Additively manufactured components for downhole operations
AssigneeBaker Hughes, A Ge Company, LLC
InventorRyan P. Semple
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Abstract
Downhole tools for use in downhole operations and electrical submersible pumping systems having an additively manufactured first part including a first layer having a first predetermined material property and a second layer having a second predetermined material property, wherein the first and second layers are layers of an integral piece and the first predetermined material property is different from the second predetermined material property and a second part configured to rotationally engage with the additively manufactured first part. One of the first part and the second part is rotated relative to the other of the first part and the second part in operation.
Claims13
A downhole electrical submersible pumping system comprising:
- an electric motor;
- a seal section;
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- a pump section having a bearing system, the bearing system comprising a bearing having:
- an additively manufactured bearing housing being a single piece having a first predetermined material property at an interior surface and a second predetermined material property at an exterior surface, wherein a material property of the bearing housing transitions from the first predetermined material property at the interior surface to the second predetermined material property at the exterior surface in a radial direction and the first predetermined material property is different from the second predetermined material property;
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- a shaft configured to rotationally engage with the additively manufactured bearing housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.