garden City, ID (US); and Patrick Edwin Johnston, Boise, ID (US)
Assigned to Versus LLC, Garden City, ID (US)
Filed by David Paul Schenker, Garden City, ID (US); and Patrick Edwin Johnston, Boise, ID (US)
Filed on Jan. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/576,891.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/137,701, filed on Jan. 14, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0290790 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. F16L 55/027 (2006.01)
CPC F16L 55/02718 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fluid pressure damper, comprising:
a tube having an entrance port, an exit port axially displaced from the entrance port, an axial flow channel extending from the entrance port to the exit port, a plurality of expansion chambers each extending radially from and in fluid communication with the axial flow channel, and an outer wall enclosing the axial flow channel and the expansion chambers;
each expansion chamber enclosed by an inner surface of the outer wall and by a plurality of internal walls that each extend from the axial flow channel to the outer wall;
wherein the outer wall is integrally formed to each of the inner walls; and
wherein the expansion chambers comprise a plurality of groups of axially stacked expansion chambers, each group of axially stacked expansion chambers axially offset from and overlapping an adjacent one of the groups of axially stacked expansion chambers.