This page presents examples of compliant mechanisms in action across various industries, including oil and gas, automotive, aerospace, robotics, and biomedical sectors. The table of contents below makes it easy to navigate this page.

Oil and Gas industry

Compliant Mechanisms Technology could be used to produce fracking plugs that: 1) have only two mechanical parts; 2) have no pins, no revolute joints, no springs, etc.; 3) have an increased resistance to contamination and are maintenance-free; 4) are manufactured from a range of materials such as plastics or metals, including ones that dissolve at will and that withstand downhole fluids such as brine for several hours; 5) are capable of expanding through a large range of casing sizes; and 6) are less expensive than current plugs by one order of magnitude.

Other industries

Compliant mechanisms have already been used in different industries such as airplane manufacturing, automotive, and biomedical; in addition, they have proven robustness and practicality.

The photographs below illustrate some of their uses in the automotive, aerospace, robotics and biomedical industries. The furthest most pictures show some of the current plugs used in the O&G industry, which could be improved with compliant mechanisms technology.

This video shows an example of our team’s experience designing Compliant Mechanisms

Patents related to Deployable Structures(DS) and Compliant Mechanisms (CM)

Here are some of the patents generated by Julio Guerrero based on DSd and CMs. The purpose of this section is to highlight our expertise in this technology and its potential applications across various industries.

1. Anchoring system and method (Link)
2. Apparatus and Method For Sand Consolidation (Link)
3. Open hole tractor with tracks (Link)
4. Expandable structure for deployment in a well (Link)
5. System and methods for actuating reversibly expandable structures (Link)
6. Logging tool deployment systems and methods with pressure compensation (Link)
7. Logging tool deployment systems and methods without pressure compensation (Link)
8. Mechanism that assists tractoring on uniform and non-uniform surfaces (Link)
9. Wellsite systems utilizing deployable structure (Link)
10. Method and Apparatus for Deploying and Using Self-Locating Devices (Link)